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giving children the power to fight waste
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Resources, support and guidance up to Key Stage 4
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle#cleanerbrum
What is the Zero Hero campaign?Birmingham is brimming with potential mini Zero Heroes…
Birmingham City Council has launched the Zero Hero campaign to get everyone who lives or works in the city to reduce, reuse and recycle a bit more every day. The campaign is designed in various strands to suit the different groups of people who make up the city, with this Education Toolkit central to helping the youngest inhabitants learn the importance of reducing waste.
The whole focus of the campaign is to encourage people to reduce their waste, reuse items where possible, and, if items can no longer be useful, to recycle them. Birmingham aims to be a zero waste to landfill city by 2035, and the Zero Hero campaign is a great opportunity to educate the next generation on their responsibilities – all through fun, curriculum-based learning.
This Zero Hero toolkit contains details of essential resources, lesson plans, information on the popular SKIPS Programme (predominantly Key Stage 2), and exclusive teacher training days.
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle#cleanerbrum
Resources available for big Zero Heroes
You can find everything you need to get your mini Zero Heroes started at the Cleaner Brum digital library: birmingham.gov.uk/cleanerbrum
The digital library keeps everything in one handy place, including:
• Lesson plans on topics like composting and recycling
• Posters for both primary and secondary education
• PDF books, i.e. ‘The Rubbish Monster’
• SKIPS Programme resources, including workbooks with educational crosswords, dot-to-dots, and word searches, for use both at school and at home.
Get your Zero Hero lessons off to a flying start
SKIPS Zero Hero teacher training days
To help you get the most out of the Zero Hero resources there will be ongoing teacher training days that focus on the fun yet effective SKIPS Programme. SKIPS resources are mainly aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils, and all workbooks are designed to encourage parent/guardian involvement.
The next training day is 25 November and now open to applicants, with additional dates to be confirmed.
AimThe seminar aims to teach global knowledge and change perspectives on climate change and sustainability, both inspiring and equipping teachers to make their schools sustainable by providing suggestions for a series of lessons and empowering teachers to suggest a ‘whole school approach’ for their school.
ObjectivesThe training session will:
• Address the ‘whole school approach’ to achieving a sustainable school both with regard to the total management of the participating school’s buildings and grounds and the curriculum
• Introduce the development of an action plan around ‘Sustainable Schools’ activities
• Explain the whole SKIPS methodology, approach and process
• Introduce the development of lesson planning around sustainability themes.
If you would like to attend the training book your place now by visiting birmingham.gov.uk/cleanerbrum
If you have any general queries regarding the training, please contact the Sustainability Team on [email protected]
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textiles
• clothing • fabric • blankets
• food • cardboard • glass
ACtIvIty 4Reduce Litter
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Suggested Learning Intentions: Pupils will: • Recognise the consequences of dropping litter • Develop a sense of responsibility and reduce anti-social behaviour
Connected Learning Opportunities:KS1&2: LanguageandLiteracy–talkingandlistening; reading and writing. KS1&2: The World Around Us – Geography (environmental awareness).KS1&2: The Arts – Art and Design; Music and Drama.KS1&2 PD&MU – learning to live as members of the community.
Thinking Skills & Personal Capabilities:BeingCreative.
Cross-Curricular Skills:Communication, Using ICT.
Eco-SchoolsThis lesson can be used as a curricular link if your school is using litter as a focus topic on the Eco-School’s Programme.
Reduce Activity
help your school help your environment
Why Recycle?
Recycling helps tackle climate change:
Recycling 1 tonne of paper saves 1.32 tonnes of CO2
– the equivalent of not driving 3700 miles.
