Waste Spotto

Waste Spotto

Lesson 10 of 9 in this unit

  • Primary
  • Year 3 - 4
  • English
  • Text Analysis
  • Reading
  • Environmental
  • Recycling
  • Sustainability
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Lesson summary

Students will explore the waste disposal methods at their school. They will take a tour of the school and use a PMI chart to work in groups to assess waste disposal sites. Students will share their impressions with the class.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • use questioning skills to analyse waste disposal methods and behaviours.

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • think critically about how their school manages waste
  • collaborate to improve waste disposal methods in their school community.

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Student Worksheet
PMI Chart

Lesson details

Skills

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

  • critical thinking
  • collaboration
  • communication

Curriculum Mapping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 3 English

Students learn to:

  • use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features (AC9E3LY05).

Year 4 English

Students learn to:

  • use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts (AC9E4LY05).

Relevant parts of Year 3 English achievement standards: Students read, view and comprehend texts, recognising their purpose and audience.

Relevant parts of Year 4 English achievement standards: Students read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student

  • reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension (EN2-RECOM-01).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - lead students in a tour of waste disposal sites around the school, and oversee class discussions and group presentations.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

  • Target 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

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Additional Info

This unit of lessons is designed for students to build their literacy comprehension skills while exploring the real-world issue of waste. Cool.org thanks our philanthropic funder, Eldon and Anne Foote Trust, through the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, for their generous contributions in creating these resources.

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