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WASTE DEEP:
Standards Aligned Lessons to Motivate Middle and High School Students to Recycle
If you're reading this newsletter,
we know you
care deeply about recycling and sustainable habits. But what about your middle and high school students? Meh? Not so much? Students in this age group don't always have the motivation to follow through with recycling practices.
Waste Deep explores some of the larger concepts behind waste, so students can consider whether it feels important to them to recycle.
WASTE DEEP OVERVIEW
The Waste Deep series for middle school and high school students takes an in-depth look at the economic, social, and environmental impacts of waste on New York City and the world and guides students through understanding the issues to creating a solution in their school using a project based learning model.
Phase 1 Students review a set of issue cards containing facts, quotes, political cartoons, lyrics, statistics, images and other media, to gain a holistic understanding of the deeper issues behind the decisions to consume and discard products as individuals and as a society.
Phase 2 Students explore solutions and practice the art of persuasion to convince classmates of a simple action they can take today.
Phase 3
T
he power is put back into the students hands as they engage in sustained inquiry to develop a solution that leads to greater recycling participation throughout the entire school.
All Waste Deep materials are available to download for free on our website...and we will be adding more facilitation guides soon!
We look forward to hearing from you about your experience using the materials and different ways you have used the content to fit within your curriculum. Please be sure to fill out our online feedback form found on the same page as the Waste Deep materials. Your input will make a difference in how we present these materials.
Oh, and the issues cards are not only great for students; they also work very well to motivate adults to recycle and to incorporate waste related topics in their teaching. So share them with your entire staff at a faculty PD, as part of a team meeting, or by forwarding this newsletter.
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GROWNYC ANNUAL REPORT
Check out GrowNYC's 2017 Annual Report to see all the incredible things YOU helped make happen last year! We hope you're as proud as we are!
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DOE SUSTAINABILITY SHOWCASE
Join the DOE Office of Sustainability in recognizing the extraordinary things that students, teachers, administrators, building staff, partner organizations and YOU are doing to pave the way to greater school sustainability.
Win cash prizes and raffles.
This free event is open to all DOE staff.
Interested in showcasing your school's sustainability projects? Questions?
email:
sustainability@schools.nyc.gov
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POST TO WIN A PIZZA PARTY!
Post a picture of your Green Team in action on the
Zero Waste Schools
website
for a chance to win. Don't have an account? Signing up is easy.
View our short video
for step by step sign up instructions. You will be posting--and maybe winning--in no time!
Win a pizza party for your Green Team or class and Zero Waste Schools pencils for your school.
To win prizes, post a picture of recycling efforts in your school that go above and beyond the usual daily routines. Tag your entry #AboveAndBeyond.
Entries due by March 16.
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CONGRATULATIONS #TeamWorkMakesTheDreamWork WINNERS
Participants were asked to take a picture of their green team and to post a video or text of an interview with their Custodian Engineer or Principal. To see the winner's posts and to read their interview responses, log in to
nyc.gov/zws
today!
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Clockwise from top left: PS 20 John Bowne, PS 327 Dr. Rose B. English,
K721 Brooklyn OTC, PS 78 Stapleton, PS 221 The North Hills School
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Announcing the Spring 2018 Green Team Mini-Grants! Due March 23.
The New York City Department of Sanitation and Citizens Committee for New York City are awarding up to $500 to school green teams!
Grants must be used for green team expenses such as recycling and garden projects, t-shirts/uniforms, school sustainability events, and eco-friendly giveaways. Preference will be given to recycling or waste related projects.
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NYC P-Credits through Green Beetz
1 P Credit (12 hours of CTLE)
Green Beetz teaches kids about science, math, culture and the environment through the lens of food. This professional development course focuses on systems thinking in the classroom through the lens of their curriculum.
The course is designed for teachers working with students at the 5th or 6th grade level who are currently teaching, have taught or plan to teach Green Beetz in the future.
For more information on the course, to view the full syllabus, and to register, please visit the
ASPDP course catalog.
Registration is currently open and closes on March 30th.
Course Dates--
Online: 4 hours total need to be completed at teachers discretion between March 31st - April 21st.
In-Person: April 28th, Manhattan
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Win up to $5000!
Show your students' creativity by re-purposing milk and juice cartons from your school cafeteria to either build or enhance your school garden. Educators can engage students in a hands-on experience creating teachable moments on environmental stewardship, sustainable packaging and healthy living.
The best use of cartons in a school garden gives your school the chance to win one of 14 prizes with a grand prize valued at $5,000. Entries are due by April 16.
Click here for contest details.
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Through April 29, Thurs. - Sun., 12:00 - 6:00 pm
City Reliquary, 370 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn
This exhibition presents the stories behind New York City's solid waste, trcing the trajectory of waste management in New York from the squalid 19th-century tenements documented by Jacob Riis to the Dead Horse Bay landfill and the beginnings of the NYC Department of Sanitation at the turn of the century, and the mid-century landfill of Fresh Kills on Staten Island.
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