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Less Plastic, Shutting Off More Lights and a 3 Month Transition

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This February, I made a commitment to help reduce my carbon footprint on the Earth. Ultimately, I decided to focus on two main things- turning off the lights and reducing my use of single-use plastics. I wrote two separate sections, one a month into the change and one now, as the official project is coming to an end. March 13, 2018. Things I have noticed: As I am now about a month into this lifestyle change, I have some observations i n the form of a stream-of-consciousness I thought I was good about shutting lights off before- I was far from perfect. I never went out of my way to shut off all the lights in the classrooms down the hall, and I often would not shut things off if I was coming back in the next hour.  Turning off the lights and the projector and all has become a habit. So much so that I shut the lights off on a coworker who I did not notice was sitting there :D.  While he found it funny, I determined that now that a habit has formed, it is time to employ
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Recent Science Reading

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My favorite way to engage students after school breaks is to have them look online, find something that happened to them while over break and then write a summary of it. I always frame it as "while on break you might have stoped working but science defiantly did not!". Sometimes I also structure it a bit more and give them guiding questions to help them follow along with the readings better and/or I give them a few specific articles to choose from within a variety of science topics- including conservation! Here is the assignment sheet I handed out by sharing it with them online and telling them to make  a copy of it to work from in their google drive accounts! Recent Science Reading Have fun and share the results with me, I would love to hear what they found!
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Graphic Textbook

Hi All! Here is the assignment sheet and rubric for the graphic textbook project- comment with questions or suggestions! The students were challenged to make a graphic textbook to showcase different biomes/ecosystems within the oceans- check out the assignment: Assignment Sheet Rubric Examples from Maris Wicks
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Ideas, ideas, ideas

Have any great lessons to share?! Comment on any blog post and I will create a brand new post to highlight it! The more pictures the merrier:)
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Hi! Welcome!

Hi and welcome to Conservation Classroom! I am Carissa, a middle school science teacher from Boston and a Masters student with Project Dragonfly at Miami Ohio. I created this page to help educators share the ways in which they are integrating conservation lessons into their classrooms, and create a place to share our successes. I strongly believe that while there is not a "Conservation class" in most schools, the ideas and lessons that are shared through conservation can easily be a part of every class from english to art to science and history. So...let's see what we find!
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