Lesson summary
In this activity students visit waste disposal stations around the school and use a PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting) tool to investigate how different types of waste are dealt with in the classroom and around the school.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- recognise that there are many different types of waste produced in a school.
- discover that there are a number of different ways that waste is dealt with at their school.
- identify ways that waste disposal methods could be improved at their school.
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Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
Australian Curriculum content descriptions:
Year 4 Science:
- Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE062)
- Represent and communicate ideas and findings in a variety of ways such as diagrams, physical representations and simple reports (ACSIS071)
- Use a range of methods including tables and simple column graphs to represent data and to identify patterns and trends (ACSIS068)
Year 4 Geography:
- The sustainable management of waste from production and consumption (ACHGK025).
Syllabus outcomes: ST2-11LW, ST2-4WS.
Resources required
- lead students on school-wide waste tour
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