Secondary school resources

Meet teenagers Charlie and Joel - your hosts for REGENERATION, a fresh and engaging investigation into recycling and the wide range of issues it affects.

By using an environmental topic your students can relate to, our easy to use resources can help you to deliver key concepts of the Citizenship Curriculum for KS3.

Challenge students' preconceived ideas and attitudes to recycling with our inspiring lesson plans and assembly presentation.

Then our extended project, which can count towards your schools Eco-schools work, allows students to use what they have learned to make real change in your community.

Choose your own approach using our materials

The materials support a flexible approach to the topic. The suggested lessons are built around one or more core activities. Each lesson uses video, student activities (which you can also project), and in some cases an online activity.

Lesson plans let you know which resources you will need, any other preparation required, and provide a suggested approach for delivering the activities. Each lesson plan can easily be adapted to suit your students, and the time you have available.

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LESSON PLANS

Check out these four tried and tested lesson plans (with supporting video content and student activities):

ASSEMBLY

You can use the Asssembly Powerpoint with a year group or with the whole school to raise awareness of recycling, explain why it matters and demonstrate that individual actions really do make a difference.

Running an assembly

EXTENDED SCHOOL PROJECT

The School project builds on lesson 4 to support a fully-fledged school recycling campaign. You can even use this to help your school achieve Eco-Schools status, or as part of your work towards the goals of the National Framework for Sustainable Schools.

Extended school project

Supported by:

The British Glass Manufacturers' Confederation represents the UK's glass industry. It acts as the industry's focal point, playing the principal role in communicating the concerns and aspirations of its Members to the Government, the European Union and other external interest groups and trade bodies.

SCRiB, sponsored by Corus, offers the most up to date classroom activities and extensive information about steel packaging and how its recycled.

Novelis operates Europe's only dedicated aluminium can recycling plant, which has the capacity to recycle every drink can sold in the UK for the foreseeable future - over 5 billion cans. We work with local authorities and a wide variety of organisations to promote aluminium and recycling, and produce our own resources for schools. Visit www.thinkcans.com for more information

PaperChain is a highly focused campaign sponsored by UK Papermakers that rely on recovered paper as their primary raw material. In 2008 PaperChain Members recycled 3.3 million tonnes of recovered paper and cardboard, saving over 4.4 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent against other UK disposal options.

RECOUP is the national charity developing plastics recycling in the UK, promoting best practices and providing educational and training tools. Recoup works with its many valued members and partners to maximise efficient plastics recycling and deliver real environmental benefits.