How Can You Reduce Your Impact on the Environment?
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Phase:
After/Explain/Elaborate
Activity:
If possible, take the students outside to pick up trash.
Read The Lorax by Dr.Seuss.
Gather items that can be recycled, reused, and reduced. Also, bring three hula-hoops if you have them. You will also need the recycle, reuse, and reduce labels.
Use the labels to label each hoop or sorting area.
Lead students in a sorting activity of the items (water bottles, paper towel rolls, tissue boxes, broken crayons, soda cans, used tissues, etc). After placing each item in the correct hoop, talk about how it can be recycled, reused, or reduced.
Discuss how recycling and reusing items make a positive impact on the environment.
Ask students how they would feel if we did not recycle and there was trash everywhere.
Students will use items in the reuse and recycle circles to create something new.
Students should use their imagination to create something new. Example, they make take a tissue box and make a car or a robot.
Students will share with the class what they created.
Students can create an advertisement for their new product or item. Students can write (or video themselves) about how their creation reduces their human impact on the Earth.