*FYI--I responded to your comment about the post from the in-class activity, but in case you didn't see the response from awhile back, that post is below aways in purple font. Thanks!

This week in field placement my class continued their science/social studies unit on the earth. They learned about earth day, and how we can celebrate our earth. The students reviewed the "3R's", which they have been learning about, and talked about how recyclying is taking items to be remade into new items, that reusing is to use something over again, and reducing is to use less of something. They talked about how their families and the school recycles cans, newspapers, and plastic bags as examples, and how they reused bags, boxes, scrap paper, wood, jars, etc. The class had a discussion about how they could reduce their use of certain items, and came up with several great ideas including-turning lights off when they aren't in a room, not letting water run unnecessarily, using less paper, etc. This was a great discussion because it really encouraged inquiry from the kids and they were engaged and actively contributed to the lesson, came up with their own ideas, activated prior knowledge, and connected the lesson to real world examples-and also showed how they could connect what they learned to their own life in such simple ways. They also talked about celebrating the earth by planting trees, picking up trash, and not polluting-which are all ways that they personally can help take care of the earth. The kids enjoyed this lesson greatly. There classroom is currently decorated with hanging "earth people"-the kids made portraits of themselves from construction paper with cut out globes as their tummies-cute! The kids are also currently working on constructing/writing their own earth books, titled "Earth First!". The kids fill in the blanks with their own ideas to responses such as "I will help the earth by________" and "I will save the earth by_________".