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Composting with Kids!

Composting with Kids!. Katie Hunter Dallas Cabrices Shaneika Edmond. What is Composting?. Composting is an environmentally-friendly practice that involves the breaking down of materials to a natural state.

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Composting with Kids!

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  1. Composting with Kids! Katie Hunter Dallas Cabrices Shaneika Edmond

  2. What is Composting? • Composting is an environmentally-friendly practice that involves the breaking down of materials to a natural state. • Composting is a great way to reduce the amount of waste in landfills, while also creating more nutrient-rich soil for plant growth.

  3. Community Context Barrow Elementary Green School Program (places emphasis on environmental education). Impact of school practices on global community. 4th Grade Gifted Enrichment opportunity to extend learning of life sciences beyond the standards. Inquiry Based Learning

  4. Community Need • Lack of land space on school campus. - Symbolic of waste on a global scale. • As part of a Green School Program, promoting environmental education and responsibility is a priority.

  5. Service • Raise awareness about environmentally-friendly practices. • Encourage composting as an alternative and natural method of recycling.

  6. Reflection Students have explored composting as natural method of waste recycling and have participated in their own composting program.

  7. Assessment/Evaluation

  8. What do you know about composting? What do you know about Service-Learning?

  9. Throughout the project, the students partook in experiments to discover what happens during composting. From these experiences, the students created their own knowledge and then worked together to share this new knowledge with others. Participant Learning Terminology Decomposition Experiments Composting recipe cards Compost bottles Sorting Activity Worm Bin Bin Clean-Up http://animoto.com/play/us2Q4vjs0rhewqt9JlJJhQ

  10. - Celebrate all that we have explored and learned • "Compost-Friendly" Food- Fruit and Veggie Trays. • - Make Dirt Cups with pudding, oreos, and gummi worms • - Showcase student work Celebration

  11. Barrow Television (BTV) • Assembly Awards • Newspaper article • Letters to local community members. Recognition/Publicity

  12. How has our understanding of the community changed as result of participation in project in service and learning? What difference has the project made for us? - Finding out how composting really does make a difference at a local and nation-wide level. -How the kids are genuinely interested and the new perspectives that can carry on into their everyday lives as future adults. -Providing rich experiences and exploring learning opportunities with creative and brilliant children is personally rewarding.  ... for the participants (kids)     -Kids see themselves as vital part of helping out community.      -Learning unique and innovative ways to compost, and becoming                  educated about the process and its positive effects.  ... for the community?     -being influenced by students' taking eco-active initiative in              community.     -community gains compost for local gardens, etc. Conclusion

  13. The End

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