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But new technology still faces a great deal of resistance.

The missing technological element is true one-to-one computing, in which each
student has a device he or she can work on, keep, customize, and take home.

Odyssey K–5: A smart path for each child’s unique journey of learning.

provide additional tools to help teach, guide, and clarify concepts for those
who need it. Our cross-curricular 
learning solutions give students opportunities to use higher-order thinking
skills.

In this first environmental
education activity in the Make a Difference in Your Environment
unit, third grade students will be introduced to an Enviroscape (a model that allows learners to see pollution and
runoff when rain carries soil, chemicals and oil through the watershed to a
water source.)  Students will listen to a book entitled Come
Back, Salmon by Molly Cone which describes the work of an elementary school
that cleaned up a nearby creek and successfully reintroduced salmon to this
creek. Students will then write a response to literature by explaining if they
would participate in an environmental project similar to the one described in
the story.  Note:  If the Enviroscape model is not available, an
alternate activity is include for use as a demonstration.

In this third grade environmental education activity, students will review the
term "pollution" and will discuss how pollution is harmful to the earth. During
the discussion, students will reflect on who and what can contribute to
pollution. After the discussion, students will discuss the importance of
reducing pollution and generate ideas for ways to do so. Finally, from these
ideas, students will choose a service-learning project and complete it over a
desired time period. As an assessment, the students will write a persuasive
writing piece describing how the service learning project has
positively impacted them and why it was important to helping the environment.

In this environmental
education activity, students will name, examine, and define four layers
of soil by comparing them to the layers of a sandwich. Students will then
compare soil textures and will go on an outside dig to determine soil types.
Finally, the students will work on a wall mural and write about what they have
learned.  A rubric is included for teachers to use when grading the
assessment.