Week 5

            Our team has had many challenges along the way. We have overcome these challenges. One of these challenges we have faced was how to encourage others to recycle. The way we solved this problem was by making a craft with the third graders. The third graders are bringing in two liter pop bottles to make a pop bottle animal. This way, we are including the third graders in recycling. We are also teaching them a lesson while we are helping them make their project. This was one of the harder challenges we had. We had to find a way to encourage others to recycle not just temporarily, but in the future.

            Another challenge my team has had was encouraging participation. In order to encourage and inform others of our recycling drive we made videos to share with the whole school. These videos were posted on Youtube and the link was emailed to all of the teachers. We made the videos short and informative. This way the information can be easily conveyed and understood. This challenge was easy to overcome, but did take some time. We had to make the videos and edit them. The videos took the participation of the whole team. We all had to work together to overcome that challenge.

            Our next challenge was to collect materials for the third graders project. We had to encourage the third graders to bring in the pop bottles they needed for their project. We needed the participation of teachers and students. We had to make a letter to send home with the students. So far the students have brought in about forty two liter pop bottles. This is a good start to our collection. In order to make the third grade project possible, the bottles will have to be brought in by the students. We have informed the third graders and must make sure that they bring in all the bottles they need for their project.