Tammy+Maxson

=Tammy Maxson - Guiding Activities =

**How can we reuse the waste in our school to help our community? **
 * Use school reusable waste to design and create a seed pot for planting.
 * Students will use the following websites listed in the "Guiding Resources" for research on this activity:
 * You don't need elaborate seed-starting biodomes or habitat-destroying peat pellets to get your greens to sprout. Here are a few methods that are both easy and-if you'd pardon the pun-dirt cheap.
 * @http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/recycled-seed-starter-pots.html




 * Where does most of the waste our schools generate come from?**
 * Students will journal and will create a list of types of items thrown away.
 * Students will use the following website listed in the "Guiding Resources" for research on this activity:
 * **Discovery Education - Get Activated: School Projects to Help the Environment - School Trash Audit**
 * This video from Discovery Education instructs students on how to perform a school trash audit. This audit will analyze how environmentally friendly their school is. Students document ways their school reuses and uses their resources.
 * @http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=D62A4761-8716-45BB-A127-9C0F968A4C12&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will estimate how much of each item is thrown away each week.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will use the following websites listed in the "Guiding Resources" for research on this activity:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Discovery Education - Real World Science: Trash and the Environment**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Discovery Education video that explains what happens to waste and trash. Decomposed and raw materials are recycled naturally but much of human trash doesn’t decompose for a very long time. They follow an average person and estimates how much trash they throw away in a day.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=77B98334-881C-4593-B352-E15D3645E6DC&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Real World Science: Trash and the Environment Quiz**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Accompanying material for the video “Real World Science: Trash and the Environment.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">@http://tools.discoveryeducation.com/quiz/viewQuiz.cfm?guidAssetId=f74cf2a0-37c6-4f6a-9c93-0ab8ab6ce5d9&strEditCopy=Copy