Links to Spring 2010 Puppet Show

Thanks to Joel "Brandyn" Van Sant, A complete clips of 2010 Spring T&L 390 Players puppet shows can be seen in the following link:
Puppet Show Clips

Recyle Observation

Another assignment is to be an undercover spy: secretly note & document waste in one class. Students need to write up ways to reduce and reuse some of the materials. Estimate the cost of unnecessary wastes and how much the teacher, the school, or tax payers could have saved if certain changed have been made.

The following is Jordan's finding: 
Location: A class at WSUTC 

For my recyclable material documentation, I observed how much recyclable material is used during my X class. This is a class that utilizes a lot of paper. On one day, each of the 35-40 students was given 2 sheets of paper – one with print and one without. That is about 80 pieces of paper! To make things worse, this class period was actually relatively little paper use compared to other days. As I looked around the classroom, I saw printed paper and posters on the walls. One grouping of paper was about 40 printed sheets – one from each student – that we had put up on the wall as a previous assignment. School posters for notices and clubs were also displayed in the classroom. These were not for the class, itself, but were certainly put up and funded by the school.


Ways that we could reduce the amount of waste would be to use both sides of the paper handouts. We could simply use less paper in general. Our papers on the wall could have been eliminated as well. We could have used half-sheets of paper, or written on the board instead. Classroom posters could be replaced by something electronic or words written on the board.

Based on my estimates and observations charted below, I would estimate that the teacher/school/taxpayers would save $18.50 in this one class alone if it was paperless. Is this a possible goal? Can a class be paperless? I am not sure. Paper waste, however, needs to be reduced.

Recycle First-Self Observation

This is an assignment for us to rethink the way we handle our resources. It is a journey of slef-discovery.  It is simple, actualy.  Every student is required to document a five-day-long recount on your own household recyclable wastes.  In addition to make a chart and a graph, each student provides a list of possible ways to reuse these items.  And further estimate how much money you could have saved if you change certain living habit.

Pam's 5-day result:
Thursday- 1 cardboard tissue box, I cereal box, salad scraps and peelings, 6 napkins, multiple tissues (used), Jell-O box, 2 glass bottles, banana peels, grapefruit rinds, 1 plastic milk jug, 6 envelopes, 2 cans


Friday- 6 napkins, 2 banana peels, 2 orange rinds, 2 grapefruit rinds, salad scraps, multiple tissues, 2 water bottles, 3 plastic shopping bags, 1 newspaper, 6 glass bottles, 4 envelopes, 4 cans

Saturday- 1 plastic syrup bottle, salad scraps, plastic wrappings, 6 tin cans, multiple tissues, 1 toilet paper roll, 1 paper towel roll, gift wrap roll, 1 newspaper, 2 glass bottles, 4 envelopes

Sunday- 1 cereal box, 1 tissue box, 1 rice box, multiple tissues, 1 egg carton, 1 plastic milk jug, 1 juice carton, styrofoam, 2 glass bottles, 1 glass jar, 1 newspaper, 1 church program, 2 cans

Monday- 1 cardboard oatmeal container, 1 plastic butter tub, 2 styrofoam trays, 3 tin cans, 2 plastic bottles, 4 glass bottles, 4 envelopes, 6 cans

Tuesday- 1 cereal box, 1 tissue box, 3 envelopes, several paper flyers, salad scraps and peelings, banana peels, 1 milk jug, 4 tin cans,

We do not see these things until we make effort to force ourself to "pay attention" to something seems so trivial.