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Students prepare a plan to improve their classroom 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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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)
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661)

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)
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671)

Year 2 Science

People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things (ACSHE035)
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, EN1-2A.

Time required: 60 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – facilitate activity.

Art materials, pens, pencils, paper, cameras and access to a computer and printer, student worksheet.

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