1tonne
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recycled paper
saves
3700 miles
You can make a
difference
help your school help your environment
food waste
• fruit & vegetable peelings • cooked food
• packed lunch waste • plate scrapings
• plastics
• foil
• cling film
cardboard
• flattened cardboard
• card packaging
• paper
• magazines
• food & drinks cartons
paper
• copier paper
• computer paper
• office paper
• newspapers
• magazines
cans
• drink cans
• food tins
please wash all
cans and tins
• plastic bottles
• aerosols
• coated paper
• copier paper wrappers
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‘Bridging the gap between school and home’
What sets the SKIPS workbooks apart is that everything is child-centric, with fun quizzes, bright illustrations and lively copy. Birmingham City Council works with SKIPS to create challenging puzzles that are accessible to children of all abilities, so the whole class can learn while having fun. There’s a big emphasis on the books being something to be worked through with an adult, usually a parent or guardian, making learning a collaborative experience.
What’s super about SKIPS?
A Giant Change Education Programme
This certificate is presented to
for
successfully completing
the Giant Change Challenge
signed
dated
Your school would like you to receive a free book of the SKIPS Energy, Water and Waste homework book,
“A Giant Change”.
You will find this book fun and colourful. The puzzles and activities will help your family (you and your
child) to understand better what is being taught in school about saving energy, water and waste.
Your child will love it if you can help them with this homework book – please complete it together. This
can save you money in your home too!
There is a great competition at the end of the book in which your child has a chance to win a free iPad. It
is important to us that you enter the competition so that we can hear your views.
How to claim your free book
Please fill the attached form and send it back to your school with your child. Your child will receive their
book on receipt of this completed form.
Can you make a Giant Change?
working in
partnership with
Sustainable Schools Taster Day
1
A Giant Change for Climate
Change • If everyone used as
much electricity, gas and
water and threw away as
much rubbish as we do
in the UK we would need
3 planet earth’s worth of
natural resources so
there is enough for
everyone to go around
PowerPoint by Lorraine Cookson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6uMUJ
fYiM4Climate Change in animation (5.07)
What is Climate Change• Our climate is changing!
Weather all over the world is
changing
• The earth has always got
hotter and cooler, wetter and
drier, over long periods of time.
• These changes are natural but
what we are doing is making
changes to the climate and it’s
these changes we can do
something about
• We need to make changes to
our lifestyles that will make a
difference to our planet. The
climate effects everything, not
just the environment but
poverty and how people live
What is the Greenhouse effect?
• If you walk into a greenhouse
on a sunny day you will notice
that it is very warm inside. The
sun’s heat comes in through
the glass but can't get back out
• Gases released into the earth’s
atmosphere like carbon
dioxide, CO2 (a greenhouse
gas) work in a similar way.
They help trap some of the
heat from the sun, just like a
greenhouse, keeping the
planet at the right temperature
for us to live. The greenhouse
effect is good for the earth
when it occurs naturally
SKIPS teacher-friendly resources are designed for Key Stage 2 pupils, with the aim of encouraging behaviour change principles that extend beyond the school gates and continue back home. The fantastic ‘A Giant Change’ workbook, created in partnership with Veolia and Birmingham City Council, brings the perils of not recycling to life. There are bold cartoons and specific information about how waste is handled in Birmingham, alongside compelling evidence of why everyone in the city needs to do their bit to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as they can.
