With Earth Day coming up on April 22nd we have been working on recycling and reducing how much trash and energy we use in the classroom! We came up with a list of ways we can do this in our own classroom. The Grade 1 boys and girls came up with a great list; it included some things such as:
-recycling milk cartons
-recycling all paper
-only use the amount of paper towel we need
-using cloths to clean spills not paper towel
The classroom energy diet challenge presented by Shell and Canadian Geographic Education is a competition among Canadian classrooms that aims to increase energy awareness among youth and educators. We have taken on the track your trash challenge for 10 points! Our challenge is to weigh our trash and compete to reduce more garbage than another classroom. So far we have been very successful and the students are becoming very aware of what we recycle and trash.
We are weighing our trash with a kitchen food scale and have had results ranging from over 1000 grams to having our least amount of trash today with only 240 grams!
Check out the energy diet website at http://energydiet.canadiangeographic.ca
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