Let’s Recycle

Written and adapted by Sabine Laurent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqCIQ5sf_3Y

Grade 3-4

(ELA)

Target audience:

aluminum glass paper plastic

GoalGiving various materials, students will be able to identify recyclable materials . Students will utilize their knowledge to set up a recycling area in the classroom

Objective1..Students will know where garbage goes after it's thrown away.

•2Students will be able to set up a recycle are in the classroom.

recycling bin

3: Students will understand how much waste

we produce each day.

4:Students will identify recycle material from the giving list when to reduce, reuse, or recycle.

5Students will be able to

understand the steps that

involved doing recycling.

Time frame:

Activity 1: Reduce (15 min)

Activity 2: Reuse (15 min)

Activity 3: Recycle (15 min)

Teaching objective 1:I will review the definitions of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle and write them on the Bulletin Board . I will divide the students into three groups. Ask each group to make a poster of their own items. These posters can be displayed near the garbage areas in the school lunchroom or in the main hallway.

Materials used:Glue stick, news paper, bulletin board, markers ,pencil, clear poster paper, DVD, books, plastic tape and recycling binhttp://www.brainpopjr.com/science/conservation/reducereuserecycle/

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Exit assessment:

Students will be able to answer this question.Compare an item of disposable trash from the reduce pile with something from the reuse pile ? One example might be a paper napkin from the reuse pile, and a cloth napkin from the reuse pile. What are the differences?

Prerequisite skills: Students are require to know all the steps that concerned recycling, (such as what can be recycle, like newspapers, metal cans, milk and juice cartons, etc……)

Goal

Sabine LaurentGiving various materials, students will be able to identify recyclable materials . Students will utilize their knowledge to

set up a recycling area in the classroom.

Objective:

1Students will identify recycle material from the giving list when

to reduce, reuse, or recycle

1.1Identify ReduceReuserecycle

2.Students will know

where garbage goes

after it's thrown away.

2.1Define words

they May not know, like leach ate, landfill, and

other terms.

3.Students will

understand how much waste we

produce each day.

3.1UnderstandHow much a lot of waste

reallyIs.

4.Students will be able to set up a

recycle area in the

classroom.

4.1Clean up the room. place

the items in a pile at the front of the

room

5.Students will be able to learn the steps that involved in recycling.

5.1Recycling an aluminum can is to buy a can

of soda.

1.2One way to cut

down the amount

of waste.

2.2Knowing all garbage go to fresh kills

landfill in Staten Island

3.2Compare

the weighs.

4.2Explaining

that recyclables are sorted into two

basic categories.

5.2Review

each step along the

way.

1.3Understand which items can be reused

3.3 timeline

to Discuss the

time it takes for certain items to

decompose

3.3Record

the students estimates

.

4.3Review

which items go in the

green bins, and which go in the blue bins.

5.3Involve the students in

a discussion about the steps in

recycling.

The End

Written and adapted by Sabine Laurent