Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

In this lesson, students will use the song "The 3 R's" by Jack Johnson to develop ideas about how to "green" up their own classrooms; they will learn two songs (written to the tune of old classics) that will inspire them to brainstorm ideas for reducing, reusing, and recycling in school. Then, inspired by Bill Martin Jr.'s Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, students will create a classroom "Green Guide Book," listing ideas that the teacher and the students are willing to adopt and use as part of the classroom greening. Older students can then create original songs about "greening up" their schools, inspired by tunes of familiar songs.