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Reduce: Paper Monitor Activity

for Grades K-2

How is paper made? How can we conserve paper?

• Research how paper is made at websites such as Fun Facts, Let’s Make Paper and video at paperrecycles.org. Learn how to make paper using this guide and video. (Internet, Online tools / NETS 1, 4)
• Discuss and list, with students, ways paper is used in the classroom. Monitor its’ usage by graphing 5 of the top ways students have compiled over a two week period. Follow-up with discussion of conservation suggestions from students. (Spreadsheet / NETS 2, 4)
• Construct posters to post in the classroom from the conservation suggestions. (Drawing / NETS 2)
• Extend the monitoring and graphing of paper usage at students’ homes. Follow-up with discussion and research on ways to conserve paper use at home. (Spreadsheet, Internet / NETS 1, 2, 4)
• Develop a class newsletter to share the ideas for paper conservation at school and at home. (Word Processing, Desktop Publishing / NETS 2, 3)

Indiana Standards:

English/Language Arts

• Standard 2: Reading and Analysis of Nonfiction and Informational Text
• Standard 4: Writing Process and Features
• Standard 5: Writing Applications
• Standard 7: Listening and Speaking: Skills, Strategies, and Applications

Science

• Standard 5: The Mathematical World

This "Go Green" resource was developed by Buddy for an eco-education initiative, "Green Connections: Learning and Living." This initiative will run from February 1 through Earth Day on April 22, 2009.

This resource appeared in the ETC...and More! volume 2, number 5 newsletter and is published by the Buddy Project (Corporation for Educational Technology), in collaboration with the Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators (HECC), Indiana Computer Educators (ICE), the Indiana Department of Education, and Promoting Achievement through Technology and INstruction for all Students (PATINS).