You can find out more about SKIPS resources by signing up to the teacher training day on 25 November 2016, as well as visiting the digital library: birmingham.gov.uk/cleanerbrum
glass
• bottles• jars
• drinking glasses• pyrex glass • crockery
cans
• drink cans• food tins
please wash all cans and tins
• plastic bottles• aerosols
Download all these, and more, from birmingham.gov.uk/cleanerbrum
Item Brief description Theme Format Key stage
Action plan – activity lesson plan
Action plan and PDF on waste audit and on interpreting data
Recycle PDF KS3 & 4
Assembly presentation secondary school
Assembly PowerPoint presentation on the recycling process
Recycle PDF and PPT KS3 & 4
Cans and glass multi-material recycling bin sticker
Recycling sticker for cans and glass Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Cans indoor recycling point sign
Recycling sticker for cans Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Cans sticker for schools Recycling sticker for cans and food tins Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Cardboard sticker for school
Recycling sticker for cardboard and card packaging Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Composting at school guide
Composting guide on how to make a real success of composting at school
Recycle PDF KS1 & 2
Cooking class toolkit Online interactive toolkit for cooking classes with different courses, (4 week course with cooking, 4 week course without cooking or a one off class)
Recycle, reduce and reuse
Interactive PDF
KS3 & 4
Creative composting teachers’ pack KS1
Pupils’ resources pack, activity cards and teachers’ work cards introducing the world of composting
Recycle PDF KS1
Creative composting teachers’ pack KS2
Pupils’ resources pack, activity cards and teachers’ work cards introducing the world of composting
Recycle PDF KS2
Design and technology KS1 lesson plan
Designing novelty bins to encourage children to put the right recyclable waste in the correct bin
Recycle PDF KS1
Food waste and cardboard multi-material recycling bin sticker
Food waste and cardboard stickers Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Food waste external bin sticker
Food waste only recycling sticker Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Food waste internal recycling point sign – multiple items
Food waste recycling sticker Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Food waste sticker for schools – multiple food types
Food waste recycling sticker for fruit and veg Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Food waste assembly primary school
Making the most of food at school presentation Reduce PPT KS1 & 2
Action plan
Learning Objectives
• Interpret data from the waste audit.
• Evaluate needs arising from the audit data.
• Provide realistic solutions to these needs.
• Co-operate effectively as a group.
Curriculum Links
English, Science, Geography, Citizenship
Sustainable Schools Doorways
Doorway 4 Purchasing and Waste
Doorway 5 Buildings and Grounds
A. Preparation
1. Before this activity, you should carry out a waste audit (see ‘Waste audit’ activity).
2. If you are about to set up a new recycling scheme, assess the data from your waste audit and
contact your local authority to discuss recycling collections for your school (see ‘Organising your
school’s recycling to be collected’ in this Action Pack). Liaise with your bursar, site
manager/caretaker and the school management to find out about existing rubbish collections,
costs and frequency.
B. Action plan
1. Waste audit review
• As a class, discuss the environmental benefits of recycling outlined in this Action Pack, see the
section on ‘Environmental Benefits’.
• Present the data collated from the waste audit and, as a class, identify the waste ‘hot spots’, and
most common types of waste found at the school. Discuss why certain locations and materials
present greater problems than others and agree likely explanations.
2. Group brainstorming
• With these explanations agreed, break the class up into smaller groups and come up with
solutions to the school’s waste issues. Groups can be assigned specific hot spots or materials to
address. Alternatively all groups can be assigned the same prominent waste issues to achieve a
greater variety of interesting solutions.
• Student groups can use the template overleaf to draw up their suggestions.
• As a class, discuss and agree which proposed solutions will be most effective.
• Collate these agreed solutions into a final action plan, using the template provided overleaf.
• Assign tasks to appropriate individuals within the class and across the school, and agree realistic
timeframes in which tasks should be completed.
3. Execute your tasks
Assign some class time for your students to carry out the activities they have assigned themselves
and to notify other staff and students of the responsibilities assigned to them. The tasks will
depend on whether you already recycle at school or are about to set up a new recycling scheme.
REGENERATIONSLIDE 3Assembly presentation notes
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It ends up here. Most rubbish that is not recycled ends up being buried in a landfill
site, like this one. There are approximately 800 active landfill sites in the UK, and we need more and more to cope with the amount of rubbish we throw out.Once they’re buried in a landfill site, some things like paper, card and food start to
rot down (anaerobically), producing methane - a powerful greenhouse gas, and a toxic liquid called leachate. Other things, like plastic, cans and glass, don’t easily rot away - they’ll be there for hundreds, or even thousands of years. …and that’s a real waste. Here’s why:Think about the things you throw away. • It might have been a can or bottle that contained your favourite drink,
• Or maybe it was a magazine you enjoyed,• Or the can that your favourite body spray came in. Getting that can, bottle or magazine to you took a lot of effort. The raw materials used to make them had to be extracted, processed and transported, which takes a lot of energy, and uses up the earth’s natural resources.If you put them in the bin when you’ve finished with them, no-one will ever get the benefit from those materials again.So it’s a waste because new raw materials have to be used to make more cans, glass and paper and it’s a waste because landfill sites take up valuable space that could be used for something else.So the question is, why recycle instead? Why does putting your waste in one bin, instead of another, make a difference?Well, here’s why.
