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Hey gals, 

Here is my script and concepts.  Hope you all had a good weekend and thanks so much for your help! 

Concepts from book: hotlist, powerpoint

 

As students reflected on the two previous lessons related to recycling during classroom discussion, the consensus revealed landfills are not the ideal solution to our continuing waste problem in America. Moving further along into the recycling unit, the students will combine prior knowledge with an overview of recycling (including what it is, what to recycle, and landfills) to brainstorm better solutions for people in the community to implement in an effort to reduce waste in existing landfills.  Through a teacher led discussion, the three R’s reduce, reuse and recycle will be used as the foundation to the solution. 

The idea of “old made back to new” will be interpreted in terms of recycling in the community, schools and home.  Students will use the safe surfing skills acquired from previous lessons to create a Hotlist of websites that provide easy to do ideas and tips for successfully using the old to new method of reducing waste.  Examples of these websites could be Goodwill and Salvation Army to model reusing old or lightly used items rather than buying new; the teacher and students using the example to brainstorm other websites that express the same principles will discuss the three R’s as well.  Students can work individually or in small groups to create the Holist and PowerPoint presentation that follows.

The PowerPoint presentation will require students to use five or more ideas presented in their Hotlist and create “how to” slides with pictures of authentic student examples of each.  This PowerPoint will be used to collaborate with the urban classroom about reducing waste in the community, schools and home.  The students PowerPoint must include at least one example of each environment.  To conclude this recycling lesson, the students will reflect on all three lessons as a whole through writing or discussion with the teacher for self-evaluation and teacher assessment of the unit goals.