National Recycling Week - Recycling Labels Hopscotch

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Foundation HPE:

• Explore actions that help make the classroom a healthy, safe and active place (ACPPS022)

Foundation Science:

• Objects are made of materials that have observable properties (ACSSU003)
• Share observations and ideas (ACSIS012)

Foundation Technologies:

• Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs (ACTDEK001)

Syllabus outcomes: SLS1.13, STe-4WS, STe-9ME, STe-10ME, ST1-14BE, ST1-15I, ST1-16P

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Foundation Year achievement standards: 
By the end of the Foundation Year, students describe the properties and behaviour of familiar objects.
By the end of Year 2, students describe the purpose of familiar products, services and environments and how they meet a range of present needs.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work: National Recycling Week – Primary

Time required: 50 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – Teacher facilitates instructions and the playing of the game

• Activity Sheets
• Area of asphalt or concrete such as a basketball court
• Boxes, bins or other receptacles (x3)
• Chalk
• Coloured pencils
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Pieces of packaging sourced from student lunchboxes/the classroom, or use these graphics, various
• Recycling label templates

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

• community engagement
• collaboration
• critical thinking
• ethical understanding
• global citizenship
• problem solving

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.