As with any other school activity you should ensure that
your children are safe whilst composting.
The composting recipe
It is important that the materials put into the compost bin conform to the
“green” and “brown” balance of 50:50 greens to browns. It is as simple
as that. Examples are:
The greens
The browns
fruit waste
scrunched up thin cardboard
tea bags
cereal and tea packets
grass cuttings
shredded paper
annual plants and flowers
egg boxes
Composting can be used as
a resource for work on:
Minibeasts
School grounds
Food chains
Micro-organisms and decay
Helping plants grow
Measuring
Improving the environment
Involving the local community
in a multitude of ways
How long does it take
to compost?
It will take your compost about a year to
rot down, after which you’ll need to use
it. It will be perfect for flower beds or tubs
around the school, or digging into your
school vegetable patch.
Add a 50:50 balance of greens and browns to keep the bins smelling of
wet soil or the fruit you have put in it.
Composting at School
Why should we compost?
Composting diverts organic waste away
from landfill where it would generate
methane, a harmful greenhouse gas.
Children can therefore compost their fruit
waste from school and contribute to the
reduction of methane into the atmosphere.
www.recyclenow.com/schools
Here is the information you need to make
a real success of composting at school.
Task: Bins for thought
cardboard
• flattened cardboard
• card packaging
• paper
• magazines
• food & drinks cartons
food waste
• fruit and vegetable
• cooked food peelings
• packed lunch waste
• plate scrapings
• plastics
• foil
• cling film
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• fruit & vegetable peelings • cooked food
• packed lunch waste • plate scrapings
• plastics
• foil
• cling film
Cooking classestoolkit
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Online resources
Subject: Music Key Stage 2 Length of lesson: 1hr
Composing raps based around the theme of recyclingLearning ObjectivesAll: I can compose and perform a rap about
recycling
Most: I can fit the words I
compose to the beat.Some: I can compose a melody for the words.N.C. PoS Music
2b: explore, choose, com-
bine and organise musi-cal ideas within musical
structures.
1c: practise, rehearse and
present performances with
an awareness of the audi-
ence.
Introduction (20 mins)Re-cap on the key messages from the assembly materials
by playing the quiz with pupils. The quiz will cover: why we
recycle, what can be recycled, where to recycle. Split the class
into teams. Discuss the answers to each question.
Play “Busta and Pong’s recycling song” from the assembly.
Explain that music is one way of spreading the message about
recycling. Explain to the children that that their task will be to create a
rap to the steady rhythm of a keyboard beat or drum to tell
other children about why we recycle, what we recycle and
where we recycle. The class will be split into 3 groups. Each
group will have a different theme and will create a rap which
fits in with a count of 32. They will chant the chorus of Busta and Pong’s recycling song
together and identify the beat of the chorus. Main Activity (30 mins)In ability groups children to use their theme to:
•comeupwithideasrelatedtotheirtheme–thought
shower (5 minutes)
•Turntheseideasintolyricstofitwithabeatof32.
(15 minutes)
•writelyricsoutonalargesheetofpaper.(5minutes)
•practiseperformingtherap(5minutes).
Key VocabularyRecycleReduce
Landfill Climate changeWasteRubbish
Natural resourcesPlasticMetal
PaperCardboardGlass
Compost
Resources•Computer& interactive white board.
