This week, we looked at plastic – how it is in so many day-to-day items, how many of these items we’ve used even before getting to school in the morning, and how hard it is to imagine life without this material. We learned that most of all of the plastic that has ever been made … Continued
PLASTIC OCEAN! “Green Gorilla” video talked about replacing plastic bags with cloth bags something everyone can do! We glued plastic items together to make a “gyre” we wrote statements about plastic in the oceans. We included ocean creatures and made a “plastic ocean” scene on a bulletin board. By Frankie and Blewett School Grade 4/5 … Continued
We have now had 3 lessons of Beyond Recycling in Mrs. Anast’s class at Tafalgar. In the first lesson, we looked at the history of waste. It was fun to see the ‘historical guests’ to help us learn about the kind of waste we made in each time period. The amount of garbage has gone … Continued
RENEWABLE AND NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES We learned the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources. Glass is made from silica(which is sand).Oil is a non-renewable resource, because you can’t renew or regrow it. Timber is a renewable resource because you can grow trees. Emissions are air pollution from fossil fuels. Effluents are water polluters. Written by Rylee … Continued
In today’s lesson we learned that all raw materials come from the earth and we use raw materials to make all kinds of things like furniture and toliet paper. We liked the comic strip about where jeans came from. Most t-shirts, pants, and shoes were made in far away places like China and India. ~ … Continued
Have you ever sorted through your garbage? Really – have you? We did it this week as we had a special visit from a Garbologist to the Beyond Recycling program, and we found AMAZING things. Students were surprised to see that there were so many ziploc bags in the garbage, and we estimated that there … Continued
We made recycled paper to keep from cutting down so many trees. First, we collected used paper to recycle. Then we tore it up, soaked it in water and put it in the blender. We screened the pulp and flattened it out. We patted it with Sponges to get rid of the water. We rolled … Continued
Question & Answer Game! We took the RDCK “Recycling Guide” pamphlet and we all wrote questions. The answers had to be in the pamphlet. We got into 2 teams. A question would be picked out of a hat. If the team got the answer right they got a point! It was a interesting fun and … Continued
Professor Betty Lovestrash and her Assistant Garbologist analyze Blewett School’s garbage. We took the garbage from our whole school and sorted it on a tarp, The sorting piles were “compostables” “recyclables” “re-useables” “food waste” and real “Garbage”. We discovered that the biggest amount of garbage was PAPER TOWELS! -written by Maddy R. and Blewett Grade4/5
