Brave Kids- Your Choices Can Save the Earth!
By Dave Street
Calling all kids. Are you brave enough to help Save the Earth!
Your choices really count!
You are the new leaders of this world!
The little choices you make every day make a BIG difference in the world.
Your choices are going to lead this world where it goes in the future.
You can lead it to be a clean and healthy world where you have cle an air to breathe and clean water to drink!
Some of the best choices you can make every day to help save the environment and keep the earth clean and healthy are:
-Reusing
-Recycling
-Reducing
-Conserving
-Not littering
-Being Clean
-Using less
We will explore these choices more throughout the year.
Today we are going to start with idea of Reusing.
Reusing generally means we use something over again in a new way without changing it too much.
For example, in my refrigerator I have a glass bottle that has water in it. It used to have juice in it. After I finished the juice, I cleaned the bottle. Then I put water in it.
The bottle is being reused as=2 0a water bottle. But I haven't changed it- it is still a bottle.
A popular way of reusing items for kids is in art products. I have seen art projects where kids have used bottle caps, ice cream pop sticks and other objects to make art sculptures.
They used these objects in a new way. The bottle caps haven't been changed into something else; they are still bottle caps. But now they are being reused to make art projects.
Plastic bottles are often reused in science projects, sometimes to grow seeds. The bottle hasn't been changed into something else; it is being used in a new way. It is being reused.
In the next blog, I'll explain what recycling is and how it differs from reusing.
But now- here's a challenge for all of you Brave kids. Can you think of a way to reuse something in your house?
Send us your ideas and stories- and photos. (But make sure your parents approve.) If we use your ideas and photos, you'll receive a special environmental prize- an autographed copy of the kids' book "How the Land of Littre Became the Kingdom of Clean"- about dragons that recycle and knights that pollute in an endangered kingdom until they work together as a team to keep the kingdom clean!
Good luck. Today, we are going to explain the difference between Recycle and Reuse.
Thank you for beinga Brave Kid!
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