Meeting

Kelly and I are together right now discussing this weeks projects. We have decided what we will do for the first assignment. We are having our pen pals communicate with kids in downtown Chicago on recycling, what their school does for recycling, and what they know about recycling. We are hoping it will turn out alright!

List of Websites

I'm finally done with my lesson plan! It took longer than I thought it would honestly.

My hotlist of websites was:

http://www.edcodisposal.com/video.html

http://www.edcodisposal.com/kids/recycle.html

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/recycle/slide1.htm

http://www.recyclenow.com/what_can_i_do_today/can_it_be_recycled/

And my list of websites for the evaluation was:

http://www.kidsrecyclingzone.com/index.html

http://www.chevroncars.com/learn/wondrous-world/recycling-process

(This one was really good for information on the process of recycling)

http://www.recycleguys.org/guidelines.asp

(This one outlines how to start a recycling program in your school)

Three Websites

Hey! So I finished my lesson plan. I decided to go with having the students do a PowerPoint on the benefits and positive effects of recycling! How are things going with yours? And I have my three websites that I am doing my web evaluations on. I will give them to you to make sure we both don't do the same ones. Let me know if you have any questions! :)

http://earth911.com/recycling/

http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/rrr/recycle.htm

http://www.kalcounty.com/hhw/why.htm

Hot Lists/Lesson Plan

Hey Madeline, I'm planning on working (and hopefully finishing) my lesson plan today! I will post all of my info as soon as I'm done with it...thanks for sharing your links! Did you come up with an activity for your lesson?

PS. Web Evaluations

PS. I am still working on the three web sites for our web site evaluations. Did you see that they have to be different than the three for our Hot List? Just wanted to make sure you knew that! I will have my three by tomorrow and post them on here, to make sure we don't get the same ones! Whenever you find yours, please post them, thanks!

My Hot List

Hey Kelly. I started working on my Lesson Plan. I'm not sure how good it is, this is the first time I have used Task Stream so we will see. How is yours coming? I just wanted to share my Hot List links with you in case you wanted to check them out. There might be something you can use depending on which way you take your lesson plan. Talk to you soon!

http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-benefits.html

http://www.pacebutler.com/blog/what-is-recycling-7-reasons-why-we-should/

http://www.benefits-of-recycling.com/whyisrecyclingimportant.html

Lesson Plan

Yeah, that's perfectly fine Madeline. I'll either do steps to recycling or what is recyclable. I'm going to play with it a little bit and see what I can come up with a better lesson for. I'm leaning more toward steps to recycling, but we'll see. I'll keep you posted!

Lesson Plan Ideas

So we each need to do a lesson plan, hot list, safe web surfing..etc., for this week's assignment. We pick a branch from our concept map and expand on that. Kelly, I didn't know if you had anything in mind that you already wanted to do? I was thinking that I could do benefits of recycling if that was alright with you? Let me know what your ideas are and what you think you might want to do! Thanks.

Concept Map

Madeline, the concept map looks great! Thanks for putting it together. I think these are all really good "branches" to look into for our project!

Concept Map

Concept Map Thoughts

I think those are all really good ideas Kelly! I definitely think we should include ways to recycle as well as how to make recycling easier for people. It is important people are aware of the "resources" at their disposal. We should also include the reasons why recycling is important, like you said, so people know they are doing a good thing for the very environment they live in. I can download the program and do this concept map. If you have any more ideas I can use before tomorrow, or get more specific information, just send it to me and I will add it in. Thanks!

Blog!! :)

Thanks so much for setting this up Madeline! So what do we want to do for our concept map exactly? I was trying to think of things that we could do our project on, and some thoughts I had were things like how to get more people to recycle, how to set up recycling in a school etc...or we could do something bigger like researching the different ways recycling is helpful for the environment and things like that. Let me know what you guys think!

The First Blog Post

Hey guys!

I just figured this thing out and got it set up. Let me know if all looks alright. :) Also, we need to do the concept mapping, so one of us will have to download the program, Inspiration and/or Kidspiration, (but since the free trial only last 30 days we should probably figure out who is doing what when, and how we are going to do that)! Looking forward to a great summer semester.