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Did you know...Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours. Despite this, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every three months! If more people knew the importance of recycling, we could reuse materials that can help keep our environment clean! Monday: What do you know about recycling, and what items have you used the past day?
 * As a class, students will be learning about recycling through a KWL chart. During class students will participate by going up to the SMART board and filling in the KWL chart.
 * Each student will fill out their own science log about items they used the past 24 hours. (ex: soda cans, water bottles, papers etc.)
 * Once they fill out their log, they will be placed into (random) groups of four, and compare and discuss what they each used the past day.
 * Each group shares within themselves. While listening to others speak in their group, students will be writing down what they think their teammates could have and could not have recycled. By clicking on this link, a list of items that can be recycled will appear.

Tuesday: Time to be creative! Creating PowerPoint presentations.
 * In groups of four, students will work together to construct a PowerPoint presentation based on the importance of recycling.
 * Students will use laptops from the computer lab. Within the presentation, students will include their three most important ways they will go about recycling. (This link provides helpful information for this prject).
 * Presentations should only take 1-2 minutes for each group. Once presentations are finished, the class will get together as a whole, and finish the KWL chart by labeling in what they learned from this unit.

Did you know that through recycling, you are reducing green house gasses which cause global warming?

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