Monday, August 12

Yes, we are still learning about trash!

And good morning. I hope everyone had a good -- long -- weekend and survived Thursday's power outage okay.

Before we finish watching Waste Land, you are going to learn a little about recycling and how it helps reduce the gross effects of landfills that we have been reading and watching about! It's also why we recycle cans in class (oh, and because I get money from your cans and eventually will have enough to have a pizza party or something). ;)

So...go to this website:

http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00442/wu3rs.htm

In your blogs, answer the following questions.
Blog TITLE: Why I recycle!
Blog assignment:
1. How much trash does one American produce each year?
2. There are many reasons to reduce, reuse, and recycle. These reasons are:
**Saving Space
**Saving Natural Resources
**Saving Energy
**Reducing Pollution
Explain how the three R's help with each of these reasons in at least one sentence.
3. What does it mean to reduce? Explain in at least one sentence.
4. What does it mean to reuse? Explain in at least one sentence.
5. What does it mean to recycle? Explain in at least one sentence.
6. List one fact about each of the following:
**Garbage
**Paper
**Landfils
**Recycling
**Energy