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Fifth-graders learn how to save the planet
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A fifth-grade student in Amanda Zion’s science class at CVMS made her choice of which bag her recyclable item was to be in during a relay race set up by Peg Flynn of the Green Team..
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Peg Flynn of the Green Team visited Canfield Village Middle School fifth-grade students in Amanda Zion’s science class to educate the students about what they can do to help the planet and what they can save by recycling.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.A fifth-grade student at CVMS in Amanda Zion’s science class weighed his options carefully before choosing in which bag his recyclable item belonged..
By ABBY SLANKER
Canfield Village Middle School fifth-grade students in Amanda Zion’s science classes received a special visit from Peg Flynn of the Green Team Jan. 24.
Zion’s classes are studying Earth Science, learning about renewable and nonrenewable resources, how to conserve them and how to utilize them for energy.
Flynn was invited to the classroom to educate the students on what they can do to help the planet and what they can save by recycling. She encouraged the students to recycle at home and get their parents involved.
“Getting started is as simple as calling the Green Team to request a home recycling bin,” Flynn said.
After reviewing renewable and nonrenewable resources with the students, Flynn split the students into two teams for a recycling relay race.
Flynn brought with her two recycling bins full of recyclable items made from natural resources, such as plastic bottles, cardboard, glass bottles, milk jugs and aluminum cans. She lined up five paper bags for each team with the labels trees and wood, bauxite, iron ore, oil and silica sand, soda ash and limestone.
The students were then instructed to pick an item out of the bin and put it in the bag that best represented where the item came from. For example, the cardboard in the bin was to be put in the trees and wood bag, the aluminum cans were to be put in the bauxite bag and the plastic bottles were to be placed in the oil bag.
“If you recycle one item, make it the aluminum can. It’s my favorite recyclable item. Each can contains 55 percent recycled aluminum. By recycling this can, you are saving the rain forests of South America. Yep, little you, in Canfield, Ohio, are saving nonrenewable resources by recycling your aluminum cans,” Flynn said.
Flynn gave one point for each recyclable that was in the correct bag, with the tally for the two teams being very close, proving the students know their ‘green’ stuff.
As a souvenir of her visit, and as a reminder to recycle, Flynn gave each student a Green Team pen made out of recycled rubber tires.