Social+Studies+Project


 * Oct. 1st week**. Sent home note about recycling plastic containers from each student for 1 week. Each family is to rinse and collect all the plastic bottles that they would normally throw in the trash. Students listed reasons how recycling helps people and animals. Students formed a KWL chart and wondered where the plastic will go after we collected it. We discussed where we could go to find out. I contacted the cummunity sanitation department about information on how the plastics are collected and where they go from here.

We collected all the plastic we could from home. Then we sorted the plastic into groups by the color of the plastic. We removed the covers.
 * October 12th-Oct15th**

We helped our community by recycling plastic. If we don't recycle garbage it will just multiply and cause harm to our environment.

We found ways to reuse some of the plastc. 1. Make them into scoopers. 2. Reuse the water bottles with water. 3. Create a pop up game with 1 milk jug and 1water bottle. 4. Freeze ice in the milk jugs. 5. Make and reuse as a pouring pitcher.

We are researching where the plastic will go from there.

We worked in small groups and counted how many items were in each group. We counted the green plastic items and white plastic items by ones. When we tried to count the clear plastic items by ones we had a lot of trouble so we found another way to count them We tried counting by 2's and still had trouble. We then decided to put them into groups of tens and count them by tens.
 * Oct. 19th Tuesday**

We collected 26 white plastic items, 13 green plastic items, 103 clear plastic items. We then put them in order from greatest to least and least to greatest.

We are now sending these items to Dependable Sanitation. We will pick a day to visit Dependable Sanitation.
 * Friday, October 30th, 2010**