Sophie-4/30/09-Teach-In Reflection

 I did my sustainability workshop with Edith on animal rights. For my visits, I went to this animal shelter called Animal Haven. It is an nonprofit organization that is a no-kill shelter. One thing I discovered that sustainability doesn’t always have to be about parks, trees and global warming. Edith was discussing in our workshop that in the word sustainability there is the word sustain. All we are trying to do, is help sustain our world the way it is and make it better and healthier. We must sustain it and make sure nothing goes down hill. That is all sustainability is about; no matter how small or how big of a thing you are trying to fix, it’s all about sustaining our Earth.   I thought the sustainability workshop was fun. Although, sometimes I felt like my workshop was slightly sloppy and not as thorough and meticulous as it should’ve been. Overall, I got good feedback from the kids and they all enjoyed it. I definitely think they all went away with something about animals. I was in the coordinator committee and it was hard. Next year, the teacher’s should give everyone an extra week than what we had this year because everything was way too last minute. Overall I thought it was a lot of fun and I liked cleaning up at that park. I also thought Liam C.’s and Nile’s videos were really good.