This Wednesday, we created communities out of recyclables with the middle schoolers. I was very pleased to see how involved the kids were with this activity. In the group that I worked with, we let the kids take total control. They asked for help when they needed it (mainly cutting out windows or drawing on film canister cars). They had great ideas, starting from simple then progressing to the complicated. The outcome was a great and complex little main street. They wanted to get into the details before the basics, so we sneakily advised them otherwise. They even went as far as to make solar panels out of hersey kisses wrappers and an electric car charging station! It was great. I can't really find a way to relate this experience to what Michael Duffin was lecturing about. He lectured about what we do in our class, but on a much larger scale. Same idea, but bigger. From what I can see,we relate by the increase in environmental awareness in the Casey kids.
Chelsea
4 April 2008
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