Podcast: Marissa's Podcast Script! :)

Welcome Parents of third graders at Silver Lake Elementary. This podcast is just for you as parents to know what your children are up to in the classrooms. I’m Ms. Ingle one of the three third grade teachers in our school district.

We are working our way through a unit on recycling. We are incorporating many subject areas in the work that the students are completing. We are calling the combinations of subject areas, and uses of technology, and multiple learning styles addressed in our unit: Project Based Learning. This is a new movement in the teaching world where students take a larger role in the learning process with different pieces of a whole to compete a collaborative work of art.
Recycling is a large concept to undertake, and we as a group of teachers are working together to make this unit seem cohesive. I have begun the unit with helping the students learn to research effectively in our school’s computer lab, organize and understand where and what can be recycled at certain places in their community.
Students will have already begun brainstorming and researching about where they can recycle, what they can recycle, and they are also completing surveys from other students and teachers in the school to see where they recycle their recyclable materials.
This unit has posed for amazing learning experiences to happen in the classroom. Students are becoming more fluent in their computer skills, and they communicate with their classmates to present their findings from research. And lastly, students are using their social skills to interview peers, teachers and even family members to gain a deeper understanding of the necessity of recycling in our local community.
This unit will open our student’s eyes about the global impact that they can have by starting recycling programs in their school and community to better the world they live in.

Now, I’d like to introduce Ms. Hitt who will be introducing what students are up to in the classroom with projects and ideas about what recycling can mean to them directly here in their own classrooms.