STORY OF BOTTLED WATER

The author of the Story of Stuff, having had about 10 million viewers,made another amazing video.
http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/

2. DILEMMA

1. MORNING RUSH

Open this comic strip and discuss the pictures. It is possible to exploit this visual material for the lowest levels as well as the highest ones. For those with better speaking skills, you can discuss what in Jo's morning is an environmentally friendly/unfriendly behaviour. For more on plastic bottles, look under the tag "Plastics" for more material. The comic strip number 2 is a followup to this one.

PLASTIC BY THE NUMBERS

A very comprehensive article on the Greenopolis website, about recyclability of different plastic designations:

http://www.greenopolis.com/goblog/joe-laur/plastic-numbers-what-choose-what-lose

SPRING WORDS

These word clouds with spring vocabulary will be handy and fun for your literacy students. You can create your own on wordle.net.
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The Story Of Stuff

Please visit this link to see the compelling animation by Annie Leonard:

If you get a message that the link can't be opened, copy it and paste it in your browser and click enter.
Look for an extensive list of teaching handouts for higher levels related to this video, including the transcript:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B-rWSJk57KV7NmRmZTBjZTYtMGRjOS00YTQ3LThmYWItMDAwMDA2OWEzNzBi&hl=en

Courtesy of Anne Cairns

Earth Day

I designed this easy reading to celebrate Earth Day with my Literacy students.