Let’s Save the WORLD Together…

Hey readers!

I really hope that so far thoughout this blog, you’ve learned a lot about the environment and recycling. It’s very important that you understand why to recycle, and to pass your knowledge on to other people. SPREAD THE KNOW.

Here are some links to websites that can help you understand more about recycling, check them out! Expand your knowledge on the world. http://kkess33.edublogs.org

 http://doggieloverlol.edublogs.org

http://decirque321.learnerblogs.org 

http://www.plasticsrecycling.info/ 

I hope you learn something new by exploring the web for more information. You’d be surprised hom much information is out there!

We have gotten responses from each of the elementary school principals, and they are currently putting us in contact with the fifth grade teachers so we can get the ball rolling. I really can’t wait, I have a feeling this will be a very exciting project! We’ve kept our prize system the same, there is none. For all of you who aren’t aware… me and my friends are going to the four elementary schools to inform them about recycling and to try and teach them good recycling habbits. We are also collecting a certain recyclable item or two, (we’re not sure which yet because we need to decide with the fifth grade teachers based on what they are already collecting), and we plan to recycle these items that each school has collected.

Remember… REDUCE! REUSE! RECYCLE!

There’s been a little change in our project…

After contacting the principals of the elemtary schools that we are planning on working with, we got a tip from one of them. The principal told us that we are promoting recycling as a competition, like a game. Instead of having the schools compete against eachother, we are just having them recycle. Making the kids compete against eachother is the wrong motive to recycle. It should be because they want to save the environment, not to beat eachother and then foreget about it when the competition is over. Our goal was to give these kids life long recycling habbits, not to just want to recycle to win a prize like a pizza party.

We’re very excited about our new project, and we hope for this to all work out well in the end and to give the kids some life long recycling habits, and to bring recycling into their homes. If you have any feedback for our project, or you have any experience with our type of project, please comment me about your ideas or insight. Thanks!

 This is what I mean by aiming at the kids for recycling. This was made to resemble a popular kids’ show on Nick- Avatar. This is a great way to get kids interested in recycling.

Why teach the children about keeping our earth clean, rather than the adults? Because of two things; 1) their minds are the most moldable. If we teach them “clean earth habbits” at a young age, it will be something they believe in for life. It’s just like kids who were brought up with parents that smoke, they don’t think it’s a bad thing because they don’t know better. 2) THEY’RE THE FUTURE.  When the adults are dead, and the environment isn’t yet at it’s polluted peak, the children will still be there, and it will be THEIR problem, not the adult’s. So, because of this, we need to educate them and teach them all the ways in which the kids can help, because they’re the generation that will have to clean this all up, and that will have to come up with the sollutions. The more they know, the more they’re interested and able to expand on the knowledge that we already have when they’re older.