CLASS ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS
Grades K - 8
CONTENTS:
It's in the News
(Language Arts)
1
Students read newspapers and collect articles concerning waste management and
recycling in their region and community. Students write an article for the
newspaper about recycling.
Fashion and Design
(Arts & Crafts)
2
Students create new styles and fashions using their imagination and reusable
items.
Track your Consumption (Math)
4
Students create bar graphs based on estimations and data collected about their
own use of disposable beverage containers.
Changing Times
(Social /Communications)
6
Students interview elders to compare products and consumerism in the past
with the present day.
Reusing Things for the Fun of It (Cultural / Arts)
9
Students research how other cultures reuse objects to make toys and games.
Students invent their own game with reused items.
Class Activities and Projects. K - 8
(Linking recycling to other subject areas. These activities can be expanded
or simplified to be appropriate for all grade levels)
Drama
14
Recycling Machine. A dramatic skit that demonstrates the products made
from recycled beverage containers.
Melodrama
How to write your own environmental melodrama. 16
An example of a script is provided.
17
The Recyclables
A series of scripts for classroom or student clubs that
follow a group of beverage container characters on a
series of adventures. The scripts are available on our
website. www.enr.gov.nt.ca/eps/beverage.htm
(Recommended for grades 7 and up)
Music
11
The Can Came Back
To the tune of "The Cat Came Back" by Harry S. Miller 12
Students make up their own verses tel