they got to paint the bodies of the bugs
being a statue flying a bug in the statue game
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we helped glue on the wings and the bodiesThursday, May 24, 2012
The "Bug Project"
they got to paint the bodies of the bugsbeing a statue flying a bug in the statue gamewe helped glue on the wings and the bodies
Week 7 Blog
Its finally the wrap up week of everyone's projects! Everyone has come to their final conclusion on how they helped the world be a better place. Our project ended up going really AMAZING! Mostly everything that we did went exactly how we planned it would. The only one thing that did not go good, was our paper drive that happened on a rainy day. All the ideas that we had, ended up teaching the school about recycling. Hopefully, they will all put it to action out of this project. I think that in the end, picking this idea for a project was a fantastic idea.
On Wednesday, we had our lessons with the third graders; it was a blast. All of the kids loved the idea and had a lot of fun. In the beginning of the class, we gave them lessons. It told them about recycling facts and we also asked them questions to interact with them. They really learned a lot from a 5 minute slideshow shown to them. From that, we learned that kids need something to look at that isn't boring for them to be interested. In the craft that they made, they got to decorate the wings and the body how they wanted. All of them ended up turning out really cool.
For this project, in two weeks, everyone will behaving their "final exams". All the groups need to create a slideshow explaining what they have done. This will also require a 10 minute presentation to the class. All of the people in the group will have to talk and it is worth 200 points! For ours, we already have it over half way done. It includes pictures of what we have done and also explanations of mostly everything that we have done. In the end, everything should end up really good and we should get a good grade on it.
On Wednesday, we had our lessons with the third graders; it was a blast. All of the kids loved the idea and had a lot of fun. In the beginning of the class, we gave them lessons. It told them about recycling facts and we also asked them questions to interact with them. They really learned a lot from a 5 minute slideshow shown to them. From that, we learned that kids need something to look at that isn't boring for them to be interested. In the craft that they made, they got to decorate the wings and the body how they wanted. All of them ended up turning out really cool.
For this project, in two weeks, everyone will behaving their "final exams". All the groups need to create a slideshow explaining what they have done. This will also require a 10 minute presentation to the class. All of the people in the group will have to talk and it is worth 200 points! For ours, we already have it over half way done. It includes pictures of what we have done and also explanations of mostly everything that we have done. In the end, everything should end up really good and we should get a good grade on it.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Week 6 Blog
This week for our project is really putting all the finishing touches on. Everyone wants to finall get to their final product. In our group, we arewrapping up all of our activities. The collections around the school and ending this Friday. We had a lot of participation with it and it was a great part of our project. We had to change many things with that including the dates and what to collect. But in the end, everything worked out how we wanted.
Something else that will be coming to an end and so startig is the third grade project. What will be ending is the pop bottle collections. With the three classes, there was about 100 bottles brought in from the students. The winner that we have will be planting a tree next week. That is also the week when we do out lessons/craft. We will br doing that for each class in different times of the week. I think that they will really enjoy it.
As for preparing the bottles to look like bugs, we have been taking class time to get all of the materials ready for the project. We will have to start creating our presentation soon also. This will involve us making a prezi (presentation) and talking to it with the class. We have been taking poctures of everything that we have done, and they will be in the presentation. I think that in the end, our project will be successful.
Something else that will be coming to an end and so startig is the third grade project. What will be ending is the pop bottle collections. With the three classes, there was about 100 bottles brought in from the students. The winner that we have will be planting a tree next week. That is also the week when we do out lessons/craft. We will br doing that for each class in different times of the week. I think that they will really enjoy it.
As for preparing the bottles to look like bugs, we have been taking class time to get all of the materials ready for the project. We will have to start creating our presentation soon also. This will involve us making a prezi (presentation) and talking to it with the class. We have been taking poctures of everything that we have done, and they will be in the presentation. I think that in the end, our project will be successful.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Blog week 5
This week, we are switching from collecting cardboard, to collecting plastic bottles. We got our video sent out to the principal. Hopefully, he will get all of the teachers to show their students. This one is a lot more advanced, and will draw the students in more than the last one. In the past week, we have collected a lot of non-cardboard materials. But in these next weeks, we hope that this announcement made it more clear to the school. We only want to collect plastic bottles in our bins, but the other items have still been good too. Our project is going very successful now that everything is actually “in play”.
