concept map looks great brynn, good job

Revised Concept Map!

have you been able to access and edit the page yet?

Ok I was confused. Whenever I was trying to access our Blog yesterday through my phone, it wasn't letting me. Now I can see what you have been posting. The website looks great, I cannot access it to edit it and add in my information. Hope we can resolve this, you did a wondeful job so far!

I just made the actual website, I shared it to your email address so text me if you get it. It's a template right now so it has work already done, it's about some teacher, but it can all be edited to all of our stuff. I will be traveling today so for a chunk of the day I will not be around my computer so communicating through text will work better for me.

have your started the website at all yet?

Ok I like what you said a lot. I think we can build a good flow because you talked about what you can and cannot recycle and stay on the topic again of why we recycle. People can see what to recycle but then often don't even know why they are doing it.

We have learned we can reduce, reuse, and recycle, and we now know what we can recycle but do we know why we recycle? I think it is fundamental for students to recycle within their school, their community and their homes as well. It is important to know why you are taking part in this important action to save our home the earth.
Recycling saves money, energy, reduces global warming, and reduces air pollution. Those are just some of the reasons why it is so important to recycle. I want to show students the digital story of why we recycle which has strong images in it and then discuss within the class how we plan to change our current habits into earth friendly habits. Such as making sure water is turned all the way off to save energy and taking time to really think about all that we are throwing away. We are going on a virtual field trip to Recycling City, through this field trip, we visit dumptown and watch the citizens turn their city around. We see families like the Savemores teach the community the importance of recycling. I want to students to grasp we have one earth and it is very important for the future of our students that we teach them to take care of our one earth.

Alright this is what I think I am going to say, tell me if you think it needs anything. I mentioned one concept from the book.

Recycling means to convert into reusable material. What I want the students to be aware of is how they can do that within our own classroom, as well as outside the classroom. Recycling has become such an important task amongst our generation and it is important that they students are knowledgeable about what they can do. I explained to the class what materials are recyclable and additionally what materials are not recyclable. Once the students confirmed that they understood what materials could be recycled I then discussed how each of those materials can be categorized. In order to make this topic more interesting for the class I put together multiple levels of discussions from teacher to teacher, student to student, and teacher to student, this way the class has multiple perspectives and insight. While learning about the recycled materials the students will also be informed on why those materials are being recycled and what they can be used for later.

So I just downloaded audacity and the directions that she gave us seem pretty simple I guess. Will have to wait till we are done to be able to determine that though. I thought that I would discuss why I am teaching the students the importance of recycling within the classroom and how I feel that as parents they too should try to influence their children in any way they can. What do you think?

Podcasts.

I agree we do need to start our podcast. I understand you are working all day which sucks, but we will work through it, we always do! haha. I think that's a good idea you can go and then I will. I think your topic is good. I have always stuck with why we recycle, but I am running out of ideas I feel. The podcast is challenging to me and I can't even begin to figure out Audacity. I have been working on this stuff most of the day and also we need to discuss our revisions for the inspiration map. We need to further our ideas for the whole entire project and really focus on what we want to do.

hey Brynn,

I figured since you will be out of town this weekend that we get our podcast done earlier than later. I thought that you would talk about your recycling stuff and then I would talk about mine. I'm not quite sure what your focus is on recycling but mine is methods that can be used in the classroom that the students can work with. Let me know if you have any ideas :)

this is the url to our google document:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1uopHPg6YLvlPHUuAMmRiICQLCSGRS2fcQHsAwFVRWpk

and this is the google maps url:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=217863881341563174204.0004a4ffab0210e662037&t=h&z=8

Hey Brynn I just got the document. If you would like I'm pretty sure I figured out how to make the map. I think we just need to put the location of the school in kalamazoo and then the school in sandusky. And if we wanted to, maybe put recycling centers that are close to both areas. But I am pretty sure that is all we need. Have you heard from Kalani? I have not seen her comment on our blog in a while and was wondering if she was still in the class.

I can't see the document. Am I suppose to see it in my document page on my own gmail account?

Google Document.

I need to know if either of you guys can see the google document about recycling I created? If not, then we need to find out how. It is short and sweet but it needs to be edited by both of you two, then we have to figure out the maps portion. Please let me know asap if either of you can see the document, or if you guys even got the invite via gmail?

How are we supposed to make the video, and where are we supposed to post it? And is that an individual assignment or a group one?

For the movie maker project I will stick with my theme of why we recycle. I thought we were supossed to share this with the rest of the group. For our google assignment I still have no idea what to do. I went to google documents and made a new one and added your names but I haven't created anything.

I think that it's a good idea. I was thinking along the same terms as you are. But I am still very confused on this entire project. How are we supposed to find an exact school grade and class to communicate with? And I too don't understand the google document/map thing. I'm very lost! :(

So have we decided on what we are going to do? Do you guys think it is a bad idea to talk about two different regions and compare recycling? I mean I am still confused on what we are doing especially when it comes to the maps part. Hopefully we can figure this out.

-Brynn

Pen Pal assignment

Do either of you guys understand our next group assignment due on Sunday? I'm a little confused.

