Recycle PosterDesign a poster to display in a room of your home to encourage the members of your family to recycle. The example below shows how you can encourage someone to recycle in the kitchen.

Draw your poster here:

Design and Technology | LKS2 | Mechanical Posters | Recycling Poster

Choose your room and write some notes about what to recycle and how it can be recycled.

Recycling Sorting Colour in and cut out the images and stick them in the correct box in the table.

Glass Clothes Reusable Items

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Recycling Sorting Answers

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Recycling in the HomeAmazing FactOnly 1% of all rubbish in Sweden is dumped in landfill sites (rubbish dumps). There is a very good recycling program in Sweden and any rubbish that can’t be recycled, is burnt to make energy. Sweden has run out of rubbish to burn and now brings it in from Norway!

ChallengeThere are many things we can recycle. Use the house on the following page and draw different objects that can be recycled in each room.

You could also try to find out:

• how the Swedish recycling system works;

• what happens at the recycling plant;

• how much rubbish is recycled in your country.

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Recycling in the Home

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1. “I don’t live near the sea, so it doesn’t matter to me if the sea gets higher,” said James. Discuss: Do you think James is right? Explain your reasons.

2. Saving electricity is a good way to help stop global warming. Discuss: What different ways can you think of to save electricity?

3. Heat is trapped in the Earth by things called greenhouse gases. Discuss: What is a greenhouse and what are they used for?

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5. One cause of global warming is forests being chopped down. Sometimes they are chopped down to make room to build houses for people to live in. Discuss: What do you think is more important, having forests, or building houses? Explain you answer.

6. Using less plastic is a good way to help stop global warming. Discuss: What ways can you think of to use less plastic?

7. Global warming might sound nice because it means we will have more hot summers. Discuss: Why isn’t global warming a good thing? What problems does it cause?

4. Taking fewer car journeys can help stop global warming. Discuss: What are other ways can you make journeys?

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9. Antarctica and the Arctic, also known as the south pole and the north pole areas, are covered in ice. Global warming means this ice is melting and animals such as polar bears, penguins and seals won’t have anywhere to live. Discuss: What is your favourite animal and why? forests, or building houses? Explain you answer.

10. Global warming means hotter summers. Being out in the sun can be dangerous if you don’t take care. Discuss: How can you keep safe in the sun?

11. Recycling can help reduce global warming. Recycling means using things again instead of just throwing them in the bin. Discuss: What do you recycle? Can you think of any extra recycling you could do?

8. One cause of global warming is forests being destroyed. Discuss: Have you ever been in a forest? What was it like? What could you see, hear and smell?

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Greenhouse GasesCut out and stick the labels in the right boxes. Then answer the questions.

Greenhouse gases are made by factories, cars and other things such

as using lots of electricity.

Some heat escapes back out.

Heat comes from the sun.

Greenhouse gases act like a blanket and trap

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Greenhouse GasesWhat happens because of global warming? How can we help reduce global warming?

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Climate Change Word Search

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gas

rising temperature

ice sea

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Climate Change Word Search

climate changecarbon

greenhouseenvironment

melting

global warmingflooding

hurricanesdrought

gas

rising temperature

ice sea

c l i m a t e n m j k o o p g a s

a w n j f g g x c a s o k s l u i

r a h u r r i c a n e s a d o n t

b f l o m n x y t h g p l q b r e

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a t f l o o d i n g h s d m q z e

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o s x v f g s b c u h n n a x x a

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m h g y l l m n h g r a u m r t e

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Melt the Ice!Your task is to work out the quickest way to melt an ice cube.

I predict that will melt the ice the quickest.

I predict that will melt the ice the slowest.

heat cold water salt sugar other

What melted the ice the quickest?

What melted the ice the slowest?

Draw what happened.

Draw what you will need.

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