Inspiration on a Budget

If reading a book chapter is meant to excite you enough to get straight onto Amazon and buy the whole book, then this book chapter has served its purpose! Every now and then, one comes ac... See More

If reading a book chapter is meant to excite you enough to get straight onto Amazon and buy the whole book, then this book chapter has served its purpose! Every now and then, one comes across a teaching resource that just seems to resonate with one’s own teaching philosophy. For me, this is one of those resources. This book chapter included the contents of the book (the reason I went straight to Amazon to purchase a “used” copy of the book), the preface, which outlined some of the reasons and approaches to frugality, and a complete chapter from the book titled “ Materials Repurposed: Find a wealth of Free Resources at Your Local Recycling Center”. Environmental science educators would naturally be concerned with unsustainable resource use. This book provides practical and standards based ideas using recycled and repurposed materials. The book also contains articles and springboards for ideas to save science budget money, including where to obtain materials cheaply, for use in the classroom. Now I’m counting down the days until the book arrives so that I can unleash my newfound ideas on my class!