Lesson summary
Students investigate what goes into different kerbside bins and will read through a fact sheet to explore where waste in these bins ends up. They will work collaboratively to write a song that communicates to help them remember which bins to put their waste items in.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- explore where waste goes in Australia
- expand topic knowledge of waste management systems in Australia.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- make connections to prior knowledge through discussion
- explain where waste goes and the different measures used to sort waste in Australia.
Lesson guides and printables
Lesson details
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- creative thinking
- 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: Medium - oversee class and group activities and support students in song-writing task.
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
Resources Required
- Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
- Optional - Student Worksheet
- What Happens To Waste Factsheet
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.
Related Professional Learning
Playful Ideas: Primary Literacy
Quick summary: This course is designed to provide you with a range of playful ideas to use in primary classrooms with a literacy focus.
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