What I will be saying in my Podcast - Also Katelyn will be speaking first, I will be following and Lisa you will be going last.

My Script:
We have been using the computers quit a lot with our Google Maps, our up and coming blog, and researching recycling. This has allowed us to better understand recycling and inform our friends from an urban community about Kalamazoo's recycling and Michigan as a whole. As the students navigate through the Web there is a ton of information they have access to but some that are not appropriate. To allow your child to search safely I decided to come up with a list of Web addresses for them to look through which is also called safe surfing on the web. Just as I am concerned with the students searching, I can imagine you might be to. At home you are able to build a WedQuest to limit your child's attention to certain sites. Some safe but still useful sites are www.askforkids.com, www.kidsclick.org and yahoo! kids, http://kids.yahoo.com, as they are listed in the textbook.
Earlier i stated Google Maps which gives us the opportunity to visually see where our friends are located that we will be communicating with through our blog as well as learning more about recycling. Google Map or Google Earth as it is stated in our textbook allows us to see where the non recycled materials are being taken to; landfills. Recently we looked up a map of Michigan to find out how many landfills we have. We then decided whether they were a type II or III. A type II can accept virtually any non-hazardous solid waste and a type III is a landfill for a particular waste. The map has allowed us to plot where these landfills are located and gave us an idea on how far they are from our homes.
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Lisa,
Katelyn and I were thinking you could start your Podcast off with: Students have learned landfills are not the ideal place for all of our waste to go. So they were given an overview on how to recycle.
-from there you can relate it back to what Katelyn said about what recycling is and what to recycle
-from the concept map
old made to new
community, schools, home

and remember 2 different concepts from the textbook

I used Google Map and Safe Surfing on the Web and Katelyn used blogs and Excel

Have a great weekend! :)

Ok here is my script of what I'm going to say.  The two concepts from the text I'm incorporating are optimizing technology and building community.

Hello parents and guardians.  The 5th grade teacher of WMU Elementary would like to give you an overview of what your students are currently learning.  We would also like to give you a preview of what is coming up.

We started our unit on recycling at the beginning of last week.  Students were given an overview of what recycling is and what items and materials can be recycled.  They were given handouts of what is recyclable so hopefully all of you had a chance to look at it.  The handout was meant to encourage recycling as home.

Our text book talk about optimizing technology available, which is something we are really striving for in the classrooms this year.  As you know we had the students go to each house in their neighborhood to find out who does and does not recycle.  Using that data, the students learned how to use Excel by inputting the data and creating charts.  This is only one piece of technology we want students familiar with.  

As we wrap up next week, the students will be creating blogs.  Once the students have finished researching about recycling in this town, they will post information to their blog.  These blogs will be used as a means of communication with another classroom learning about recycling outside of the district.  It will be a chance for the students to compare and contrast recycling in each town as well as a chance to build relationships outside our community, another important aspect from our textbook.  

Just want to keep everyone posted for the Podcast...
the two concepts from the textbook that I will be using are; Google Maps and Safe Surfing on the Web!

For the podcast, my section will be on what is recycling and what to recycle.  I'm going to be incorporating the lesson plan 2 I made briefly since I believe this is supposed to inform parents of what we have been doing.  I'm currently putting together my script and will post what I'm saying as soon as I'm done so we can get everything to flow.  

For module #9 we have to create a podcast. I am going to start working on my part of the Podcast which will be explaining what I expect the students to learn about landfills along with giving the parents an idea on how I plan on doing this

okay.. my lesson plan will keep on the lines of landfills :)