Malchow's Tech Bytes 👩🏻‍💻~ Earth Day edition 🌎

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🌎 Tech Bytes ~ April 16th -20th 🌎

This week's Tech Bytes has several resources for Earth Day that incorporate the 4Cs~ Creation, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, and Content Consumption!

14+" of snow since early Saturday morning in NE Wisconsin and it's STILL snowing! Another 12-15" coming over next 24 hrs! Ugh! 

Literally feeling like this:

The view out my front door Saturday morning~
14" of fresh snow~ poor Beamer!

The view out my front door Sunday afternoon
after an additional 7" of snow fell and it's still snowing!

In celebration of Earth Day we read The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. Then the entire 1st grade divided up into different groups to complete 1 piece of the bulletin board you see above. Each group represented 1 of the animals in the story.They also created a speech bubble to tell how we could help to keep our planet clean or how we could help preserve the habitats of their specific character.

My kiddos also worked on the app, The Lorax Garden, which was free for Earth Day but is now 99 cents. In this app, students help the Lorax regrow the Truffula Tree forest. This was a great tie-in with our current science unit on Organisms as we had recently planted seeds in our classroom. Students are checking on their virtual gardens first thing every morning and before recess to continue to water them and watch them grow.

Earth Day

Sorry for such a quick post tonight but it is getting late. As I was searching for Earth Day resources tonight I came across this site. My kiddos last year enjoyed the Michael Michael Go Recycle game. Click on the picture to go to the site.