Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 127
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Sentence stems
Suggestions
At home we could . . .
Reduce:
At home we should . . .
– take our own shopping bags to the
supermarket
At school we could . . .
– buy goods with little or no packaging
At school we should . . .
– say No to plastic bags
Reuse:
– start a compost for food scraps
– use magazines and paper for school craft
activities
– give our old games and clothes to charity
Recycle:
– collect bottles, cans, and paper, cardboard
and plastic containers and put them into
recycling bins
Follow-up
• Ask each group to tell the class about their suggestions. Each group could
record their suggestions on a piece of card and display them in the
classroom.
• Here is another activity that might be a useful preparation for the above
activity. Read out a list of items and ask the children to write them down
in the appropriate recycling ‘bin’. The bins are labelled: paper, plastic,
glass, food scraps, aluminium cans. The list of items that are read out
could include things like: a bottle, a banana skin, a newspaper, a yoghurt
pot, a drink can.
• The children could create posters to promote environmentally friendly
practices at their school. These could be displayed on notice boards
throughout the school.
• For other procedures and instructions, see Activities 2.9, 3.4, 4.12, 4.15,
4.18, 5.8, 6.10, 6.13.
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