National Recycling Week - Waste and Packaging

EYLF Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcome 2:

• Children are connected with and contribute to their world
• 2.3 Children become aware of fairness

Learning Outcome 4:

• Children are confident and involved learners
• 4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
• 4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
• 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials

• A range of waste materials such as a soft drink can or bottle
• an empty tin of beans
• A small section of plastic sandwich wrap
• Chip bag
• Fruit juice box
• Paper bag
• Cardboard box
• Empty plastic food containers (e.g. ice-cream or margarine or yoghurt)
• Newspaper
• Ensure that all items are clean and that sharp edges are covered in masking tape
• Reusing waste activities.

Supporting resources:

• Videos –Managing Classroom Waste and The Aluminium Cycle.
• Waste factsheet

Cool Australia Presents Waste from Cool Australia on Vimeo.
Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week started in 1996 to bring a national focus to the environmental benefits of recycling. This highly regarded annual campaign continues to educate and stimulate behaviour change by promoting kerbside, industrial and community recycling initiative. It also gives people the tools to minimise waste and manage material resources responsibly at home, work and school. In partnership with Planet Ark, we have developed lessons from early learning through to year 10 to help educators bring these important topics into the classroom.

National Recycling Week is held in the second week of November each year but you can recycle all year-round with these lessons which were designed to be used at any time. Click here to find out more about National Recycling Week and the Schools Recycle Right Challenge.