Peters Township High School Students Bring Recycling Lesson to Life

In Señora Deliere’s Spanish 1B class at the high school, students recently completed projects exploring recycling and cleaning up their own neighborhoods.

Chapter 8B of the textbook "Realidades," which is currently used for Peters Township High School, concerns recycling, volunteering, and giving back to the community.

Rather than just have the students study the vocabulary, the class decided to practice the vocabulary. 

Each student was permitted to choose his or her own area of their neighborhood that needed cleaned up.

After gathering abandoned items from the clean-up, the students recycled and cleaned up the area and wrote sentences in Spanish—using the past tense—to tell what they had done.

"Project-based learning, while not a new concept, certainly leads to better retention of material," district officials said. "Certainly these students’ neighborhoods are better for it."

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