It's hard to believe that 2010 & 2009 were 4 and 5 years ago. Here's a TBT: Throw Back Thursday to Green Team Gaette when it was in its newsletter infancy (aka: pre-blog!)
Showing posts with label monthly GTG newsletters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monthly GTG newsletters. Show all posts
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Blast From the Past: May Green Team Gazette Newsletters
A triumvirate of May Day specials with the May Green Team Gazettes from 2009, 2010, 2011. Some eco facts and figures are always in bloom and always in season, no matter what year it is!!
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Blast From The Past: March Green Team Gazette Newsletters
As I mentioned earlier this week, I've been doing a little tripping down GTG's memory lane, archiving as I go. Here are 3 seasons of March Green Team Gazettes from circa 2009--2011, highlighting some of the annual eco events coming up: World Water Day (Saturday, March 22nd this year) and
Earth Hour (Saturday, March 29th from 8:30--9:30 in your time zone)!
Earth Hour (Saturday, March 29th from 8:30--9:30 in your time zone)!
Friday, July 8, 2011
D = Displaying Data #GETABC
D is for Displaying Data (Part 1 of a "D" Duo) There's a dynamic duo for the letter D, both by way of Washington, DC. Start today with Part 1...Grab some real-world numbers, then input the detailed data using the National Center for Education Statistics' "Create a Graph" Website to make a dynamic display:
We all know that graphing is an essential math skill. The "Create a Graph" website is wonderfully kid-friendly, and the site takes kids step-by-step through the process of creating very polished graphs. Provide your students with a set of data, then let them chose whether they want to make a bar, line, area, pie or xy graph.
I've had incredible success with this site and my 3rd graders if I provide them with a detailed list of instructions. Check out page 2 of my Slideshare document below or click here to see the directions & graphing instructions for "Computer Graph Attack: Graphing Waste Per Person, Per Pound, Per Country." Go the extra mile by having students do the activity, graphing the waste per capita per country.
Environmental Education Applications:
Math & Science go hand in hand, so of course that includes environmental science. Here are some good places to find data.If need be, create instruction lists of your own patterned off of the example here.
--FactMonster.com has a lot of graph-worthy, statistical information that is kid-friendly, such as The Least & Most Polluting Vehicles. Other FactMonster eco-data can be found here, by theme or at World and News.
--Environmental Information for Kids from People Powered Machines has kid-centric data too.
--Find EPA data sets from here.
Note: In an attempt to meld my pursuits of Green, Education, and Technology, "GET" and this ABC series began...as did my twitter thread #GETABC. To see the inception of #GETABC and give yourself a tidbit of background, go to GTG's True Confessions & Whirling Dervishes.
Photo from listed website and "D" photo from http://www.balloonmaniacs.com. un
Monday, May 16, 2011
Springing out With May GTG's Newsletter
Ei yie yie...how did it not only get to be May, let alone well past the middle of May?!?At long last, here is the May Monthly Green Team Gazette Newsletter.
Feature this month are some good Earth Day follow Ups:
- Post-Earth Day May
- Home Aqua Audit (Do a home audit of your water usage)
- Green Forever Stamps (From the Post Office)
- Do the Math (turn your "Green Forever Stamp Study" into a math exercise)
To Land yourself on the GTG News- letter for May, go to Saturday, April 9, 2011
Why Reinvent The Wheel à la Earth Day?
Looking at the calendar, thinking about Earth Day (a mere 13 days away), and GTG, it struck me:
Why reinvent the wheel?
Where best to peruse Earth Day ideas but some of my own perennial favorites?
Click here to land on a load of Earth Day ideas here in the last 15 months of GTG history (or go to http://greenteamgazette.blogspot.com/search/label/Earth%20Day)
GTG Past Earth Day Highlights include:
- Mega Resources, via PlanetPals, Earthday.net, the Elmer's Glue Crew, A-to-Z Teacher, and more!
- Green Team Gazette's from 2010 & 2009
- Our very favorite superhero "Michael Recycle!"
- Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: "I am the Lorax, and I'll yell and I'll shout for the fine things on earth that are on their way out!"
- Past Eagle Cove School Earth Day Events & Activities
Saturday, April 2, 2011
April's GTG Newsletter is Out & Earth Day Ready!
It's a brand new month so that means it's time for the this month's GTG newsletter.This month's find features April 22nd & Earth Day:
- Going Loftily with The Lorax by Dr. Seuss & a quadruplet of resource-filled links.
- Hip Hip Hooray...It's Earth Day & here's an acrostic that you and your students can write.
- Earth Day Math printable with both fun facts and math facts related to the importance of being eco-friendly!
