Reusing Circular economy



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Video 

  1. Discussion after video

The questions that can be used to further discuss on the topic of recycling are the following:

  • What did you learn on this video that you want to share with someone else?
  • Who will you share it with?
  • What is circular economy about?
  • Are you familiar with it?
  • Why is reuse important?
  • How do you feel about reusing?
  • What kind of items in your house/ classroom could be reused?
  • Are you used in reusing items?
  • Is there anything you would like to learn more about this topic?

 

  • Reuse Activities

Teachers can choose 1 among the 2 suggested activities, according to their students’ profiles. 

 

  1. USE YOUR IMAGINATION
  • Target group (age group): all students
  • Materials needed: List or fotos of several reusable items, a whiteboard.

 

List of reusable items:

Plastic bottles

Cans

Old t-shirt

Newspapers

 

Egg cartons

Toilet Roll Inners

Food take-out plastic containers

old toothbrushes

  • Aim -learning goal of the activity: The aim of the activity is to make students think over different uses of several materials that otherwise they would throw away. In that way they could learn that an item can be used several times even for different uses that it was firstly designed.

 

  • Detailed description of the activity: Divide students into small groups of 5-6 persons. Give them the list of reusable items (or the fotos) and invite them to use their imagination and come up with 3-5 ideas on the new uses of those items. Encourage them to be creative and innovative. When all groups have finished, present all ideas for each of the items and invite students to vote for the most imaginative one.

 

We could also have the reusable items in the class and the students could try to build one product of their proposals. Or the students could bring an item or photo of one item they have at home to reuse and search the internet for ideas, or the students can choose an item from their school and propose ideas how they can reuse it i.e.

Before                                                                                            After

  • Questions for reflection:
  • What are your thoughts after completing this activity?
  • What was interesting in this activity?
  • Have you got inspired on how to use your old items?
  • How can you incorporate what you learned from the activity 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 reuse.

Useful resources:

Craft ideas:

  1. MAKE NEW PRODUCTS OUT OF TRASH
  • Target group (age group): all
  • Materials needed: old T-shirts, cans, shoe boxes, plastic bottles, colours, scissors, glue, ribbons, newspapers, etc.
  • Aim -learning goal of the activity: Students are expected to see in practice how they could transform an old useless item into a new useful one.
  • Detailed description of the activity: Divide students into 3-4 groups. Assign to each group a different main “old item” (T-shirt, shoe box, can, plastic bottle) and invite them to be creative and transform it into a new one, as they wish.

If they have difficulties in coming up with new ideas, they can search on youtube videos on how to transform the item they have been assigned with. They could also make a tik- tok video on how they transform the old item and share it in social media.

  • Questions for reflection:
  • What are your thoughts after completing this activity?
  • What did you like most on this activity?
  • Have you got inspired on how to use your old items?
  • How can you incorporate what you learned from the activity in your school, your everyday life, your home?
  • What did you learn that you want to share with someone else? Whom will you share it with?
  • Personal plan: Write down what kind of activities you are going to implement in the next 7 days referring to reuse. Do you think that you are going to face any difficulties in reusing? If yes, what kind and how are you going to address them?