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Our student examples (aim for 30 seconds)

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Do you want to know how to engage ALL students? Give them, what I call a Triple R Project and have them create an As Seen On Cougar Kitchen video using our Go Pro camera.

We started with the Padlet lesson on the triple Rs, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We practiced identifying reused or recycled items from the pictures in padlet. We also looked at some cool recycling apps like Recycle Bank that reward you with points that can be redeemed for gift cards for recycling. Students liked the idea. I discussed ways to use up leftover foods in new dishes and some students shared ways their moms did it at home.

Finally groups chose random items I collected at home and school. I placed the assortment up for grabs on the demo table and students were free to let their imagination run wild. There were some very unusual ways to reuse these items into cool prototypes for their infomercial.

I found the Handy Dandy Hand, the Cat Pee Pee Shaker and the Winner, Winner Dinner Spinner to be to be very unusual. These students have some great ideas that could be patented.

After creating their prototype, their assignment was to write a descriptive paragraph detailing what the product does, how it helps someone, what it can do and any other possibilities. After watching the Bacon Bowl youtube and Bananalicilious, students saw how over the top descriptions and details were better and enticed more customers. Also, the creative title and price is important. Some infomercials offered 2 for the price of 1 and some students chose to go that route if the product was small.

And now the drum roll please, the following products are only available

AS SEEN ON COUGAR KITCHEN...

Spinner, Spinner, Dinner Winner (Click here, don't miss this one on Google Drive)

I enjoyed watching students who might otherwise frown upon the Triple Rs if it they weren't given a hands-on project like this one. Though the prototypes varied in creativity and effort, every group produced an infomercial which lets me know they enjoy this type of project and learning. Way to go Foods 1 students for engaging yourself into reduce, recycle and reusing.

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Do you want to know how to engage ALL students? Give them, what I call a Triple R Project and have them create an As Seen On Cougar Kitchen video using our Go Pro camera. We started with the Padlet...

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Reusing leftover holiday ham and veggies for soup the next day conserves money.

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Fabric or net bags for grocery shopping instead of paper or plastic.

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An Italian restaurants installs low-flow faucets, energy efficient appliances and sealing windows and doors to conserve power

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Running the dishwasher only when it is full reduces water

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Less Trash in Landfills

Using less non-renewable resources

Decreasing cost

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A cereal company changed their large box packaging to just a bag.

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Use your random item(s) and choose ways to GO GREEN! Brainstorm creative, innovative ways and show the class. How can you reduce it, reuse or recycle it? More Rs equals more creative points.

Title of item Gone Green 10 points

Creative Uses 30 points30 second infomercial (how it works) 50 pointsGroup Participation 10 points

Total Points 100

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Newspapers

Plastic bottles

Aluminum cans

What else can you recycle?

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Recycling and waste diversion rules can vary from one city to the next, so we want to make sure we're sharing the right information with you.

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RecycleNation's New Innovative Mobile App

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My Recycling Story allows you to track your recycling progress and quantify your effect on the environment

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My starry eyes chart is one way I keep track of behavior, but I also think using incentives for positive behavior is a wonderful way to motivate students to do the right thing. The system I use to reward the entire class for positive behavior is called Brownie Points! I attached magnet strips to the back of a small metal pan so it hangs on our white board. The students earn brownies by getting compliments for great behavior from other teachers, working together as a class on assignments, hard work from all students during literacy or math stations, or just any other thing they do as a class that shows great first grade behavior! When the pan is full of brownies, the kids get a party to celebrate their hard work!

{If you would like to use the Brownie Points reward system in your classroom...click the sign above!}

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My starry eyes chart is one way I keep track of behavior, but I also think using incentives for positive behavior is a wonderful way to motivate students to do the right thing. The system I use to reward the entire class for positive behavior is called Brownie Points!