•“Busta&Pong’srecycling song” music
file.•Recyclingquiz
PowerPoint •Cleanedrecyclablematerials.•Recyclingcontainer
(from classroom, or from home).•Worksheets:with
space for thought shower and lyrics. •largesheetsof
paper and pens for lyrics
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INSERT YOUR LOCALTOWN OR AREA
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If EVERY household in recycled ONE moreshampoo bottle...
www.councilwebsite.com/recyclingpage
WHITEOUT COUNCIL LOGO TO GO HERE
WHITEOUT RECYCLE FOR [AREA] LOGO TO GO HERE. THIS BOX IS THE X-HEIGHT OF THE LOGO
Online resources (continued)
Download all these, and more, from birmingham.gov.uk/cleanerbrum
Food waste secondary school updated
Problems associated with food waste Reduce PPT KS3 & 4
Glass internal recycling point sign
Glass recycling sticker Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Glass sticker for schools Glass bottles and jars but not Pyrex Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Lesson 4, legislation, responsibility and civic duty
Students’ sheet, video and teachers’ plan of what can we do to reduce waste
Recycle PDF and WMV file
KS3
Music KS2 lesson plan Composing raps based around the theme of recycling and a quiz
Recycle PDF and PPT KS2
Paper and card multi-material recycling bin sticker
Recycling sticker for paper and cardboard Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Paper internal recycling point
Recycling paper sticker Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Paper, plastic bottles, cans and textiles recycling bin sticker
Paper, plastic bottles, cans and textiles recycling sticker
Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Plastics internal recycling point sign
Recycling plastic bottles sticker Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Posters for teachers introducing the fourth R
Recycling poster introducing recycling Rethink PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Primary school assembly 15 minutes to save the Earth
Teachers’ interactive assembly and video Recycle PDF and WMV file
KS1 & 2
Primary school poster are you a recycling star?
Poster to add in pupils’ photos if they are a recycling star
Recycle PDF and AI KS1 & 2
Primary school remember to use the recycling points around your school
Poster encourgaging recycling stars Recycle PDF and AI KS1 & 2
Task 2: Use your ideas to write a rap about why we recycle- it must
fit into the count of 32 (8 counts of 4).
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plastic
bottles
• plastic bottles
• crisp packets
• yoghurt pots
• cling film • plastic bags
• sandwich wrappers
please rinse
all bottles
cans
• drink cans
• food tins
please wash all
cans and tins
• plastic bottles
• aerosols
paper
• copier paper
• computer paper
• office paper
• newspapers
• magazines
textiles
• clothing
• fabric
• blankets
• food
• cardboard
• glass
• coated paper
• copier paper wrappers
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Area of school White paper (g)Coloured paper (g)
Card-board (g)
Plastic (g) Metal (g) Glass (g)Food waste (g)
Other (g) Total (area)
Example: Classroom 1 200g140g
80g40g
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40g600g
Total (material)
MaterialSchool Total (kg)per day
School Total (kg)per week (x5 days) School Total (kg)
per year (x38 weeks) %
White paper
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Cardboard
Plastics
Metal
Glass
Fabric
Food waste
Total
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Pupil worksheet: Waste Audit
Date(s) of audit:
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Lesson 4 | Student sheetsCREATE yOuR OwN RECyCLE NOw ACTION pLANNow it’s up to YoU. Decide what you’re going to do to make a difference.
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REASONS TO RECyCLE
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SET A DEADLINE, REvIEw pROGRESS AND ThEN CARRy ON!
Think of some good reasons for recycling. Read these whenever you need reminding!
Use the ideas you’ve discussed in class, and visit www.recyclenow.com/schools
for more. Your ideas don’t have to be unique, so share the best ones! Start with the waste
‘hotspots’ in your home or school, or when you know you’re least likely to bother.
We’ve done one for you. Now add five steps that YoU’LL put in YoUR plan to recycle more at
home, at school, and when out and about.
I will have taken all these steps by
Remember to keep going, and keep recycling! you might even think of more things you can do.
What I’ll tackleWhat I’ll do
What gets in the way What will help
Recycling rubbish from the bathroom bin. Put another bin there, for things that can be recycled.My family aren’t sure what can go in it. Stick a list on top to tell them.
