Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- 2. Is your classroom green? Do your students take part in caring for our earth? By incorporating various uses of technology into teaching about sustainability, students are able to learn about the negative side effects that our world experiences from not recycling. This presentation will show how teachers can incorporate blogs, podcasts, videos, interactive websites, and apps into their classrooms to help students discover how to reduce, reuse and recycle. All classrooms can work towards convincing our schools and communities the importance of being green. Technology Integration Rationale
- 3. Evaluation and Citation of Internet Content All websites included in this presentation are reliable and informative resources that will benefit both teachers and students in the classroom. All graphics are hyperlinks, and will redirect you to their original sources. The URLS from where materials were taken are also cited in the Notes section.
- 4. Children’s author Stephanie Armenia wrote the children’s book One Bottle One Dream after she was inspired by her children’s love for recycling. After reading the book, students are encouraged to take a vow to care for their earth through reducing, reusing, and recycling. Blog
- 5. Podcast Reuse, Reduce Waste, Recycle • Auntie Litter and her friends, the Patrol, celebrate Auntie Litter’s birthday. • The birthday presents are wrapped in recycled and reusable paper, the Patrol learn how people reuse objects, and groups take a visit to a plastics recycling plant.
- 8. Internet Resources United States Environmental Protection Agency The United States Environmental Protection Agency website has a section devoted to educational materials. The Planet Protectors Club for Kids provides resources for students K- 12 about waste issues and actions that can be taken to help keep the earth green. Kids Recycle! Kids Recycle! provides tools for students, teachers, school administrators, and communities to help achieve zero waste in their K- 12 school systems. Kids Be Green Kids be Green provides children with at-home remedies they can create to help reduce, reuse, and recycle articles around their homes and schools.
- 9. Kidspiration
- 10. Teaching Materials There’s an app for that! Gro Recycling An app that allows children to build a foundation of knowledge on sustainability, while also having fun! Click the picture to download the app “Gro Recycling”!
- 11. Teaching Materials Worksheet Recycle Match-Up This worksheet helps students classify which object belongs in which recycling category, and also doubles as a coloring page that can be completed after class! Click the picture to download this worksheet!
- 12. Teaching Materials Word-search Waste No Words A fun word-search for the students to complete, using the terms they have learned while researching recycling! Click the picture to access the word search!
- 13. Teaching Materials Story Adventures of the Garbage Gremlin The story of Garbage Gremlin and why the world needs to recycle! Click the picture to access the entire adventure story!
- 14. ScienceNetLinks is a website full of activities, lessons, tools, and scientific news that can be applied to the classroom. Materials 2: Recycled Materials is a lesson specifically for helping 2nd graders identify materials for recycling! Subject-Specific Internet-based Resource
- 15. Interactive Website National Geographic KiDS The website is full of information concerning games, videos, photos, countries, community, news, and more! Students can interact with games such as Recycle Roundup to help Gus the Gorilla clean up the park! Uses of the Internet
- 16. Online Reference SCHOLASTIC A website “where teachers come first.” which provides a plethora of articles that will be helpful in teaching recycling, such as the article “Teacher Tips for Classroom Recycling” Uses of the Internet
- 17. A text-message service designed for teachers to contact their students for homework/school reminders, and our weekly recycle/environment goal! Web 2.0 Uses of the Internet
- 18. A paint application that allows each student to make their own poster about recycling in the classroom that can then be printed and hung up around the school! Web 2.0 Uses of the Internet
Editor's Notes
- #5: “When Will We Be Recycled, Momma?” is a book that can be read to the class before beginning the thematic unit on sustainability. After finishing the book, the students are encouraged to take the pledge to begin reducing, reusing, and recycling themselves. Students are able to access the blog to see all of the other actions students across the nation are taking in sustainability, and share with others what their actions they have been taking. Teachers can also retrieve ideas from what other teachers are doing in their classrooms to teach and encourage recycling! Source: http://www.onebottleonedream.com/index.html
- #6: *The Podcast has a few seconds of silence before beginning with audio* The podcast can be useful in teaching this topic, because it is both educational and entertaining for students to listen to. Although considered a podcast, it also comes equipped with a video that the students can view. The interesting characters (Aunt Litter, the Patrol, and The Grunge) are interactive for the children, explore important lessons and questions, and also perform an original song that the class can learn! Source: http://alex.state.al.us/podcast_view.php?podcast_id=1329
- #7: This instructional video reinforces students the three R’s: reduce, reuse, recycle. It shows different ways that students are able to incorporate them in their everyday lives! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKvGgb3YcDQ
- #8: This instructional video is an audio reading of the book “What Does It Mean To Be Green?” which teaches children the multiple ways that they can “be green” by reducing, reusing, and recycling in their everyday lives, which helps save the world’s natural resources! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyNPa37G_2s
- #9: Sources: http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/education/kids/planetprotectors/index.htm http://www.kidsrecycle.org http://www.kidsbegreen.org
- #10: This graphic organizer would be used in a lesson towards the end of the thematic unit. As a class, we would work together to fill out the graphic organizer. I would have a copy projected onto the Smart Board, and each student would have their own physical copy in front of them. As a class, we would work together to channel all the information we have learned through our research on reducing, reusing, and recycling materials, and list them in the appropriate boxes next to each question. This visual will help enhance student understanding of the topic, because it depicts the earth with three separate thought bubbles. Each thought bubble asks a question that would help the earth to stay green and clean. The students will get the visual importance of these questions, and also importance and differences between reducing waste, reusing materials, and recycling objects.
- #11: Source: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gro-recycling/id663552636?mt=8
- #12: Source: http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/recycle-match-up/
- #13: Source: http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/education/kids/games/crossword/index.htm
- #14: Source: http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/education/kids/gremlin/
- #15: Sources: http://sciencenetlinks.com http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/materials-2-recycled-materials/
- #16: Source: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/actiongames/recycle-roundup/
- #17: Source: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/teacher-tips-classroom-recycling
- #18: Sources: https://www.remind.com (Explanation for teachers) http://www.teachthought.com/technology/25-teaching-tools-to-organize-innovate-manage-your-classroom/
- #19: Source: http://www.abcya.com/abcya_paint.htm