Recycling Project

It just so happened that when my 10-12 Social Studies class came to chapters about ecology, pollution, and recycling, that the 1st graders were beginning to look at some of those ideas in their class, too (but of course at a younger level). So when 1st grade teacher Jean Komline (WGM VIA- Volunteer In Action- and good friend!) asked if we'd like to combine the kids to do a project, I jumped at the chance.

Pictured above left to right are Jean, Bhavik and Ethan.

So far my students have been amazing with the younger ones. It has been cute to watch them team up (each have 1-2 partners). They're all competing to bring in the most plastics they can. And we're running out of classroom space to store the stuff! But we've still got 4 weeks to go (or so), which will include making recycled paper, visiting a recycling center here, and some other fun events together.

10th grader Anna helps 1st grader Rachel make a poster about recycling.