I am interviewing my 6 year old son Tucker on the environment.
What is paper made from?Thread
Why do we need to save water?
So we can drink it. So the fish won't die because if they don't have water then they can't breath and they'll die.
Why do we TRY to be vegetarian?1. Because people are eating too much animals with meat and then we won't have any animals like chickens and pig liver and fish or shark.
2. My mother had a mom that ate meat and she got the liver out of the pig and she cut the head off of the pig and she put the head in my mom's room.
What do we recycle?1. Cans
2. Bottles
3. Wine glasses
4. Milk cartons
5. Egg cartons
6. Soda bottles
7. Boxes
8. Paper
Why do we recycle these things?
So they don't have to go in the landfills.
If they don't go in the landfills, where do they go?You use them over again. They make them into the things that they were except new. Like a soda bottle made into another soda bottle.
Why do we ask you to turn off the lights?Or else we will spend too much electricity and my mom and dad will have to pay their bills more.
What is electricity made from?No idea.
What if I told you electricity was created by burning coal or oil or gas? Why then should we save electricity?Because we wouldn't waste lots of coal and oil and gas.
What is gas made from?
It's made from fossils.
What happens when we run out of fossils?We don't have any more gas. But there is not that many fossils left because the dinosaurs are almost gone. Wait, all of them are gone.
Name some things we do that are good for the environment.1. Pick up trash.
2. Save electricity.
3. If you are close to your school, don't drive there or else you will waste fossils. So just walk there.
4. We don't eat meat (most of the time).
The environment is the water, land, trees and air. (This was a reminder...) There is styrofoam on the ground and that kills the ozone layer.
3 Comments:
That is so cool! Tucker knows his stuff!!
By marcia, at 1:57 AM
Hi Wendy, your interview idea with a kid is a nice way to teach environment and recycling basics. You are right about about being solution specific. I am trying to be do the same with limited success at my environment blog, Greendiary (www.greendiary.com). I will put your blog in my blogroll.
By irani, at 3:20 AM
Hey Wendy, I like your interviews with the kids. I just think you should talk to older students about the ecological footprint and how that effects the world. And see there prespective on the enviornment.
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