Today we learned about the true cost of food. Most food that you by at big box stores have a huge eco foot print (an eco foot print is the impact that we have on the earth). In this lesson we learned that you should buy locally or organically, to reduce pesticides, transportation and global … Continued
We spent more time learning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, answering such questions as, “Where is it?”, “What is it?”, “When did it come about? Why?”, “Who is impacted?”, and finished the class with perhaps the most important question, “What, if anything, can we do about it?”
Today we learned about the life cycle of a pair of jeans, from extracting the raw materials from the earth, to the processing or combining of those materials to form a final product that gets transported all over the world for us to buy. We examined just how international we are in terms of dress, … Continued
We broke into small groups of three students and picked a product. We studied about where it was made, what it was made of, the environmental impacts the building of the product had and what happens to it after it is used. We were surprised by the number of places the ingredients (materials) had to … Continued
Today we learned about the Eco-Handprint. We learned about how you should take the bus instead of driving to school. If you use containers you save materials, and reduce waste. We made our own Eco-Handprint for the "past" and the "future" tracing our right and our left hand. Examples: Waste: throw out less garbage. Food … Continued
We looked at pictures of the various stages of blue jean production. We talked with a partner about environmental impacts of making jeans. Here are some of the concerns we came up with: -Cutting trees -Planting cotton -Spraying pesticides -Picking/transporting raw cotton -Toxic dyes used -Shipped long distances to sew -Sewing done by poor people … Continued
Our class explored the ecological footprint this week. We questioned whether there may be a limit to how much we can take from the earth. We also looked at the population of the earth. Do you know how many people live on the planet? Visit WORLDOMETERS to find out http://www.worldometers.info/ Our class calculated our ecological … Continued
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
