Here are some web sites related to sustainability. Today in class, you will visit some specific areas of these sites with a partner, but you can revisit them any time from home to explore some more. (At home, you can turn the volume up as loud as you like, but at school, please keep [...]
Room 231 students ……… Remember the man that first discovered the North Pacific Gyre? Mr Charles Moore?
Please watch this YouTube video. It’s Mr Charles Moore talking to an audience about the plastic that is floating in our oceans. After watching this video, I want you leave a 3, 2, 1 comment on this post.
3 things [...]
Yesterday we read an article about plastic afloat in the ocean. In particular, we found out about a huge gyre of plastic, twice the size of Texas, that has formed in the Pacific Ocean, close to Hawaii.
You can read more details about the gyre and other interesting Current Events that we have been collecting for [...]
We are going to combine our non-fiction reading strategies with our Sustainability unit to learn about some current events around the world.
Using Google Maps, we will collaborate as a class to create a map with news that we find.
On the left side of the blog, under “Pages”, you can see a link to our map [...]
Hey there Room 231 ……
Take a look at this blog post by a 7 year old girl. Yes, that’s right, click on this link here and read the blog post written by a 7 year old!
I’d like to know what you think about what she’s saying. Do you agree? Do you disagree? Do you have [...]
