3B

This term, Grade 3 has been exploring how people, climate and the environment affect each other. Students learned that what people do changes the climate. 

Students started by looking at their own classroom. In groups, they chose resources used every day, like paper, electricity, water and plastic and worked out how they are used now. Then they came up with more efficient ways to use them, such as printing on both sides, turning off lights when leaving a room and reusing things instead of throwing them out.

Students also explained why their ideas help. Using less means less energy is made, fewer new things need to be made and less rubbish ends up in landfill. All of that reduces our carbon footprint.

To share what they found, each group made a poster with explanations and drawings.

Students learned that small choices add up and that even students in Grade 3 can help the planet.