What's Rubbish?
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Lesson plan: Develop a concept map about rubbish Talk about 'rubbish' with the students. As they discuss notions and understandings, list comments and ideas and organise them into a concept map. Highlight any questions/issues for future discussion. Share the Munch Kids' thoughts with the students. Watch the first half of the Munch Kids segment (until story about toy rabbit begins). The first part deals with the definition of rubbish and recycling. Share learning with the community Make a poster to encourage creative recycling. List all sorts of things that are thrown away in one column. Now try to think of ways rubbish can be reused. List them. Tick those that happen in the school. Display the list in the school and share with the community by displaying in a local shopping centre or newspaper. Example below:
Make recycled paper Make recycled paper from paper collected in school office. Small kits are available commercially. The recycled paper could be then used as a gift or as cards and notes to thank people who help out in the classroom and school. Playing with language View the second half of Munch Kids. List the ideas raised. Discuss all the sayings that refer to waste or rubbish, eg: wasting time, rubbishing someone, being treated like dirt. Thinking about rubbish Imagine a world without rubbish. What are the rules/initiatives we have now about littering and recycling? What causes problems? What would need to happen, to change? Make a collage Introduce collage as a visual arts medium. Discuss why it is an obvious choice for this topic. Supply a range of scraps and materials to create students' collages. The focus for this activity could be to create posters that carry a message about rubbish/ littering. Display in the school or local community, eg: health centre, shops. Students could work in small groups for this activity. An additional challenge could be to create moving parts. Supply springs, paper fasteners, wire, cogs, gears, etc. Other resources Into the unknown ep 06A Lift Off 1 . This episode is about Max who is learning to roller blade but is not too steady as yet. He knocks over the art teacher's sculpture made from discarded bits and pieces of old machines. Paul, Max and Turbo surprise the teacher by putting it back together into a sculpture that works.
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