My Lesson Plan.

Since I keep forgetting to post new posts instead of commenting, so you can guys can read it better, I am posting to say I am going to focus on why we recycle which I think fits nicely with who ever is going with what we recycle and having the students present it.

Brynn's Websites.

http://hunblog.typepad.com/hunblog/2010/12/teaching-students-to-recycle-and-why-recycling-is-so-important.html

http://www.recyclehere.net/item.html

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson308.shtml

http://www.itsamomsworld.com/schoolage_activities_recycling.html

http://s-p.mit.edu/resources/recycle2.php

sorry Brynn, i havn't noticed that you have been commenting on my posts, I've been so used to just making a new one. I focused on recycling methods and having students make their own. hope your enjoying the wedding. and I don' t think you are over thinking it, I like your idea a lot!!

Websites for evaluations.

Has anyone finished this part of the module yet? I believe we are to share our found websites for our evaluations with each other and they have to be different from the ones we used for our lesson plans.

These are the websites that I used for my web evaluation

http://www.swa.org/site/recycling/school_recycling_education/school_recycling_and_education.htm

http://www.kidsrecyclingzone.com/

http://www.hamiltontn.gov/recycle/Tips.aspx

http://recyclingnearyou.com.au/education/25-things-to-re-use.cfm

lesson plan topic

Okay I just made my lesson plan and I chose to do different recycling methods that each student will have to present to the class.

Hey Guys,

What is everyone's focus for the lesson plan that we have to do? That way we are not all doing the same thing.

Rachel

Main Project

Rachel, the concept map looks great!  Thanks so much for posting it.  I think that the center of the map is supposed to display what our main final project will be and I was thinking that we could do a recycling workshop for the class.  We could do a set up of three to five stations where the students could create different things to use in the classroom or at home made from recycled materials.  And all the different things that branch off from our main concept could be exactly what Rachel put in our concept map, we could just add a few things.  I was thinking maybe adding doing a compost pile and having a recycling bin at home to the ways to recycle bubble and add another bubble saying "what can be recycled" and have glass, paper, plastic, batteries, and tech equipment like Brynn said branch off of that. We can also add a "where we can recycle" bubble and branch off home, school, and recycling plants off of that.  We can also have a bubble that talks about the three R's, reduce, reuse, recycle and another one I've heard is rethink.  If we decide to do this for our main project we can incorporate writing into it by making a Book of Recycling and take pictures during the workshop of the students doing their activities and then have some students write about what they've learned and what they did.  Another idea is to have the students research and come up with their own ways to recycle and then maybe have a vote for which ideas to use for the workshop.

Concept Map

This is what I have come up with so far. I know we have not decided an an exact approach as far as a project goes so I just put some ideas that I have researched. If either of you would like to add/take away something please do. I also used kidspiration, not inspiration. I'm not sure if it makes a difference if you try to work on it.

Project Ideas II

Some other ideas that I forgot to mention:

-having students bring their own water bottles to school so they don't have to use the drinking fountain.
-bringing tupper wear for lunches instead of plastic baggies
-having a lunch box as opposed to a paper or plastic bag
-only using one sheet of paper towel after washing hands

just ideas that i have been researching online

Project Ideas II

Kalani,

I have not set up my inspiration trial yet, have you? But I like what you have said so far as far as our map goes. Everything that I have thought of so far for reusing recycled materials is perhaps using magazines that the students have read in the past and maybe do a writing assignment with them. For example cutting out letters and having them create their own sentence so they don't waste paper. I also think that it is very important to explain why we recycle and what items can be recycled and what cannot.

Project Ideas II

I like your idea Rachel.  That would probably be a simpler task than trying to set up a sale.  So we should probably get started on the concept map through inspiration.  Did you want to post the map or would you like me to do it?  What do you think our main project should be?  Did you have ideas on what they could create using the recyclable materials?  On the map we should include introducing what it means to recycle and talk about the three R's. We could also include what materials can be recycled, where recycling takes place, what can be done with recycled material, examples of objects that come from recycled material that we use on an everyday basis, how we can recycle, different forms of recycling like composting, etc. Have you set up your Inspiration trial already?  I know that's a lot of questions, sorry if I overwhelmed you: ).  Let me know what you think!

Project Ideas

Just an idea that I have seen in some of my classes, that goes off what Dr. Peterson mentioned is having the class reuse materials. Using classroom materials and learning to reuse them like soap bottles or hand sanitizers.

Concept Map

I think that is all that we have to do. Just the two maps!

Posting the Concept Map

I have a question regarding the concept map using Inspiration.  So from what I understand, we only need to post the map to our blog twice meaning only two of us out of our group needs to submit the map; one person does the first one that is due this Sunday and the other will do the final map which is due the 26th...is that correct?

Group Project

Hey Brynn and Rachel.  We should probably start brainstorming ideas for our group project on recycling.  I'm not sure if you want to focus on recycling in one specific form such as paper or plastic or if you want the focus to be on recycling in general.  I'm going to do some research on the internet and try to come up with some fun ideas.  I'd love to hear what ideas you come up with!