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Tuesday 5/5/09 Today Hannah was absent. we went around the school and found things that can be better recycled. Some of the places we visited was the teacher lounge the copy room and the cafateria. The copy room was far the worst. There were papers everywhere and there was a small place to put recycleing. The trash was FULL of paper. Evan



Wendsday 5/6/09 Today we're going to discuss what materials we want to use... after Allison uploads the pictures to "our photos" and Mikaela is helping us all in any way and hannah is doing an excellent job of learning how to use iMovie. Learning the tricks of iMovie will be a useful strategy for us. This is because we will know how to do many more things, and achieve them in a shorter period of time. Evan

this week we are researching paper recycling and putting our findings on the paper info page. On wednesday, we are planning on deciding what materials we are going to promote recycling, and FIND OUT WHAT ACTIONS WE NEED TO TAKE. Lastly, on Friday we plan to create the posters, and create an "action plan"

Wendsday 5/13/09 Today we made a video about recycling. Hannah is editing the video on iMovie. Once we are done editing, we will post the video up on this page. Next time we make a movie, we will make our script a couple days ahead of time so that we have plenty of time to edit it, and put more insightful thoughts into it. Evan

Friday 5/15/09 Today we made flyers and posters promoting recycling paper. An obstacle we had was, Evan brought in posters, and nobody brought in markers. We problem solved by going to Mr. Melton's room, and using his markers. We have successfully reached our weekly goal of finishing our research on paper. Next week, we will begin researching can recycling information. These are pictures of us in the art room making the posters. Allison was the one to take the pictures that is why she wasn't in them.

Tuesday 5/19/09 Today, we made a slideshow of our posters, added more can recycling tips to the can info page, and put pictures onto our can and paper info pages. We learned how to make a slideshow on a MacBook using pictures from Photo Booth. We plan to present our slideshow to a 3/4 class sometime this week. We are having difficulty figuring out how we will speak to the kids, and when. One way we might solve that problem is by asking the 3/4 teachers if they are available to have us as speakers. We are planning on doing that tomorrow. However, if none of the 3/4 teachers are able to have us, we will try to ask the 5/6 teachers. Lastly, we are planning on making posters to promote recycling aluminum cans next week.

Friday 5/22/09 one of our major goals for this project is to present to younger kids about recycling. On Wednesday, we spoke with Mr. Wallington. He said it was ok that we talk to his class about recycling on Wednesday at 11:45. We have since been preparing. We will inform them why it is so important to recycle in many different ways. First, we will show them our information pages on wikispaces. We will talk to them about tips on recycling at home, and school. We hope that they will share the information with their parents and siblings as well as their friends. Then, we will give every student two coloring pages. These pages are shown below. The first one, is a simple Mother Earth that the students can color. We will tell them that we can help the Earth out by recycling and the benfits. Then the second page is a scavenger hunt in a sense. They have to find the cans, bottles, and newpapers in the picture. We are planning on giving the first student to find them all a prize. We hope that this incentive will make our presentation more interesting, and motivate them to participate. We may hand out little earth related goodies to hold their interest. We are thinking about making cookies and decorating them to look like the Earth. This will show our appreciation and kindness. Overall, we are planning to do this presentation on Wednesday in Mr. Wallington's room, and we are very excited! Wednesday, May 27,2009 Today, we were planning on talking to Mr. Wallington's students about recycling paper. However, they were scheduled to take an end of the year test, so we will reschedule for next week. We are making a totally new lesson plan. It's hopefully going to be complex, but fun, and easy to understand. We are brainstorming ways that we can get them involved and see what we taught them. We are planning on creating a small quiz based on what we presented to see if they learned anything, and having a small prize for the winning group. We think that this will create an incentive for the students to actually take the quiz. We decided as to group that we will not be giving them coloring pages, because we want to inform them about recycling, rather than do an arts and crafts project. We are hoping that we could really teach these kids something next week, and ezpecially want them to share what they learned with others.

Friday May 29,2009 Yesterday we typed up the lesson plan for Mr. Wallington's 3/4 students. Since, his class wasn't available on Wednesday like we planned, we are going to talk to him next week about it again, and make sure that he is available for a date. Today, we went in the halls and reposted out posters that got tore down, and took pictures of what we were doing. On Monday, we are going to continue taking more pictures, and make a stop motion video out of them, and post it as our documentation. The following is our lesson plan for Mr. Wallington's class:

__ Lesson Plan __ __ First (2 minutes): __ · We will walk in and introduce ourselves · We will explain what our project is about __ Next (10-15 minutes): __ · We will go on internet explorer, and pull up our wikispace page · Mikaela will read the first five paper recycling tips (we will all elaborate each tip and give some quick examples) -Use both sides of paper when copying, printing, and writing -Make sure you set your printer BEFORE you print… so you don’t accidentally waste paper by printing to the wrong printer -Use scrap paper and old calendars for your notes, reuse paper if it is necessary! -Brown paper bags can be recycled with corrugated cardboard. -Children's drawings and newspaper can be used to wrap gifts · JHannah will read the six remaining paper recycling tips (we will all elaborate each tip and give some quick examples) -Resealable envelopes can be used more than once! Hence, "re-seal-able". -Discarded paper can be cut and stapled to make notepads. -Phone books can be recycled with newspapers. -To recycle cardboard boxes, flatten them, and tie them up. You can take them to Kroger, etc. These supermarkets have people that take all cardboard. -Staples do not need to be removed when you recycle your papers out! So if you are lazy, you don't have to worry about it anymore! - Encourage businesses to supply their employees with blue deskside paper recycling bins. Workplaces use a lot of paper! · Evan will read first five reasons why recycling paper is important - More than 80 percent of all paper mills in the U.S. use recovered paper to make their new products - Recycling paper helps our communities by reducing the need for landfills and incinerators. - Recycled paper accounted for 37 percent of all fiber used by the U.S. paper industry in 2003 - Conserves resources and reduces deforestation, which is the cutting down of trees - Recycling paper conserves trees · Allison will read the five remaining reasons why recycling paper is important - Reduces pollution because not as much raw material needs to be processed to make new materials - One ton of recycled Paper saves 4,100 KWH of Energy, 9 barrels of oil, and 54 million BTUs of Energy. - One ton of recycled Paper saves 60 pounds of Air Pollutants from being released. - One ton of recycled Paper saves 7,000 gallons of water. - One ton of recycled Paper saves 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space. __ Then (3-5 minutes): __ · We will conduct quiz, and switch off reading every question 1. Hannah: Recycling paper conserves what resources? Answer: trees 2. Mikaela: What is deforestation? Answer: the cutting down of trees 3. Evan: Should you set your printer before or after printing? Answer: before 4. Allison: What can brown paper bags be recycled with? Answer: (corrugated) cardboard __ After That (5 minutes): __ · We will present our slideshow of all of our pictures and explain each picture · We will pass out earth cookies __ Lastly (2 minutes): __ · We will answer any questions · We will thank the students and teacher for having us
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Today, we went around the school to take pictures of how aluminum cans are positively and negatively recycled in school. However, it was hard for us to find these pictures. We found a few cans in the trash cans in the cafeteria.

Wednesday, June 3,2009

Today, we decided that we are going to show Mr. Wallington's 3/4 class a slideshow of a compilation of all of our pictures we took this quarter. There is no text on the slideshow, because we are planning on explaining what we are doing for our recycling campaign in each picture. We are still planning on using our lesson plan, so we added the slideshow bit to it. The following is our slideshow.