Our classroom waste

Our classroom waste

Lesson 4 of 8 in this unit

  • Primary
  • Year 1 - 2
  • English
  • Science
  • Environmental
  • Sustainability
  • ...

Lesson summary

Students investigate the class waste collection system.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand that different types of containers are used in classrooms to collect different types of waste.

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Lesson details

Curriculum mapping

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 1 English:

  • Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions (ACELY1656)
  • Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (ACELY1660)

Year 1 Science: 

  • People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things (ACSHE022)
  • Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways such as oral and written language, drawing and role play (ACSIS029)

Year 2 English:

  • Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others’ ideas in discussions (ACELY1666)
  • Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670)

Year 2 Science:

  • People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things (ACSHE035)
  • Use a range of methods to sort information, including drawings and provided tables (ACSIS040)
  • Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways such as oral and written language, drawing and role play (ACSIS042)

Syllabus Outcomes: ST1-11LW, ST1-9ES, ST1-4WS, EN1-1A, EN1-4A. 

Time required: 60 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – facilitates activity, photocopies worksheet.

Resources required

  • Art materials
  • Student worksheet

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