Over the weekend, we had our paper drive in the parking lot of our school. We were doing that for another project along with ours. They plan to create flower pots out of newspaper for part of their project. When the time came, only one person in their group came and only two of my group went. It also started raining and no one came to drop off their papers. Even though we passed out papers to the whole neighborhood. We learned a lot from that experience. We need to plan our activities a little more.
For our pop bottle project, we got everything settled with the 3rd grade and art teachers. The kids will start making their "recycle bugs" on May 16th. So far, we have collected about 40 pop bottles from all the classes. Out of the three classes, only two have brought in bottles. One of the classes even brought in about 30 bottles at one time! All of our lessons are ready to be presented when they make the art activity. So far, this week has been the most successful out of all of them.
Over the weekend, we had our paper drive in the parking lot of our school. We were doing that for another project along with ours. They plan to create flower pots out of newspaper for part of their project. When the time came, only one person in their group came and only two of my group went. It also started raining and no one came to drop off their papers. Even though we passed out papers to the whole neighborhood. We learned a lot from that experience. We need to plan our activities a little more.
For our pop bottle project, we got everything settled with the 3rd grade and art teachers. The kids will start making their "recycle bugs" on May 16th. So far, we have collected about 40 pop bottles from all the classes. Out of the three classes, only two have brought in bottles. One of the classes even brought in about 30 bottles at one time! All of our lessons are ready to be presented when they make the art activity. So far, this week has been the most successful out of all of them.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Plastic Recycling Video
Here is the second video that we created. It explains what we are recycling for the next two weeks. We also put more effects into it so it looks a lot better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GnPaE-09lg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GnPaE-09lg
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Week 4 Blog
This week had basically been starting all of the projects. We have all of the collections starting in the school. Everyone loved the video that we made and got the classes to watch it. Most of the elementary saw it, but I don't think that all the middle school did. We got all of the bins that we need for the school. We put signs on them so that everyone knows that that is where they drop it off. It has been going really slow but I think that as the project goes on, we will get a lot more participation from everyone!
We have also got everything together for our contest/craft/lessons. We will be having the 3rd graders collecting as many 2-liter pop bottles that they can. The class that collects that most will get to plant a couple trees on the school grounds. All of the bottles will be given to the art teacher. She is going to be teaching all the kids how to make a creation out of recycled materials. While they area making them, we the recycling team will be giving them lessons that we created. We will be teaching them how it can be fun for them to recycle. Hopefully, this will get them to recylce in their homes.
Over the weekend, we will be having our paper drive. Our group gave out fliers to the neighborhood around our school. It says to bring in all of the newspaper and other papers to the backlot of our school. This is also a part of another groups project. They will be creating flower pots out of only newspapers. Something that we did this week was we created our second video all about plastic. It is a lot more advanced than our last video. My group is hoping that it will want to people to participate more than they are now.
We have also got everything together for our contest/craft/lessons. We will be having the 3rd graders collecting as many 2-liter pop bottles that they can. The class that collects that most will get to plant a couple trees on the school grounds. All of the bottles will be given to the art teacher. She is going to be teaching all the kids how to make a creation out of recycled materials. While they area making them, we the recycling team will be giving them lessons that we created. We will be teaching them how it can be fun for them to recycle. Hopefully, this will get them to recylce in their homes.
Over the weekend, we will be having our paper drive. Our group gave out fliers to the neighborhood around our school. It says to bring in all of the newspaper and other papers to the backlot of our school. This is also a part of another groups project. They will be creating flower pots out of only newspapers. Something that we did this week was we created our second video all about plastic. It is a lot more advanced than our last video. My group is hoping that it will want to people to participate more than they are now.
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