National Recycling Week - My Lunch Box

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Foundation Year Science:

• Objects are made of materials that have observable properties (ACSSU003)
• Science involves exploring and observing the world using the senses (ACSHE013)

Foundation Year Geography:

• The reasons why some places are special to people, and how they can be looked after (ACHASSK017)
• Reflect on learning to propose how to care for places and sites that are important or significant (ACHASSI009)

Foundation Year English:

• Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646)
• Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact (ACELY1784)

Syllabus Outcomes: GE-1, GE-2, ST-4WS, ST-9ME, EN-1A. 

• Students’ lunches
• Bins for at least rubbish and recycling
• Copies of worksheets
• Appropriate safe scissors
• Colour markers/pencils

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

• communication
• critical thinking  

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.