How Recycling Works Video
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Author:
Meghan Denson
System: Hoover City School: Brock's Gap Intermediate School
General Activity Information
Activity ID:
2110
Title: How Recycling Works Video
Digital Tool/Resource: How Recycling Works: SciShow Kids/YouTube
Web Address – URL:
Overview: Students will watch the video clip to gain an understanding of what happens to our trash. Students will learn about recycling and decomposing and the types of materials associated with each. Students will write or draw the process of recycling to show what they have learned.
This activity was created as a result of the GAP Resource Development Summit.
Associated Standards and Objectives
Content Standard(s):
Social Studies 9 ) Differentiate between natural resources and human-made products.
• Listing ways to protect our natural resources
Examples: conserving forests by recycling newspapers, conserving energy by turning off lights, promoting protection of resources by participating in activities such as Earth Day and Arbor Day
Unpacked Content
Strand: Economics, Geography
Course Title: Living and Working Together in Family and Community and State
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
Understand natural resources as resources that occur naturally in the environment.
Understand human-made products as products that are created by humans.
Identify ways to protect our natural resources. Teacher Vocabulary:
understand
identify
differentiate
natural resources
human-made products
conserving
recycling
energy
Earth Day
Arbor Day Knowledge:
Students know:
The difference between natural resources and human-made products.
Techniques for protecting natural resources (for example, turning off lights when leaving a room, throwing trash away, recycling paper and plastic, etc.).
Techniques for promoting protection of resources by participating in Earth Day and Arbor Day.
Vocabulary: natural resources, human-made products, conserving, recycling, reduces, reuse, energy, Earth Day, Arbor Day Skills:
Students are able to:
Understand what natural resources and human-made resources are.
Describe ways to protect and conserve natural resources. Understanding:
Students understand that:
There is a difference between natural resources and human-made products.
We must protect and conserve natural resources.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to list ways recycling protects our natural world and how recycling works.
Strategies, Preparations and Variations
Phase: Before/Engage
Activity: 1. The students will watch the video clip on recycling to gain knowledge of how recycling works, why it is important, and the types of materials that can be recycled.
2. After students have watched the video, the teacher will give students a paper or allow students to work in their science notebook.
3. The students will write or draw the process of recycling and three things they have learned about recycling. Remind students to think back to the video they watched.
Assessment Strategies: Students will write or draw the process of recycling to show what they have learned. Ask the students to list or draw three things that can be recycled.
Advanced Preparation: Make sure you have access to play the video on a projector or send students the link to watch on their device.
Variation Tips (optional):
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