Let's Save the WORLD Together... » My Project

We’re On Our Way!

jsiegs3 — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:30:15 +0000

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!

Just a Little Project Change…

jsiegs3 — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:29:58 +0000

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!

jsiegs3 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:26:20 +0000

Here are some more details to our project for those who were wondering what this is all about. We plan to teach the fifth grade students at the elementary schoola in our community all about the importance of recycling. We are going to visit them once a month for about five months. Each time we visit them, we will teach them something new and ask for a different recyclable item for next time. What I mean by this is; each month we are holding a new contest for the elementary schools. Every month will be a different recyclable item that we ask the students to bring in. For example, one month will be newspapers and magazines, another month will be plastic waterbottles. Since there are more than one elementary schools, it will be a contest. At the end of the schol year, the school that has the most recyclable items collected will recieve a prize. Hopefully, this will give some motivation to the fifth grade students to collect recyclable items.

Welcome!

jsiegs3 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:44:04 +0000

Welcome to my blog! My blog is about the environment, and the many ways in which we can save it. In school me and my friends are doing a project to save the environment, and I will be posting about what we’re doing and the progresst that my partners and I have made. Keep reading!