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.