- Video
- Discussion after video
The questions that can be used in order to further discuss on the topic of recycling are as follows:
- What did you learn on this video that you want to share with someone else?
- Who will you share it with?
- What is recycling about?
- Are you familiar with it?
- Why is it important?
- How do you feel about recycling?
- What kind of items in your house/ classroom could be recycled?
- Are you used in recycling items?
- Is there anything you would like to learn more about this topic?
Recycling activities
Teachers must choose 1 activity to implement in the classroom with their students.
- PUT IT IN THE RIGHT BIN
- Target group (age group): all students
- Materials needed: fotos of several recyclable and non-recyclable items, such as plastic bottles, bottles of shampoo, glass bottles, batteries, newspaper, food cans, soda cans, food waste, eggshells, broken glass bottles, magazines, cardboard, pc, mobile phones, dirty pizza packages, diapers, lamps, straws e.t.c. 7 boxes.
- Aim -learning goal of the activity: Students are expected to learn and further practice recycling sorting, being able to recognize which items can be recycled and which should be in the waste bin.
- Detailed description of the activity: In each of the 7 boxes we put a label: a. plastic, b. metal, c. paper, d. glass, e. organic/food waste, e. electronic devices, f.batteries, g. Trash. After having watched the video, we discuss with students on the items that can be recycled and the ones that cannot be and the categorization of them. Then we show students the fotos with the recycled and non-recycled items and we invite them to put each of them in the right box. When the process is finished, we discuss if they have recognized the recyclable and the non-recyclable items.
- Additional ideas – alternatives: We can also choose to make the activity a little more competitive, dividing students in teams and giving them earning point for each right answer, or we could use time competition with groups for speed and accuracy, or 4 teams of students that compete and a 5th group of students who check the sorting.
- Questions for reflection:
- What did you learn on this activity?
- Was it easy to recognize which items can be recycled and which are not?
- Share with your classmates some other items that cannot be recycled.
- Personal plan: Write down what kind of activities you are going to implement in the next 7 days referring to recycling.
- RECYCLING BROCHURE CREATION
- Target group (age group): all
- Materials needed: fotos of recycled materials, internet to search for fotos of recyclable materials, pc to work on the design of the brochure and a design application, such as canvas
- Aim -learning goal of the activity: Students are expected to further practice on recycling by separating the items into the 7 categories and further making their families and other classmates familiar with the recycling process.
- Detailed description of the activity: Invite students to create a brochure to share with their friends, families, other students in school that will depict the rules of recycling, including the different categories of recycling materials and the items that cannot be recycled. The students can be divided in 3 groups. One group will be responsible for collecting fotos of the items that will be included in the brochure, one will write the texts and the 3rd will create the final brochure in the designing application. For each of the groups you could give names according to their roles, such as photographers, copy editors (for text creation) and layout managers. Before starting the activities, they will agree on the content and the structure of the brochure. When the brochure will be ready, they can share it electronically with their friends, families, social media, etc. or they can make 1-2 copies of it and pin them in their classroom or in the entrance of their school.
- Additional ideas – alternatives: Instead of a brochure, the students could create a tik- tok video.
- Questions for reflection:
- What did you like most on this activity?
- How can you incorporate what you learned in your school, your everyday life, your home?
- Personal plan: Write down what kind of activities you are going to implement in the next 7 days referring to recycling.
