Visy Education - What Do We Recycle?

Visy Education - What Do We Recycle?

Lesson 3 of 5 in this unit

  • Primary
  • Year 1 - 2
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics
  • Probability
  • Measurement
  • Geometry
  • Environmental
  • Recycling
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • ...

Lesson summary

In this lesson, students will collect data on their own recycling habits and use this to evaluate and reflect upon recycling and waste across the school.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • be able to use arrays to find the approximate amount of recycled material that could be recovered by their class each week
  • understand which materials items can be recycled

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • collect one day’s data then use an array to predict a weekly total
  • collect data about the recyclables that are in the class bin
  • use the data found to work out how many recyclables could be going to landfill
  • name the five main groups of recyclable materials (paper and cardboard, aluminium, steel, plastic and glass)

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Lesson details

Curriculum mapping

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Unit of work: Visy Education – Primary Mathematics.

Time required: 60 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – teacher will model process explicitly before students complete task.

Resources required

  • Device capable of presenting a video to the class
  • Studnt Worksheet (printed, one per student)
  • Class rubbish bin
  • Tongs and/or latex-free gloves (for each student)
  • Recycling Guidelines poster – Australian version (printed, one per each group of three)
  • Recycling Guidelines poster – New Zealand version (printed, one per each group of three)
  • Magnetic counters/tiles or regular counters/tiles and blu-tac

Skills

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Community engagement
  • Creativity
  • Critical thinking
  • Global citizenship

Additional info

This lesson has been developed in partnership with Visy. For over 70 years Visy has been committed to finding sustainable solutions for Australia and New Zealand’s recyclables and helping to reduce local landfills. Visy collects, receives and sorts paper, cardboard, glass, plastics, steel and aluminium from households, businesses and schools with the purpose of reusing these products in the re-manufacture of new packaging products.

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