This presentation shows teachers how to incorporate technology like blogs, podcasts, videos, websites and apps to teach students about sustainability and recycling. It provides examples of resources like a children's book, podcast, instructional videos and interactive websites that teach about reducing, reusing and recycling. The presentation also includes teaching materials like a recycling app, worksheets, word searches and stories that teachers can use to help students learn about the importance of being green.
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Teaching Sustainability Through Technology
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2. Is your classroom green? Do your students take part in caring for our earth? By incorporating
various uses of technology into teaching about sustainability, students are able to learn about
the negative side effects that our world experiences from not recycling.
This presentation will show how teachers can incorporate blogs, podcasts, videos, interactive
websites, and apps into their classrooms to help students discover how to reduce, reuse and
recycle. All classrooms can work towards convincing our schools and communities the
importance of being green.
Technology Integration Rationale
3. Evaluation and Citation of
Internet Content
All websites included in this presentation are reliable
and informative resources that will benefit both
teachers and students in the classroom.
All graphics are hyperlinks, and will redirect you to
their original sources. The URLS from where
materials were taken are also cited in the Notes
section.
4. Children’s author Stephanie Armenia wrote the children’s book One Bottle
One Dream after she was inspired by her children’s love for recycling.
After reading the book, students are encouraged to take a vow to care for
their earth through reducing, reusing, and recycling.
Blog
5. Podcast
Reuse, Reduce Waste, Recycle
• Auntie Litter and her friends, the Patrol, celebrate
Auntie Litter’s birthday.
• The birthday presents are wrapped in recycled and
reusable paper, the Patrol learn how people reuse
objects, and groups take a visit to a plastics recycling
plant.
8. Internet Resources
United States Environmental Protection Agency
The United States Environmental Protection Agency website has a
section devoted to educational materials. The Planet Protectors Club for
Kids provides resources for students K- 12 about waste issues and
actions that can be taken to help keep the earth green.
Kids Recycle!
Kids Recycle! provides tools for students, teachers, school
administrators, and communities to help achieve zero waste in their K-
12 school systems.
Kids Be Green
Kids be Green provides children with at-home remedies they can create
to help reduce, reuse, and recycle articles around their homes and
schools.
10. Teaching Materials
There’s an app for that!
Gro Recycling
An app that allows children to build
a foundation of knowledge on
sustainability, while also having fun!
Click the picture to download the
app “Gro Recycling”!
11. Teaching Materials
Worksheet
Recycle Match-Up
This worksheet helps students
classify which object belongs in
which recycling category, and
also doubles as a coloring page
that can be completed after
class!
Click the picture to download
this worksheet!
12. Teaching Materials
Word-search
Waste No Words
A fun word-search for the students
to complete, using the terms they
have learned while researching
recycling!
Click the picture to access the word
search!
13. Teaching Materials
Story
Adventures of the
Garbage Gremlin
The story of Garbage Gremlin and
why the world needs to recycle!
Click the picture to access the
entire adventure story!
14. ScienceNetLinks is a website full of activities, lessons, tools, and scientific
news that can be applied to the classroom.
Materials 2: Recycled Materials is a lesson specifically for helping 2nd
graders identify materials for recycling!
Subject-Specific Internet-based
Resource
15. Interactive Website
National Geographic KiDS
The website is full of information concerning games, videos, photos, countries,
community, news, and more! Students can interact with games such as Recycle
Roundup to help Gus the Gorilla clean up the park!
Uses of the Internet
16. Online Reference
SCHOLASTIC
A website “where teachers come first.” which provides a plethora of articles
that will be helpful in teaching recycling, such as the article “Teacher Tips for
Classroom Recycling”
Uses of the Internet
17. A text-message service designed for teachers to contact their students for
homework/school reminders, and our weekly recycle/environment goal!
Web 2.0 Uses of the Internet
18. A paint application that allows each student to make their own poster
about recycling in the classroom that can then be printed and hung up
around the school!
Web 2.0 Uses of the Internet
Editor's Notes
“When Will We Be Recycled, Momma?” is a book that can be read to the class before beginning the thematic unit on sustainability. After finishing the book, the students are encouraged to take the pledge to begin reducing, reusing, and recycling themselves. Students are able to access the blog to see all of the other actions students across the nation are taking in sustainability, and share with others what their actions they have been taking. Teachers can also retrieve ideas from what other teachers are doing in their classrooms to teach and encourage recycling!
Source: http://www.onebottleonedream.com/index.html
*The Podcast has a few seconds of silence before beginning with audio*
The podcast can be useful in teaching this topic, because it is both educational and entertaining for students to listen to. Although considered a podcast, it also comes equipped with a video that the students can view. The interesting characters (Aunt Litter, the Patrol, and The Grunge) are interactive for the children, explore important lessons and questions, and also perform an original song that the class can learn!
Source: http://alex.state.al.us/podcast_view.php?podcast_id=1329
This instructional video reinforces students the three R’s: reduce, reuse, recycle. It shows different ways that students are able to incorporate them in their everyday lives!
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKvGgb3YcDQ
This instructional video is an audio reading of the book “What Does It Mean To Be Green?” which teaches children the multiple ways that they can “be green” by reducing, reusing, and recycling in their everyday lives, which helps save the world’s natural resources!
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyNPa37G_2s
This graphic organizer would be used in a lesson towards the end of the thematic unit. As a class, we would work together to fill out the graphic organizer. I would have a copy projected onto the Smart Board, and each student would have their own physical copy in front of them. As a class, we would work together to channel all the information we have learned through our research on reducing, reusing, and recycling materials, and list them in the appropriate boxes next to each question.
This visual will help enhance student understanding of the topic, because it depicts the earth with three separate thought bubbles. Each thought bubble asks a question that would help the earth to stay green and clean. The students will get the visual importance of these questions, and also importance and differences between reducing waste, reusing materials, and recycling objects.