About Cassell Elementary School

We plan on creating a school-wide curriculum based around the importance of recycling. This curriculum will be taught through the fine arts in order to create enthusiasm and respect for ourselves and our planet. This curriculum will include field trips as well as hands on projects and performances. The school will also form a recycling club which will be in charge of the collection of recycled goods.

This will also tie into our school’s discipline code of being “respectful, responsible, and safe”, because students are being respectful and responsible for our planet.

Timeline of Project:
March
- The drama, music, and art teachers will introduce the recycling unit in their classes. In art class, each grade will learn about how recycled materials are used in art works today. They will also each create a piece of art work from recycled material

-In drama, each grade will learn about the importance of recycling. Students will research different ways people can recycle and conserve our environment. They will also research the adverse effects of not recycling. Using their research, each grade will put together a dramatic informative presentation about the importance of recycling; and the possible effects on our selves and the community, if we do not recycle. Each grade will perform their presentations for the entire school to create enthusiasm for the recycling campaign.

-In music class students will create instruments with found objects. The students will perform using these instruments during the end of the year fine arts celebration.

-Also during this time a recycling committee will form which is made up of 7th and 8th grade students. They will meet after school once a week to collect recycled goods and research ways in which students can recycle. The students will put a recycling receptacle in each classroom for students to recycle.

April and May
-The end of the year fine arts celebration which is called “Cassellebration” will be centered on the theme of recycling and conservation. This includes an end of the year all-school performance, artists and performances brought to the school, art projects, and field trips. The entire school will go on a field trip to the Peggy Notebaret museum’s