Talking Trash: Landfills

Today I was researching about recycling projects and I found this article about landfills. To see why recycling, reusing and reducing are important we must first see the horrible effects that occur. Many students are misinformed about where all the trash goes when they take it out the the curb. These big heaps of trash are just dumped into a hole in the ground, just to sit and hopefully decompose. The trash "needs oxygen and moisture in order to break down, (and) materials that are buried in a landfill will not decompose very soon. As a matter of fact, when workers dig up old landfills, they often find magazines and newspapers that are still readable! ".The buried trash leaks into our ground water, contaminating drinking water supplies.

How can we Create Change in our Communities

My overall topic is creating change in our communities. Students will research ways that the environment is being depleted. Topics such as oil drilling, endangered marine life and hurricanes shaping coastlines. These are topics I have researched, but students may even come up with different interesting issues. I choose this topic because I care about our planet and want to foster the same drive in my students. I am still exploring more ideas of how I can expand this across lessons and through a service learning project.

All about me :-)

Hello Everyone,
I am a student at Salem State College and I am enrolled in the Elementary Education Teacher Program. I am currently in junior block in a Social Studies for Elementary Teachers seminar. On this blog I have decided to talk about students participating in making changes in their communities. I will integrate a service learning project as well as a lesson plan that can be integrated into an elementary classroom.

Sincerely, Felicia