I found this website interesting since we just finished doing a persuasive paragraph in my classroom on why we need to reduce, reuse, and recycle. My students seemed to be very eager to want to help but they found throughout the day many things they were doing that were wasting in some way. We talked about leaving water running, leaving lights on, wasting toilet paper and paper towels. I am excited to go through these lessons to see what we could use after testing.
One great thing about this website is the connection in the curriculum. The Lorax is a great way for the students to understand this problem. We have read this to our entire building. Life cycle is a large standard in third grade and connecting life cycles to this concept of choosing how to dispose of materials is a great way to train the students now how important it is to reduce, reuse, and recycle. I have found that their attitude toward this carries on at home as parents have talked about their child convincing them to make better choices! Way to go kiddos!
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I have found that my sixth grade students are very interested in the subject of going green as well. We had a discussion a couple weeks ago about ways that they can help the environment and I was surprised to hear their ideas, things they are doing at home and school, and how they would like to make bigger changes. :)
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