This week and a few weeks to come we will be covering how to conserve, reduce, reuse and recycle better for homeschooling study. This isn't something that is in our curriculum so I needed to go on a search to get some much information on ways to teach without boring them to death. I can always tell when they have lost interest. lol They get that eyes glaze over look and their face relaxes.. Although they are looking at me, I know that they actually aren't really listening. lol I want to make this as fun as possible for them.
I came across a website last night called "The Story of Stuff." They even have a 6 different session lesson plan that you can do. Granted it's supposed to be used in a large group section, but I'm pretty sure I can tweak it a bit to fit our little classroom.
There is a 20 minute video on youtube.. check it out
I looking forward to see how doing this study will change our lives. I will be blogging about our journey of consuming less, reusing what we have until we can't anymore and ways to properly recycle items so they wont end up in the landfill .
4 comments:
Thank you so much for posting the video. It was such an eye opener! I will be passing this around to my people. Thanks again!
In Service for CHRIST,
Donna
What sort of recycling do they have in your area? Here in Worcestershire (middle of England) we use large wheelie bins. One is for rubbish - this means anything that you cannot recycle - such as the plastic topping on supermarket meat containers - the containers themselves, being plastic go into our recycling bins along with cardboard, paper, tins, plastic, glass, material, wrapping this is all things small. Larger items we either take to the recycling tip or we arrange for the council to collect them for a fee - 3 items for £15. Items of greenary are composted in the garden and things that are not compostable such as thick bramble stems or thick rose stems need to be cut into small portions and they go in the rubbish bin. Phew!!
I just wondered what the process was where you live ... now I feel nosey in asking. Lol!!
Donna,
You are very welcome. Glad to hear you enjoyed it as much as me. :)
Polly,
In our city we unfortunately don't have curbside pickup. :( So everything has to be taken to the recycling place or at a few drop off locations in town. Although, I have heard recently that there is a private small business that will pick up for a small fee. I need to look into it!
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