Set an example myself.Check the bin once a week.
www.councilwebsite.com/recyclingpage
WHITEOUT COUNCIL
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Look out for the recycling points around
your school and remember to use them
help your school help your environment
REGENERATION
LESSON 1:
WHAT DO I THINK ABOUT RECYCLING?
Overview
This opening lesson places recycling in the context of students’ lives. It creates a baseline for the rest of
the activities by exploring students’ current understanding, attitudes and actions. This paves the way for
future activities that expand students’ knowledge and understanding and help them to think and respond
differently at times when they must make a choice. It includes an optional quiz to explore some of the
facts and figures.
Learning outcomes
Recycling knowledge and
understanding
Citizenship concepts and
processes
Personal, Learning and
Thinking Skills
• A wide range of materials can
be recycled, including paper
and card, glass bottles and
jars, steel and aluminium food
and drinks cans and plastic
bottles.
• Materials can be recycled at
a range of facilities including
kerbside collection from
homes, public recycling
centres and recycling bins in
shops and leisure facilities
• Our own attitudes (and
knowledge) influence our
choices to recycle/ not to
recycle.
1.1b What is fair and unfair?
1.2a Rights and obligations
2.2a Expressing opinions
2.2b Communicating an
argument
2.2c Justifying an argument
and persuading others
IE: Explore an issue from different
perspectives
IE: Consider the influence of
circumstances and beliefs on
decisions
CT: Question their own and others’
assumptions
RL: Invite feedback and deal with
criticism
EP: Discuss issues of concern
EP: Present a persuasive case for
action
EP: Try to influence others
Resources
Printed:
For projection:
• Recycling: the facts (Quiz sheet)
• What do I think about recycling? (Stimulus
statements sheet)
• Opinions template
• Video 1
• Printed resources
• Assembly PowerPoint slides: recycling bins and
logos
Preparation
Read the background information.
Research local recycling facilities. You can use the postcode locator at www.recyclenow.com to help
you.
If you don’t want to project and write directly onto your whiteboard, use the ‘opinions’ template to copy
the outline of the waste and recycling bins onto a large sheet of paper.
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Reducing food waste in schools
Background information
“After half an hour queuing
you are in a rush to eat
quickly and get outside”
Comment on the dining
experience from Year 7 pupil
“Children are cautious
of unfamiliar foods, for
example they wouldn’t eat
the new organic chicken
sausages because they
were white”
Comment on unfamiliar foods
from school cook
“Cooks never know how
many pupils will want to eat
and everyone has to have
the opportunity to eat, so a
lot has to be prepared”
Comment on the lack of ability to
plan quantities in advance from
Business Manager
“Portion sizes need looking
at. Often the portions are
too big for the smallest
children”Comment on portion sizes from
school caretaker
Recycling transforms things:
25 plastic bottles can be recycled to make one new fleece jacket.
25 X=
fleece
plastic
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Why Recycle?
Online resources (continued)
Download all these, and more, from birmingham.gov.uk/cleanerbrum
Recycle here sign for schools
Recycle here poster Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Recycling races – activity lesson plan
Understanding the recycling process, the benefits of recycling and which materials can be recycled
Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Reducing food waste in schools resources
Improving the school meal system by involving parents and being more proactive with children’s lunchtime choices
Reduce PDF KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Regeneration secondary school lesson 1
This lesson plan places recycling in the context of students’ lives, includes teachers’ notes, a quiz and student sheets
Recycle PDF and WMV file
KS3
Regeneration secondary school lesson 2
This lesson builds on the ideas from lesson one and looks at the environmental context for recycling
Recycle PDF, PPT and WMV file
KS3
Regeneration secondary school lesson 3
This lesson explores the legislation, the responsibilities of national and local government and retailers and the opportunities for local civic groups to support change
Recycle PDF and WMV file
KS3
Secondary school poster you can make a difference
Poster showing pupils recycling – girls Recycle PDF and AI KS3 & 4
Secondary school poster recycle are you doing it?
