More and Muir Tech Tips for Teaching About a Greener Tomorrow Lance Rougeux, Discovery Education

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Data from Kaiser Family Foundation Study, 2005 R U havN trouble rEDN DIS? iz it makin U :-||, ^set, Grr? DIS iz d way kds TLK. CreslE. It iz EZ 4 dem. dey luv it. dey luv it mo wen U spk thR lngwij. @ lEst a ltl bit. Are you having trouble reading this? Is it making you mad, upset, angry? This is the way kids talk. Seriously. It is easy for them. They love it. They love it more when you speak their language. At least a little bit.

3 hrs watching TV 1 hr on the computer (outside of schoolwork) 1 hr 45 min listening to music (radio, CDs, MP3 players) 45 minutes playing video games 6 ½ hrs/day Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Change the Way You Search

Change the Way You Search www.blackle.com

Change on Demand www.discoveryeducation.com

Change Your Students’ Views About Writing in Science Class Create P-essays about the environment

Create P-essays about the environment

Change Attitudes With Digital Posters Whales Global Warming http://edu.glogster.com

Whales

Global Warming

Change Students’ Views of the World http://earth.google.com

Students can create and collaborate via voice, animated doodling and text commenting http://voicethread.com Change the Discussion

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge Empower your students to find solutions to environmental problems in their own backyards and have them become true Agents of Change! www.wecanchange.com

Empower your students to find solutions to environmental problems in their own backyards and have them become true Agents of Change!

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge The Challenge is designed to help your students work together to solve an environmental problem in their… Classroom (K-2) School (3-5) Community (6-8) www.wecanchange.com

The Challenge is designed to help your students work together to solve an environmental problem in their…

Classroom (K-2)

School (3-5)

Community (6-8)

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge Learn About the Challenge www.wecanchange.com including the prizes…

Learn About the Challenge

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge TEAM PRIZES an on-site video shoot of the class that will be turned into a commercial and run on one of Discovery's networks a $5,000 grant for your school an opportunity to be featured on a jumbotron in Times Square in New York City a Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge green prize a banner for your school TEACHER/MENTOR PRIZES a chance to be a guest editor on treehugger.com free registration to the next NSTA National (or Area) Conference hotel accommodations for three nights at the conference a pocket video camera a one-year membership to NSTA and a 12-month subscription to Discovery Education Science Elementary version www.wecanchange.com

TEAM PRIZES

an on-site video shoot of the class that will be turned into a commercial and run on one of Discovery's networks

a $5,000 grant for your school

an opportunity to be featured on a jumbotron in Times Square in New York City

a Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge green prize

a banner for your school

TEACHER/MENTOR PRIZES

a chance to be a guest editor on treehugger.com

free registration to the next NSTA National (or Area) Conference

hotel accommodations for three nights at the conference

a pocket video camera

a one-year membership to NSTA

and a 12-month subscription to Discovery Education Science Elementary version

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge www.wecanchange.com

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge Then Get Started www.wecanchange.com with an abundance of free resources…

Then Get Started

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge www.wecanchange.com

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge www.wecanchange.com

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge www.wecanchange.com Now it’s time to Learn, Plan, Act and Share!

Now it’s time to Learn, Plan, Act and Share!

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge www.wecanchange.com Submitting the application is easy!

Submitting the application is easy!

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge So what are you waiting for??? Need more information? Attend a free webinar. http://links.discoveryeducation.com/wecanchange

So what are you waiting for???

Need more information? Attend a free webinar.

www.WeCanChange.com Check out the Science in Action blog for a copy of the presentation http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/scienceinaction Register for a free webinar to learn more http://links.discoveryeducation.com/wecanchange

Check out the Science in Action blog for a copy of the presentation

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/scienceinaction

Register for a free webinar to learn more

http://links.discoveryeducation.com/wecanchange

More and Muir Tech Tips for Teaching About a Greener Tomorrow Lance Rougeux, Discovery Education [email_address] www.wecanchange.com