辞旧迎新之际，人们装扮形形色色的杉树庆祝节日，然而在短暂庆祝之后，大部分装饰都被当作垃圾丢弃了。
On the occasion of welcoming the new year, people decorate various cedar trees to celebrate. However after the celebration, most of the decorations are discarded as garbage.
就在这个冬天，12月26日，青浦协和35名初、高中学生在美术老师带领下，来到余德耀美术馆参加了“可持续日，种一棵银色杉树”艺术装置活动，用可回收的饮料纸盒“种下一棵树”装点新年。
On Dec. 26th, 35 junior and high school students from SUIS Qingpu, led by art teachers, went to Yuz Museum to participate in the art installation activity of “Sustainability Day, Plant Silver Cedar Trees”. The students used recyclable beverage cartons to “plant” recyclable trees.
学生们将废弃饮料盒剪开、清洗干净，将饮料盒内部银色的铝箔作为独特的艺术材料。经过各种创意折叠和拼接，制作一片片“树叶”。愿孩子们通过这项富有意义的活动，将环保理念“植入”心灵。
The students cut and cleaned the discarded beverage boxes, and used the silver aluminum foil inside as unique art materials. After various creative folding and splicing, pieces of “leaves” were made. May the children “plant” the concept of sustainability into their hearts through this meaningful activity.
作品将在余德耀美术馆陈列至12月31日。展览结束后，由专业回收团队对作品回收循环使用。
The art works will be exhibited at Yuz Museum from December 26th to 31st. After the exhibition, a professional recycling team will recycle the “trees”.
生活中总能够产生很多废旧物品，鼓励同学们尝试将这些物品进行回收，不仅起到环保作用，还能够变废为宝。可回收物再造是当代设计艺术创新的重要方式之一，为学生社会责任感的增强、开拓力的提升和艺术创造力的培养提供了有效的实践方法。“种一棵银色杉树”特别之旅，一个个废弃牛奶纸盒在学生手中，变成了一片片银色树叶，最终成为了一颗闪耀着永恒的“杉树”。本次活动学生学习利用可回收物创造更富有趣味的装置艺术作品，并赋予它们意义，当使用特殊材料进行演绎时，这些碎片化的物品就被再次赋予了生命，直到栩栩如生。
There are always many waste items in daily life. Students are encouraged to try to recycle these items, which not only plays a role in environmental protection, but also turns waste into treasure. Recycling of waste is one of the important ways of contemporary art, which provides effective practical methods for students to enhance their sense of social responsibility, enhance their pioneering power and cultivate artistic creativity. In the special journey of “Planting a Silver Cedar Tree”, the discarded milk cartons were turned into pieces of silver leaves, and finally become”cedar trees”. In this activity, students learned to use recyclables to create more interesting installation art works and give them meaning. When special materials are used for interpretation, these fragmented objects are alive again.
美术老师 刘韵 Art Teacher Ms. Lori Liu
Changing locations away from the school campus can also be an important change that give that little edge to a memory to keep it permanent. If we had made these trees in class, the memory would jostle around with all the other class creations and just become one more indiscernible notch in the fabric of memories that are an education. This makes sense. A change of location provides intrinsic differences of not only the environment, but the feel of an experience. The location provides its own contrast to be emblazoned onto a memory. The wonderful thing about this is many of the ideas learned at the unique location will also become a permanent part of the experience. And this is especially true for the YUZ Museum. It was quite a unique place; both it’s architecture and the progressive, yet whimsical art that it houses. I wish our students had more of an opportunity to explore the exhibits.
在美术馆创作艺术品给了孩子别样的体验与回忆。如果这项作品是在课堂完成的，那对学生而言或许并不能印象深刻。环境对教育、教学有着重要的影响，它本身就能带来一种体验感，成为记忆中突出的部分。正如余德耀美术馆，无论是其独特的建筑构造，还是内部装载的奇妙作品，都使得这趟学习之旅尤为特殊。今后我们将尝试提供学生更多元的探索学习。
美术老师 Art Teacher Mr. Jesse English
学生感言 Students’ Words
我也和许多同学一样，每天都在不那么节制地购买自己想要的每一件物品，几乎不去思考：这些物品用过后，变成废弃物会带给人类赖以生存的地球怎样的伤害。亲历这次活动后，我特别想做一名环保实践的学生：在今后的生活中，只购买自己需要 (need) 的，而不是想要 (want) 的，并多关注如何将校园里的废弃物变得可再利用，或是去创造校园艺术品。
Like many classmates, I buy items that I want in a less controlled manner, and I hardly think about: After these items are used, what kind of damage will they bring to the earth. After experiencing this activity, I especially want to be a student of environmental protection practice: in my future life, I only buy what I need, not what I want, and pay more attention to how to recycle, and use the waste to create art works.
7A 史今 Sophie Shi
我和同学们团结合作，用废牛奶盒，做出了一棵银色的杉树。在生活中我们也要废物利用，爱护环境。
My classmates and I worked together to make a silver cedar tree out of waste milk boxes. In life, we also need to use waste and care for the environment.
6B 李昌元 Ted Li
这次活动给我带来的最大感悟就是，环保与艺术是可以相辅相成的。在活动的前两周，我们在校园里收集使用过的纸质饮料盒，并在活动当天，利用这些“废料”制作独一无二的杉树。用树制作的纸张，最后又被我们用艺术的形式做成了更特别的树，这是一种循环。此次活动也让我对未来生活中的环保有了更多想法。
Environmental protection and art can complement each other. Two weeks before the activity, we collected used paper beverage boxes on campus. Last Saturday we used these “waste materials” to make unique cedar trees. The paper made from trees is finally made into more special trees in the form of art. This is a cycle. This event also gave me more ideas about environmental protection in my future life.
G10 赵书涵 Rebecca Zhao