Green buildings provide a unique opportunity to educate building users about stewardship of the environment - green school buildings provide an even more valuable opportunity to consider the project’s sustainability within an institution’s pedagogical program. SMP collaborated closely with Germantown Friends School (GFS) to conceive and design their sustainable Urban Science Center as a didactic green building with the school’s science curriculum to create a “building that teaches”. Key sustainable strategies include cisterns, green roofs, solar energy, geo-exchange energy, ecological landscape, and a building monitoring system.