Poster showing pupils recycling – boys Recycle PDF and AI KS3 & 4
Secondary school poster you can make a difference
Poster showing pupils recycling both girls and boys Recycle PDF and AI KS3 & 4
Textiles internal signage for schools
Textiles recycling poster Recycle PDF and AI KS3 & 4
The Rubbish Monster – activities
Activities to sit alongside the books Recycle PDF and AI KS1 & 2
The Rubbish Monster books 1, 2, 3
Three books that focus on waste Recycle PDF KS1 & 2
The Rubbish Monster – teacher resources
Teacher packs to sit alongside the Rubbish Monster books
Recycle PDF KS1 & 2
Waste audit – activity lesson plan
Waste audit for primary school Recycle PDF and AI KS1 & 2
Waste-free lunch activity lesson plan
Waste-free lunchtime, includes letter to parents Recycle PDF KS1 & 2
Why recycle poster 1 Recycling information poster Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Why recycle poster 2 Recycling information poster Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Why recycle poster 3 Recycling information poster Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
Why recycle poster 4 Recycling information poster Recycle PDF and AI KS1, 2, 3 & 4
REGENERATIONSTEELLesson 2 | Student sheets
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RECYCLERECYCLE
RECYCLERECYCLE
RECYCLE
Separated for recycling
Collected, sorted and taken to a recycling factory
Crushed and melted
Made into part of a steel coil
Rolled into a new saucepanhelp your school help your environment
You can make a difference
help your school help your environment
Recycling saves energy:
Recycling one glass bottle or jar saves enough energy to run a
Nintendo Wii for 5 hours!
1 X=
X 5 hrsWhy Recycle?
Nintendo Wii
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Why Recycle?
Recycling helps conserve natural resources:Recycling aluminium cans helps to protect tropical rainforests by reducing the need to mine bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminium.
protects
ACtIvIty 1
What is waste?
Suggested Learning Intentions:
Pupils will:
• Understand the importance of reducing waste
• Develop a personal sense of responsibility for
reducing waste
Connected Learning Opportunities:
KS1&2:LanguageandLiteracy-
Talking and listening; reading and writing.
KS1&2: Mathematics and Numeracy - Number.
Thinking Skills & Personal Capabilities:
Thinking, problem-solving and decision making,
self-management.
Cross-Curricular Skills:
Communication, Using Mathematics.
Eco-Schools
LinkstoEco-Schoolstopicofwaste,climate
change and litter.
Reduce Activity
6.6.6.
ACtIvIty 7Class Recycling SchemeSuggested Learning Intentions:
Pupils will:• Know products made from recycled materials
• Understand the importance of recyclingConnected Learning Opportunities:
KS1&2:LanguageandLiteracy-Talkingand
listening; reading and writing.KS1&2: Mathematics and Numeracy - Measure;
number.KS1&2: The Arts – Art and Design
KS1&2: The World Around Us - Geography
(environmental awareness); Science and
Technology (properties and characteristics of
materials).
Thinking Skills & Personal Capabilities:
Working with others, managing information.Cross-Curricular Skills:Communication, Using ICT.Eco-SchoolsEco-Schools topics of Waste and Climate
Change – use towards 7 steps of environmental
review and action plan when completing audit
activity.
Reduce & Recycle Activity
23.23.12.12.
ACtIvIty 3
How can we reduce the amount of waste we create?Suggested Learning Intentions: Pupils will:• Know and understand alternative ways of dealing with waste
Connected Learning Opportunities:KS1&2:LanguageandLiteracy-Talkingandlistening; reading and writing.KS1&2: Mathematics and Numeracy - Number; shape and space.KS1&2: The World Around Us – Geography (environmental awareness).
Thinking Skills & Personal Capabilities:Thinking, Problem- Solving and decision making,BeingCreative.
Cross-Curricular Skills:Communication, Using Mathematics.
Eco-SchoolsThis activity could help monitor the amount of rubbish in your school and could be used as a baseline as part of the Eco-Schools programme or also as a curriculum activity for the topic of waste. (Eco-Schools methodology Step 5)
Reduce Activity
12.
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