Journal Critique I

Kayla Reed
IDST 4114
Prof. Augustine
7/23/08
“Going Green”

Going Green. (2008). Scholastic Choices; Apr/May2008, Vol. 23 Issue 6, p5-5, 0p.
In this article the author is trying to teach children the best way to help save our resources and enhance our environment by doing things to help better our environment and to stop destroying it like we most commonly do. In one part of the article the author gives its readers 100 different ways in which they could help to conserve the environment in which we live in either at home, work, school, and even their selves. Some examples of this include things such as getting a hybrid car, turning off the water when brushing their teeth, carpool for a whole week or as long as you possibly can, always carry a reusable water bottle, recycle glass, paper, plastic and metal for a whole week, or ask your school to have a waste-free lunch day! All of these examples are great ways to help better conserve and make our environment a healthier living place. In another part of the article the author also points out how at school, teachers should have plastic bins in their classrooms where children could recycle any paper; they might have, instead of just wasting the materials. So in this article the children were being studied by their teachers and parents to see how well they could do things for a whole week. My reaction to this article is that I think it is a great way for kids to get involved and actually do something great for the environment. Children love getting involved and thinking that they are doing something good for others, so what better way for them to do that than by recycling as much things as they can? I think this is a great way for children to also get involved in interdisciplinary work because they are getting involved in so many different things. They are not only concentrating on doing things such as recycling, but they will also even try to get their parents involved and encourage them to do more things such as carpooling, recycling plastics, metal glass, and paper, to not let the water run when brushing their teeth or washing their face, and to always use reusable water bottles every day. If they encourage the rest of their family members to just do those few things, they can really help out our environment. I think this article is very useful to my project because it helps give ways in which people (especially young children who will hopefully continue to do these things as they grow up) can help our environment by “Going Green.” It lists so many, simple easy steps that we can all take that will help lead our environment in a healthier direction. The only thing that the article does not talk about is how much recycling just one thing will help our environment. I think that is very important for people to know, so they will feel even better about doing the things that they should be doing (like recycling) to help better our environment.