You can ask your students to contribute to the assessment rubric by determining how many suggestions for future methods should be included. Back to Top One Family's Trash Collect the solid wastes that accumulate in your home during a given week, and then bring them into class. Make sure that they use rubber gloves when handling the waste. When the trash has been sorted, they should weigh the collected materials in each category. Students can then extrapolate to determine how much waste each member of your family generates in each category in a given year.
Students can then analyze the data, creating a pie chart to illustrate what they've discovered.
An Ideal Home Ask your students to use their imaginations to design an ideal home that is as eco-friendly as possible. The students can then post their drawings around the room and examine each other's work. Conclude the lesson with a discussion of the merits and drawbacks of the various designs. Harry N. Abrams and Times Mirror Magazines in association with the Smithsonian Institution, 1995. Fabulous full-page colored photographs and illustrations make these essays on the oceans and the problems facing them come alive.