Click the title above, or here: http://www.eaglecoveschool.org/library/resources/GreenTeamGazettes/GTG2010-2011/GreenTeamGazette3.8April2011.pdf
For past GTG Earth Day ideas, be sure to check out the "Earth Day" GTG Cloud Labels on the Green Team Gazette home page.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
March's GTG Newsletter is Out & About!
It's March 1st, so the March Green Team Gazette Newsletter is out!
Big surprise to no one: it heavily hits Earth Hour,
which is a mere 25 days away!!
which is a mere 25 days away!!
Included with websites and basic EH-info
is a brainstorming sheet to use in classrooms
for any Earth Hour writing you may want to do!
is a brainstorming sheet to use in classrooms
for any Earth Hour writing you may want to do!
Click the title above, or go to http://www.eaglecoveschool.org/library/resources/GreenTeamGazettes/GTG2010-2011/GreenTeamGazette3.7March2011.pdf.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
February 2011's Green Team Gazette's Monthly Newsletter
It's February...
a new month and time for a new GTG newsletter!
This month's features:- Eco-eResources, Part Deux (A follow up to January's eResources)
- Ratings: US & Green Transport (green geography based on how states use their transportational $$)
- Love Books? Then Think I.N.K. (Nonfiction book finds and teaching resources)
- Hug It Forward (Learn more about "Bottle Schools")
- Love Your Lights: By Turning Them Out (A graphing activity to get ready for next month's "Earth Hour")
Saturday, January 1, 2011
January 2011's Green Team Gazette Monthly Newsletter
Happy New Year! The January 2011 Green Team Gazette Newsletter has hit the eNewsstands!
In it this month, you’ll find the following green goodies:
--Ringing in the New Year w/Some Rocking eResources
--PreCycle & Planet Pals
(Why “Re”cycle when you can “Pre”vent waste?!)
--Terracycle Curriculum Series (as created by the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education)
--Computer Graph Attack using NCES’s graphing website (which is perfect for kids). Data included for students to graph the waste per capita per country.
To download the GTG January 2011 newsletter,
click the title above, or go to http://www.eaglecoveschool.org/library/resources/GreenTeamGazettes/GTG2010-2011/GreenTeamGazette3.5January2011.pdf
Saturday, December 4, 2010
December's GTG Newletter Has Hit the Stands
Hot off the presses.... December's Green Team Gazette Newsletter is out!
Given it's the season of giving, this month's GTG is dedicated to helping you encourage your youngsters to think a little lighter on the side of consumption and packaging, by encouraging the 3R's.
This month's highlights include:
- Marvy Multiplication (with a "Landfill & Trash" slant)
- Re-Thinking the Grinch (and link it to Annie Leonard's "The Story of Stuff")
- Reduce, Reuse, and Wrap It Up (creative wrapping ideas with leftover items)
- From Landfill-Lover to Eco-Warrior Board Game (a "Chutes and Ladder's" Style of slippery slides to total transformation!)
To download the GTG December newsletter, go to http://www.eaglecoveschool.org/library/resources/greenteamgazettes/gtg2010-2011/greenteamgazette3.4december2010.pdf
Monday, November 8, 2010
November 2010 Green Team Gazette
It's November and it's time for a new month's newsletter Green Team Gazette!This month's highlights:
- Harvest Time & a season of overeating
- Top 5 "Must See" Food DVD's
- "Fish Free Fridays" à la the Plastiki
- The "Dirty Dozen" Grocery Grid
Sunday, September 26, 2010
The Latest Green Team Gazettes
- Plastiki
- "Sherman's Lagoon"
- Environmental books for kids
- How river pollution impacts the oceanic garbage patches
- The water cycle
- And new feature--monthly reproducible to link & build your students' creativity, critical thinking skills, and environmental awareness!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
#17 Green Team Gazette Summer 2010
The 92 Days of Summer!! Welcome to summer and to the Summer 2010's Green Team Gazette! Click the title above, or go to http://www.gics.org/Green%20Team%20Gazettes/Green%20Team%20Gazette%20Summer%202010.pdf
Thursday, May 6, 2010
#16 May Green Team Gazette
Thursday, April 1, 2010
April's Green Team Gazette
Click the title above or go to website http://www.gics.org/Green%20Team%20Gazettes/Green%20Team%20Gazette%2004_10.pdf
Thursday, March 4, 2010
#14 March 2010 Green Team Gazette
picture from www.earthhour.org
Monday, February 1, 2010
#13 February 2010 Green Team Gazette
Click "#13 February 2010" above for the Green Team Gazette's "Rainy Days Edition:" Raingardens, Rain barrels, Watersheds, Oh My!
Friday, January 1, 2010
#12 January 2010 Green Team Gazette
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
#11 December 2009 Green Team Gazette
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