School Community Gardens August 21, 2009

Hi Everyone I hope you’re all having a great start to the fall. I wanted to share the power point presentation by Katie Den Ouden – some of you have been asking for resources to school gardens, and I hope this will provide you with some useful information. I’m sorry it took me awhile to [...]

Thoughts and Stuff Kirk Ranney July 23, 2009

Kirk Ranney Class Discussion Reflection Throughout the course of this class, both the readings and the in-class discussions have really forced me to do quite a bit of thinking.  Not only about my contribution to solving the ills of the world, but more importantly how the issues we have discussed relate to my fledgling teaching [...]

An Overall Reflection by Stacey Ford July 23, 2009

Looking back over the past two weeks and all of our intense debates and conversations one main idea has often struck me, what can we do? As educators I believe it is our task to inform students how they can make a difference. Students enjoy having control and being able to witness their “positive” effect [...]

Water Lesson “secret of water” July 23, 2009

I dont know how many of you have seen the movie “What the BLEEP do we know” but it is about modern quantum physics, with a section about water and the effects humans can have on it, both positive and negative. In the movie there is a scientist named Dr. Masaru Emoto and he has [...]

Teaching Elementary Students about Climate Change July 23, 2009

Hello everyone, this is Shannon Cooper’s blog.   Most of the recent talk in our class has been around climate change.  We have read articles that detail the warnings about the environmental and human consequences, visited the NOAA building and the museum to apply it to the real world, and had a class debate about whether [...]

Teaching the unteachable – Leslie Kaup July 22, 2009

It seems that there are many touchy or controversial issues that are often neglected in the school system. For our group we read the chapter on Rwanda. In our class discussion on the topic, we talked about the difficulty and scarcity of elementary education covering issues of genocide such as Rwanda and the Holocaust. The [...]

Policy Regarding Water Recycling – Susan July 22, 2009

The article I found from the Clean Water Coalition is about the policy regarding water recycling.  It has graphs to show water resources and water usage.  It mainly covers recycled water.  Las Vegas has 40% of its water coming from recycled water.  The remaining amount divides into 10% groundwater and 90% from the Colorado River.  [...]

China & the “One Child” Policy – Susan Stablein July 22, 2009

China reminds me of the time that the United States had several negative environmental issues in the news.  This occurred during the seventies.  From what I remember, the US was poisoning rivers and ruining natural resources until enough people spoke out against it.  Then, we started trying to conserve our resources.  I think China can look at our history and [...]

Climate Change – Danielle Depue July 22, 2009

Today’s reading and discussion showed me how important it is for our society to work together for the common good of creating a stable environment. As educators, we have the opportunity to provide students with knowledge about pressing issues, to guide students towards creating solutions, and to encourage students to be proactive in their role [...]

How Clean Are Our Beaches? – Michael Elliott July 22, 2009

One drawback of living in Denver is the tremendous difficulty involved in planning a trip to the seaside! Going to the beach was a major part of my childhood in both England and on holidays in Europe. When looking at the different issues in class surrounding water quality in the twenty-first century, a couple of stories came [...]