Alabama

Doing the Right Thing By Going Green = = == = = What’s That Stink? = = By: Molly, Taylor, Justin, and Bryce It’s a Saturday morning and you go to clean out your shed. You find some old paints, Clorox, detergents, and other supplies. Go ahead and throw it out onto your lawn. It won’t hurt you. It will just wash away with the rain, right? According to the data, what you do on your land affects the water, even when it’s not even near you. Everyone has fertilizers, Clorox, soaps, and detergent. What they don’t know is that when they pour it out onto their lawns, it goes into the water system that runs underground. Then it gets into creeks, lakes, streams, and eventually the oceans, killing the habitats and plant life all along the way. Next time, think before pouring those chemical’s onto your lawn. It impacts more than just you.

// (The above photograph is our mascot for the third edition,. She's named Rosacycle. Mrs. Roden's 2nd grade class created her with a little help from three of the fifth graders). //

PSAs We each have created a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on something we find of most personal importance. We hope you enjoy these. Be sure to turn up the volume on your computer.
 * [|Save Us] || [|Get Active!] ||
 * [|Save Nature] || [|Get Up] ||
 * [|Drink It] || [|Keep It Clean to Keep It Green] ||
 * [|Go Green] || [|Save Us] ||
 * [|Clean the Air: Take Better Care] || [|A Ride of Green] ||
 * [|Their Lives Depend on Us] || [|Donate It] ||
 * [|Helping Hands] || [|Helping Haiti] ||
 * [|Pollution Free: Way to Be] || [|Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle] ||
 * [|Serving Animals] || [|Our Lives Depend on It] ||

Do You Want to Super-Size that? By: Brooke, Jesus, Roosevelt, and Felicia The substitution of fast food for regular food is becoming an outrage! 78,000,000,000 lbs. of fast food is indulged from one April Fool’s Day to the next. Recently, this wasn’t an immense issue that the U.S has accommodated. Now it has became a vast dilemma around the country. In 2003, Morgan Spurlock, in the movie, //Super Size Me// did an experiment to prove that fast food is severely unhealthy for us. His experiment, was to eat only fast food for 30 days. Morgan's results were that his heart rate decreased and he gained 24 pounds! As you can see fast food is dangerously unhealthy, and it will only continue unless we make a change. So next time you go through Drive-Thru and they say, "Do you want to super-size that?" You might better give it a second-thought.



This is our recycled art that is made out of old license plates. We each painted a picture on a license plate.
​You can see all of our art in our Digital Art Gallery here: [|Recycled Art]

Dooms Day

The grim reaper makes regular visits around the world. He arrives to take the souls of plant life, rivers, streams, and stonework. They are dying, polluted, and eroded. The grim reaper gets all of his power by sucking up all the smoke and air pollution. Then he pours it down on the earth killing plant life, eroding stonework, and polluting rivers. The grim reaper will take the plant’s lives, rivers, and the stonework’s soul. We can stop the grim reaper right in his deadly tracks. To stop him we can ride a bike, bus, or walk. Lets stop his reign of terror now !

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Do you like to "virtually go green?" We created our maze on playcrafter.com, an online resource with web 2.0 tools where you can create and share your own video game(s). Go on an adventure and collect the trash left behind from humans who are careless about littering. This debris includes paper, bricks, glass, candy wrappers, and cookies. Toxic barrels are also left behind, but you can’t collect this destructive piece of trash because you will be killed by the toxic chemicals. Occasionally, you may have to “tele-port” to different areas on each level. We hope you enjoy “going green virtually!” Play here: [|Go Green Maze]

"Love the Earth" Poetry We created a Voice Thread with our environment poetry. We hope you enjoy reading what we've created. You can visit it here: [|Environment Poetry]

Our Digital Storybook Two of our sixth graders created a digital storybook on storyjumper.com which is a free online digital story creator. The story is entitled //Green Day//. Visit our digital storybook here:[|Green Day]

Can you solve //The Puzzle of the Polluted Creek//? Directions: To solve this mystery, you have to… 1- Read the whole mystery, except for the solution. 2- Look for clues by finding mistakes or lies in the suspects’ stories. 3- While reading each suspect, investigate their stories by using a search engine like Google. 4- Gather all your clues together to solve the puzzle of the Polluted Creek. 5- Then click on solution to see if you were successfully solved the Puzzle of the Polluted Creek. 6- Good luck and happy sleuthing! To begin the mystery “The Puzzle of the Polluted Creek,” click here: [|Puzzle of the Polluted Creek]

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By: Brooke and Elizabeth

Save My Life
By: Austin, Paris, and Greg Tweet, tweet! Please help! Our homes are being destroyed every year; enough to fill up 50 football fields. There are lots of animals in the rain forest like butterflies, worms (yummy!), frogs, snakes, lizards, birds, sloths, and jaguars (yikes!). Two hundred years ago the rainforest covered eight million square miles of the earth’s surface. If you destroy our homes, you won’t have any coffee, bananas, citrus fruits, chocolate, and shampoo. Do both of us a favor, and save my home.