National Recycling Week - Recycle Rescue (NAPLAN Writing Practice)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 5 English:

• Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced (ACELT1612).
• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704).

Syllabus outcomes: EN3-2A, EN3-7C

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capabilities.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.3, OI.7, OI.9

Relevant parts of the Year 5 achievement standards: Students create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts for different purposes and audiences.

Unit of work: National Recycling week

Time required: 60 min

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – oversee activity  

• Internet access
• Data projectors and compatible device capable of playing an online video
• Student Worksheet (one copy per student OR computers/tablets to access the online worksheet)
• Pen and paper for story writing

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

• Critical thinking
• Creativity
• Communication
• Empathy

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.