National Recycling Week - Is That Rubbish?

Year 7 Mathematics:

• Establish the formulas for areas of rectangles, triangles and parallelograms and use these in problem solving (ACMMG159)
• Identify and investigate issues involving numerical data collected from primary and secondary sources (ACMSP169)

Year level: 7

Time needed: 90 min

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – demonstrate to students how to setup a five by five metre grid around waste bins so they can collect and record data about litter.

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Critical Thinking
• Problem solving
• Collaboration

• Measuring tapes at least 20 metres long or trundle wheels
• Maps of the school with an approximate scale

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.