Week 3 Blog

This week, there has been a lot going on. Something that is going to start this week is collecting the cardboard from all of the teachers. We made the cardboard video over the weekend and posted it on youtube. Our principal agreed to give all the teachers the link to show their class. It will give them all of the information about the collections we will have. It also tells the process of how cardboard is recycled. My group is really hoping that we will be able to persuade the kids to bring in the items. Participation is a really big part of this project and if we don’t have that, the project will fail.

We have made lots of changes to our plans so far. We are moving the collection dates a week later. We didn’t realize how fast that it was coming so we weren’t as prepared as we should have been. The recycling team also added something to our plans. On May 5th, we will be having a paper drive in the back parking lot of our school. We gave out fliers to the neighborhood around the school, and will hopefully have a lot of participation. Something else that will happen this weekend is making the video about recycling plastic for the next collection.

We have finally come up with the last two projects that we will do. The first one is a competition for the 3rd graders. We want them to collect as much recyclable items as they possibly can. Each class will have a box that we will weigh at the end. The winning class will get to plant a tree on the school grounds. The next project that we have is also for the 3rd graders. In art class, we are going to have all the kids create something out of totally recycled materials. While they are making the project, our whole team will be teaching them more about recycling. The main goal at the end of this is to teach them that it can be fun to recycle and that it is so easy.