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Recycling **Team Members**
 * Ligia Bernal
 * Miguel Vancini
 * Liliana Quintero

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**Overview**- After observing students in our community, we have noticed that many students are very wasteful without being aware of it. We have seen many students using a new sheet of paper to either create paper airplanes or paper fans and after five minutes that paper is in the trash can. We have seen students not take care of their school and litter because the trash can was anywhere in their sight. We have seen students throw soda cans away in the regular trash can instead of the recycling bin. So the purpose of our project is to make the students aware that their actions due have consequence and although it might seem something so insignificant, little by little we are destroying our Earth. We want to make students aware of the environmental issues that we are facing today. We want to encourage the students to recycle and become more aware of how to take care of the Earth. After the lessons have been implemented, we would encourage the students to partake in a friendly competition.

Before starting any of the lessons or activities, the students will be given a survey to see how much they know about recycling. Survey

**Intervention**- By putting together a friendly competition within the classrooms, the students will be encouraged and motivated to recycle. The objective of this activity is to have each classroom to gather the most recyclables that they can within a week. At the end of the week, the recyclables will then be taken to a recycling center in exchange for money. The friendly competition is to see what classroom can raise the most money by recycling. At the end of the desired time, the classrooms can use the money to have a pizza party. This sort of activity can encourage students to recycle due to the fact that they will end up getting rewarded yet through the process it will end up becoming a great learning experience.

**Research and Background**
 * 1) What are some ways to reduce waste?
 * 2) Recycling Paper
 * 3) Recycling Aluminum
 * 4) Recycling Plastic
 * 5) Recycling Other Metals
 * 6) Recycling Glass
 * 7) Recycling E-Scrap
 * 8) Recycling Printing Cartridges
 * 9) Preventing Litter
 * 10) Seven Household Hazardous Products
 * 11) Florescent Bulb disposal
 * 12) Videos
 * 13) Parent Letter

1. Litter Detectives 2. Classroom Paper Recycling 3. What is Biodegradable? 4. Closing the Loop 5. Hazardous Waste 6. Composting 101 PowerPoint 7. Worms at Work
 * Lessons **


 * Evaluate the level of success ** - One of the ways that success will be measured will be due to the pretest that will be given before the lesson and the activity and the posttest which will be given after the activty has been completed. By comparing the answers of the pretest and posttest, it will give us an opportunity to see what they learned and to see if they have changed to a greener life style.

Challenges and Limitations- Some of the challenges that we can be faced with is having administrators not in favor of such activity. Another challenge is making sure the parents are setting a good example for their children.