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RECYCLINGCreated by Adelia CouserIntended Grade Level: Third

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Click video to play. Recycling is something that is very important in our daily lives. Without effective waste management strategies and reusing materials, pollution levels would rise and damage our environment and everything we need to live. Therefore, its important to teach children why recycling is important and how they can recycle. Integrating technology into a lesson on recycling enables students to learn more about the topic, its relevance, and what they can do to protect the environment.

IMAGES FROM THE INTERNET - BLOG This Recycling Blog by RecycleNation publishes informative blog entries and articles every week. This blog could be useful in teaching students about recycling because it contains information on topics such as climate change, energy, water conservation, and reducing waste at home, at school, and at work. A class could also sign up for RecycleNations monthly newsletter using this blog in order to receive constant new information about recycling.

IMAGES FROM THE INTERNET PODCAST National Public Radio (NPR) has published a variety of podcasts on recycling in recent years that can found here on their website. One particularly interesting podcast is The Global Afterlife of Your Donated Clothes, in which NPR Foreign Affairs correspondent Jackie Northam explains what happens to a persons clothes after he or she donates them. This could be eye-opening in a lesson on recycling because many people dont think about what happens to materials after they are recycled. The podcast also contains information on what happens to clothing that is thrown away instead of donated, which could be used to educate students on the consequences of waste.

IMAGES FROM THE INTERNET - VIDEO The video Take A Tour of this Recycling Plant in Philadelphia was uploaded to YouTube by All for Recycling in January 2015. The video shows footage of the Philadelphia Material Recovery Facility, as well as interviews with the Waste Management staff members. This video might be useful in a lesson about recycling because it would show students behind-the-scenes footage of what happens to material once it is recycled, and how recycling plants work.

INTERNET RESOURCES #1Waste Management, Inc. Waste Management is an American organization that is responsible for waste collection and environmental services. This resource is reliable because it is Waste Managements official website and contains a variety of information on education, sustainability, and other trash disposal services. This website could be used to educate students about various aspects of the waste disposal process and recycling in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Specifically, it could be used to answer the following essential questions: Why is recycling important? What can we recycle? and How can we recycle it?

INTERNET RESOURCES #2The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) The EPA is a federal government agency that is responsible for protecting human and environmental health through various legislation and regulations. This is a reliable resource because it is a government website. This website contains a lot of information and resources about recycling, including how to reduce waste production, how to reuse materials, how to properly recycle, recycling activities/games, and what students can do to help protect the environment.

INTERNET RESOURCES #3World Wildlife Fund (WWF) The WWF is an international organization that is responsible for wildlife preservation and conserving natural resources. This is a reliable resource because it is WWFs official website and contains information on topics such as WWFs global projects and the effects of environmental efforts. This website could be used to educate students on the effects of harmful waste disposal and pollution - how animals and nature are affected when humans dont recycle.

DIAGRAM CREATED USING INSPIRATION

This graphic organizer shows the negative effects that air, water, and soil pollution have on humans, animals, and the environment. In an actual lesson, this diagram would be used to explain to students what air, water, and soil pollution are and why they are harmful. This visual enhances students understanding of recycling because it demonstrates just how many negative effects not recycling (and the consequent pollution) can have on our world, a concept which can be difficult for children to visualize without a picture or diagram. This graphic organizer also shows the importance of recycling, since reducing waste will reduce pollution and therefore reduce all of these negative effects.9

TEACHING MATERIALS

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1.) The Three Rs: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle is a third-grade-appropriate book about how children and their families can avoid waste and be environmentally conscious. The book also provides activities and more resources for recycling. This would be an excellent unit launch activity to introduce students to recycling. 2.) This Recycle Word Search contains key vocabulary related to recycling and the environment. This would be a good activity for students to help them learn vocabulary words and review recyclable materials. 10

TEACHING MATERIALSCreated using puzzle-maker.com

3.) This Recycling Crossword contains key vocabulary related to recycling and the environment. This would be a good activity for students to help them learn vocabulary words.4.) The iRecycle app enables users to search more than 1.5 million ways to recycle more than 350 materials (a small sample is shown in the above picture). Users can also read articles about recycling and enter their ZIP code to find nearby recycling locations and programs. 11

SUBJECT-SPECIFIC INTERNET RESOURCEA Brief Timeline of the History of RecyclingSubject: Social Studies/HistoryThis timeline provides a detailed history of recycling and waste disposal, starting in 500 BCE and ending in modern times (specifically, 2015). A teacher might use this in a history or Social Studies lesson to show students how waste management has changed over time. This timeline would help students understand how much progress has been made in the realm of environmental protection and waste reduction.

USES OF THE INTERNET #1Category 1: Ask the Expert Ask the Expert is a live chat platform that connects verified experts in a variety of subjects with users who have questions pertaining to those subjects. The experts and users can be connected via mobile devices such as phones and computers. The communication process allows curious users to learn about unfamiliar topics through a personal conversation. According to the website, there are experts registered in categories such as Government & Regulations and Education & Learning, both of which are related to recycling and the environment. My students and I would brainstorm questions about recycling and environmental health, then use Ask the Expert to communicate with someone who is knowledgeable about the topic of recycling and its effects.

USES OF THE INTERNET #2Category 2: Online Projects Global SchoolNet Global SchoolNet is a website that enables teachers around the world to search for partners and projects on which their students can collaborate. These projects encompass a variety of curriculum areas, such as science, math, and literacy, and offer a variety of technology activities from participants, including email, discussion forums, and blogs. Teachers can search the Projects Registry for current projects and email the project coordinator to participate in the project. There are several archived projects on Global SchoolNet that have focused on the topic of recycling. For example, 30 classrooms around the world participated in a 2008 project titled Plastic Bottle Recycling. The goal of this project was to see how many plastic bottles the participants could collect and recycle in a month. Participants counted and weighed the bottles, created charts and graphs to show their progress, and filmed their efforts to make a short movie about why recycling is important. This would be very useful in teaching my topic because it would allow my students to collaborate with students around the world and create visuals about the importance of recycling plastic water bottles.

WEB 2.0: TODAYSMEET TodaysMeet is a website that allows teachers to create a chat room that can remain open from one day to one year. Once the teacher creates the chat room and gives it a name and duration, they share the URL of the chat room with their students. The chat room can be accessed by students inside or outside of the classroom, as long as they have the URL. This website would foster collaborative uses of technology because the teacher and students could communicate with one another using the chat room. Students could type questions in the chat room during a lesson, during group work, or at home while completing homework. The teacher could answer the questions and use the chat room to assign homework or provoke discussion about a certain topic. In addition, students could communicate with each other if they have questions or comments about the lesson material.

RUBRIC The website TeAch-nology.com provides a General Rubric Generator for teachers, which they can use to create their own rubrics. The generator provides a template for a rubric with a title, picture, up to five stated objectives, and four student performance levels: beginning, developing, accomplished, and mastery. I think this website is useful because it enables teachers to tailor rubrics based on a specific class, assignment, skill, etc. rather than using a standard rubric that might be vague or ill-fitting for what is being assessed. I also like that the generator allows teachers to create criteria for different levels of performance, because that provides a detailed and specific outline of their expectations for the class, assignment, or skill.

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