Thursday, April 23, 2009

Cotton: From Green to Blue

Cotton: From Green to Blue

This is a short video clip on how cotton is a renewable resource. Watch the4 video clip and see how we can recycle goods to help conserve our natural resources.

Click the link below to view the video clip
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/kids/green-kids/cotton-making-jeans-kids.html


Answer the questions below.

How is cotton made?
Why is cotton a good choice for making things?
What do they do to recycle jeans?

4 comments:

  1. cottin is piked from the cotten tree.Because it ceeps the ivierment cleen and can be recycled.Jeans are gathed,cut into small pieces and put throgh a compacting mishean and then cut into strips used to insulete houses.

    By Dylan

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  2. Cotton becomes denim. It grows from a tree. It also grows from the grown. Bales of cotton are then made into yard. All of the denim is collected then baled. Its cool to learn about cotton.

    By Zach,

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  3. Cotton is made from plants. Cotton is good for making things because you can recycle. The people make the cotton into denim and make jeans.
    By Rochelle and Ginny

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  4. Cotton is made from plants And trees. Cotton is a good thing for the Earth because you can recycle it and use it again. Workers make cotton into denim and thats how they make jeans.

    By: Sarah l.

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