Clean Up Australia - Litterbug Campaign: Year 9 & 10

Activity Introduction

Quick summary: Students will consider why and how people litter, then develop a campaign to convince litterbugs to refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle. They will consider the environmental and social impacts of littering.

Following this lesson plan is an ideal way for your school to take part in Schools Clean Up Day or a Clean Up on any day of the year. You’ll be joining thousands of amazing teachers in making a difference and creating positive environmental change.

Learning intentions:

Students understand the social and environmental implications of littering
Students begin to take responsibility for unwanted food packaging
Students will rethink the concept of why people litter and how they can change litterbugs value set.

21st century skills:

Communicating Critical Thinking Problem Solving

Australian Curriculum Mapping

Content description:

Year 9 English

Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that present a point of view and advance or illustrate arguments, including texts that integrate visual, print and/or audio features (ACELY1746)
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for aesthetic and playful purposes (ACELY1741)
Use interaction skills to present and discuss an idea and to influence and engage an audience by selecting persuasive language, varying voice tone, pitch, and pace, and using elements such as music and sound effects (ACELY1811)

Year 10 English

Create sustained texts, including texts that combine specific digital or media content, for imaginative, informative, or persuasive purposes that reflect upon challenging and complex issues (ACELY1756)
Identify and explore the purposes and effects of different text structures and language features of spoken texts, and use this knowledge to create purposeful texts that inform, persuade and engage (ACELY1750)
Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to influence a course of action (ACELY1751)

Syllabus outcomes: EN5-2A, EN5-1A, EN5-3B.

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.3, OI.8.

Topic: Waste, Clean Up.

Time required: 60+ mins.

Resources required:

Access to device with editing software
Poster making materials
Various props as required.

Keywords: Food, packaging, waste, litter.

Cool Australia’s curriculum team continually reviews and refines our resources to be in line with changes to the Australian Curriculum.

Worksheets

Teacher Worksheet

Teacher Preparation

Learning intentions: Students will...

... understand the social and environmental implications of littering
... begin to take responsibility for unwanted food packaging
... will rethink the concept of why people litter and how they can change litterbugs value set.

Success criteria: Students can...

... think critically about how other people might think about and perceive litter
... be persuasive when communicating messages about not littering.

Teacher content information: To litter is to illegally dispose of waste, whether intentionally or by accident. In the past, it was legal to throw waste into the street.

This became a problem when people began living in close proximity as cities developed during the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s. Unsanitary disposal of waste encouraged the breeding of insects and rats that carried disease rapidly through the urban population. The government took action to remove rubbish from city streets to prevent

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Student Worksheet

Thought starter: Have you heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Do you know where it comes from?

Think about some common litter items. Use the table below to discuss why and how people litter. What are the environmental impacts of littering?

Table 1.

Why people litter

How people litter

Environmental Impacts

There are many types of litterbugs in the world. A study was completed by the Beverage Industry Environment Council, which gave names to these litterbugs. Read about some of them below.

Table 2.

Name	How to spot a litterbug
Foul Shooting Litterbug	Litter is thrown at a bin, it misses the bin and the person walks away
Clean Sweeping Litterbug	On arriving at a table where others have littered, waste is swept onto the ground.
Flagrant Flinging Litterbug	Litter is flung through the air or dropped without any apparent concern
90% Litterbug	Most

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Activity: Clean Up Australia – Litterbug Campaign: Year 9 & 10