Second Grade Students Address Public Issue of Recycling

Second grade students are learning about public issues in Social Studies. They decided to become active and  participate in a recycling project. They decided to collect empty plastic water bottles from Haigh School and recycle them to help the environment. The second graders wrote a friendly letter  to fifth grade students explaining the public issue problem of too much trash in our landfills and asked them to help with this problem by collecting empty water bottles, too. Fifth grade students readily agreed to help with this effort. Recycled boxes were provided to collect the empty water bottles, so they could be picked up and recycled by the second grade students. The second graders were very excited to participate in this public issue project of recycling empty plastic water bottles. The pictures below show the second grade students delivering their friendly letter and the fifth grade students reading and responding to them.

 

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