Welcome!

 

Hello and welcome to our blog!  We are Mrs. Compton Hall's AVID class at Bethune K-8 school in the San Diego Unified School District.  We will participate in Disney Planet Challenge (DPC) this year, and this blog the start to our journey.  You can learn more about DPC at this link here.

In December 2011, we brainstormed several different project ideas.  After doing a trash pick-up around our classroom, and by thinking about environmental issues in our community, we chose to focus on a local, school-based battery recycling program.

On our first day back to school in 2012, we started a 'jigsaw' where we have different teams each with five experts who will periodically meet together and then report back to the home group.  These jobs are the:

1.    Scientist – who will explore the scientific concept of a battery, and perform any necessary battery testing on our collection;

2.    Historian – who will research the trash/recycling program in San Diego, and give a brief overview of the ecology of trash;

3.    Artist – who will design a battery recycling box for distribution and develop a “Trash to Art” project (i.e. current Children’s Museum display);

4.    Reporter – who will work closely with the historian to write and deliver a news report about trash and feature the team’s recycling program and art project;

5.    Technician – who will document the team’s work on our blog and work on the DPC digital portfolio submission for the class.

We are the class technicians, and we will look forward to daily reporting about the progress we make on our challenge project!

- C. Compton Hall