Name
What's in common to all those things?
Topic
Reduce reuse recycle - environment
Learning time
Designed time
4 hours and 15 minutes
Size of class
24 age 5 - 6
Description
What's in common to all those things? - finding out the different types of items to recycle -creating a space in the classroom for different types of recyclable items - recycle paper in the classroom
Aims
- to make students collaborate - to make them find their own ideas why should some materials belong to specific groups - to make students start to think about waste we create daily
Outcomes
Find out/discover, Describe reasons for, Argue
Editor
marijanadvorski
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Recycling?
80 minutes)
  • Discuss
    15
    24
    0
    I will bring different types of raw materials - used papers, cardboards, glass, plastic, electronic waste, textille, bricks, pieces of concrete. I would spread them around the class. I would ask my students to identify and explain all visible materials. I would ask them: What do we do with those materials in eveyday life? How long can we use different materials? What we do with them when we don't need them anymore? What all those raw materials have in common?
  • Investigate
    45
    24
    0
    Together with the parents children will take photos of different spots where they can sort waste materials. In the class - we'll make all together an e- book about recyclying spots in our town using digital photos children made with their parents and implementing them into StoyJumper.
  • Produce
    0
    Every team need to create spot in our classroom for different types of materials. They will have to prepare boxes or similar, visible mark them and let outher children know what to put there (using drawings or posters or just verbally - short presentation)
  • Discuss
    0
    I'll bring different types of food in their original package. We'll discuss how could we reduce production of paper, syntetic materials etc. Children have to draw how could we carry out the food from the stores - they should suggest their own ideas and verbally share with others.
  • Discuss
    20
    24
    0
    Game: Think of as many different uses for a plastic bottle, paper bag, glass. Brainstorming. Making a poster and placing it into a visible place in the classroom.
Notes:
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Animated film - how to recycle.
40 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    5
    24
    1
    Students will watch animated film from youtube about recycyling. After watching, we'll discuss what we saw. Children will give their opinion about it.
  • Collaborate
    15
    24
    0
    Creating teams: Picture Puzzles: I''ll cut pictures from a magazine (half as many pictures as members of the group). I'll cut each picture in half and mix them up in a hat. Each child takes one piece and partners are those whose pieces form a complete picture. I'll laminate pictures of nature and cut into 4 or more odd shaped pieces. The students with the matching pieces must find each other. I have the kids come up with their own team name based on the puzzle.
  • Produce
    10
    24
    0
    Children have to draw with different materials their own solution for sorting waste materials.
  • Read Watch Listen
    10
    24
    0
    Reading the storybook "Birthday without garbage" - Markota, B. Discussing the problems from this storybook.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Sorting materials
135 minutes)
  • Collaborate
    15
    24
    0
    I will devide my students into groups and ask them to sort different types of materials - they have to discuss what type of materials go together. Children in one group have to single out only one type of material. During that activity children have to compare and discuss and then check with the teacher - if they need to do so.
  • Investigate
    15
    24
    0
    Degradation of natural and synthetic materials What we need: 3 glasses of water, paper bag, syntetic bag, potato shells. Every team need to put one of those materials (paper bag, syntetic bag, potato shells) into the glass filled with water. They have to make a poster and write down their opservations . They take photos every day and store them on the computers. Long term activity.
  • Produce
    20
    24
    0
    Stage doll is available for this activity. Children have to make a stage doll from raw materials and create "public demonstration" to other children against pollution procedures and uncontrolled waisting raw materials.
  • Practice
    5
    25
    0
    Game: Labirynth: Student have to find a right path to leave the garbage in an appropriate container.
  • Investigate
    60
    24
    0
    Möbius strip / Möbius loop - students investigate with the teacher and parents Möbius strip - discussing about the meaning of this sign, searching for it on waste materials brought into the classroom. Making the Möbius strip sigh for recycling place in the classroom.
  • Collaborate
    20
    24
    0
    Collaborative posters: Students work in groups to make posters and each student in a group uses a different color marker. Teachers can see how each student contributed - the theme of the posters is What is garbage?
Notes:
Resources linked: 0

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