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Clean Up Australia - What's In Your Bin?
Lesson4 of 16 in this unit
PrimaryYear 5 - 6MathematicsScience
Lesson Summary
Students will investigate the types and amounts of rubbish that they and their family produce over the course of one day. Students will use the worksheet to record their results and will share their results with the class. Activity adapted from Activate Your Students: An inquiry-based learning approach to sustainability.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- learn that even over one day a family can produce quite a lot of waste
- understand the Waste Hierarchy and how it can be used to help us reduce the amount of waste we create
- recognise that much of the waste produced by their families can be recycled and saved from going to landfill.
Success criteria
Students can:
- work independently to calculate the amount of waste produced at home
- know how the waste hierarchy can be used to understand what to do with waste and how to reduce it
- analyse results to draw conclusions and make recommendations about how to reduce waste at home.
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