species, recycling and waste, pollution, climate change, urban sprawl, and more. Collectively, students prevented the use of over 500 pieces of paper in their classrooms and kept upwards of 20 pounds of paper from being thrown out, ensuring that it was recycled instead. Additionally, students contributed to 25 pounds of plastic being pulled from the ocean, prevented the use of 50,000+ straws and plastic bags, and recycled over 100 plastic water bottles and over 100 chip bags that had to be sent to a special recycling facility. Students also kept over 50 pounds of textile waste from entering landfills, raised 40 dollars for panda conservation, and kept approximately 20 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. As part of their final projects, many students also created impactful products including social media campaign content; t-shirt rugs out of textile waste; informative flyers, bookmarks, brochures, and websites; board games; a wind turbine; a petition to save the Amur Leop- ard sent to the government; three different fruit-producing plants; two short films/documentaries; and a menu and YouTube channel for aspiring vegans. Finally, students established partnerships with companies including 4Ocean and Duke Energy, both of which donated goods for the students to meet their project goals.
Figure 8 Requirement 7 {Peer Comments}: DUE one week after each blog post due date
• Each week for homework, you will visit two blog posts that were due the week before and make meaningful comments. A meaningful comment means giving one “glow” (something they did well or that you found interesting) as well as a “grow”(something they can work on or improve). • 25 points _______/25
Figure 9 Requirement 8 {Grading Your Peers}: DUE: To be completed during presentations March 14th and 15th
• You will be grading your peers based on their presentation AND their display of information in. • In order to receive the points for this part of the project, you will need to complete a rubric for each of your group mem- bers as well as provide verbal feedback.
• You will be able to see the feedback left from your peers as well. • 25 points _______/25
A Social Media PSA created by a group of students using Canva
For access to the rubric, please visit us at:
https://greenteacher.com/empowering-students-through-conservation-pbl/
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