Archive for the ‘Connections to curriculum’ Category

“Corre por el Peru” – 6k. Run!

There’s an international 6K run to raise awareness for water conservation on Sunday, April 18.  Please click on the website below to learn more.  The 6K is significant because that’s the average distance people have to walk for potable water in many countries.
http://www.correporelaguaperu.org/

March 15, 2010   Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Events  No Comments

A cool update: Around the americas expedition!

Thus far the 11th grade environmental systems, entire 7th grade and 5th grade classes at FDR are taking part in science education programs offered by the aroundtheamericas expedition team
http://www.aroundtheamericas.org/default.php
“Around the Americas is a 25,000 mile sailing circumnavigation of the American continents with the mission of inspiring, educating, and engaging citizens of the Americas to protect [...]

March 4, 2010   Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Events, Websites  No Comments

FOX Green it Mean it Campaign

FOX Broadcasting Company launches a campaign in favor of our planet. A series of small videos with “easy small steps that will help deliver a better planet to the next generation”.
Watch your favorite FOX actors (Fringe, Glee, House, Lie to me and others) deliver very easy tips to help our environment. http://www.fox.com/earthday/
We can all “Think [...]

February 28, 2010   Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Websites  No Comments

Thinking and Acting Green

As we break for holiday and destinations around the globe we would like to encourage all FDR families, staff and students to continue Thinking and Acting Green….and being caught at it. Along the lines of last years successful Roosevelt Reads photography challenge, this year FDR students are encouraged to photograph themselves Thinking or Acting Green [...]

December 21, 2009   Posted in: Connections to curriculum  No Comments

The 3 R’s

Watch this fun video and get inspired REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKdZYYmTT9A

December 2, 2009   Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle  No Comments

Raise Your Voice and be part of COP15

Who’s looking out for Peru at the December Climate Change conference in Copenhagen?
Think Green Act Green.
Find your voice and use it!
http://www.youtube.com/cop15
Ms. Rumble.
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Submit your video now and contribute to a meaningful discussion about our world’s future.
Suggestions to increase your chances of making the cut:
Be Thoughtful: Climate change is a serious topic and we want serious debate.
Be [...]

November 14, 2009   Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle  One Comment

Video and Tip!

Here is this interesting video that I would love to share with the Think Green team:
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
Also, when I go to WONG I always re-use my bags, both the plastic ones and the transparent ones that are for fruit  keeping them at home and taking them back to Wong. Just a suggestion to think Green Act [...]

November 14, 2009   Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle  No Comments

Organic Cotton

Follow these links to learn more about ORGANIC COTTON
Organic Cotton Facts
©Organic Trade Association, Updated February 2009
Of all organic fibers, organic cotton is one of the most popular. Here are some facts about the growing organic cotton industry.
Organic Cotton: For Clothing, Baby, Bedding and More
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA
This is now the [...]

November 6, 2009   Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Events, Our Carbon Footprint  No Comments

Healthy Oceans: I Fish

A call for action. Learn what this group proposes for the protection of their ocean.
Watch the I Fish video and learn how important and fragile life is in the oceans and how it is connected to us humans.
Healthy oceans: I Fish Video

November 1, 2009   Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Websites  No Comments

Eco Awareness Comics

Comics Art Show about the effects humans have in the environment, our 7th grade students had the opportunity to visit it while it was on display in the main plaza of Barranco.
Muestra de Humor Gráfico que estuvo en exposición en diversas áreas publicas de Lima.  Nuestros alumnos de séptimo la fueron a ver en la [...]

October 24, 2009   Posted in: Connections to curriculum, Our Carbon Footprint  No Comments