Lesson 1: What do I think about recycling?
This lesson places recycling in the context of students’ lives. It opens up the key areas of knowledge and understanding that students will explore. It creates a baseline for the rest of the activities that demonstrates students’ current understanding, attitudes and actions. This paves the way for future activities that expand students’ knowledge and understanding and help them to think and respond differently at times when they must make a choice. It includes an optional quiz to explore some of the facts and figures.
Lesson 1 Video
Joel and Charlie visit Thorpe Park, a major amusement park and visitor attraction, and think about recycling when out and about. They meet a representative from the park who explains about their recycling zones, before interviewing young visitors to find out what they know and think about recycling, why it matters, and whether or not they recycle themselves.
Learning Outcomes
Recycling knowledge and understanding | Citizenship concepts and processes | Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills |
A wide range of materials can be recycled, including paper and card, glass bottles and jars, steel or aluminium food and drinks cans and plastic bottles. Materials can be recycled at a range of facilities including kerbside collection from homes, public recycling centres and recycling bins in shops and leisure facilities Our own attitudes (and knowledge) influence our choices to recycle/ not to recycle.
| 1.1b What is fair and unfair? 1.2a Rights and obligations 2.2a Expressing opinions 2.2b Communicating an argument 2.2c Justifying an argument and persuading others | IE: Explore an issue from different perspectives IE: Consider the influence of circumstances and beliefs on decisions CT: Question their own and others’ assumptions RL: Invite feedback and deal with criticism EP: Discuss issues of concern EP: Present a persuasive case for action EP: Try to influence others |