Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Triple Threat to Trash Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Kindergarten PBL Project

Triple Threat to Trash Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Triple Threat to Trash Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Triple Threat to Trash Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Week 1 Lessons and Activities Background Knowledge, Read Aloud, Foundational Information. How Can we use the Phrase Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle to Create a plan for how our school deals with waste?

Survey! Collect data about what can and cant be recycled.

Energy Check List

How much paper?

Step 1: How Can we use the Phrase Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle to Create a plan for how our school deals with waste? We will be able to understand and communicate the purpose of the project based activity.

Step 2: Survey! Collect data about what can and cant be recycled.We will be able to collect and interpret data in our school about the 3Rs.

Step 3: Energy Check ListWe will be able to explain what types of energy are used at school and ways to reduce uses of energy!

Step 4: How much paper?We will be able to make educated predictions about how much paper waste our kindergarten class makes each week.

Week 2 Lessons and Activities Waste Pyramid

Planning our Project (3-D Model)

Creating Our Project (3-D Model)

Step 5: Waste PyramidWe will be able to explain the waste pyramid and different ways students are able to reuse old materials.

Step 6: Planning our Project (3-D Model)We will be able to plan our 3-D sketch using reusable materials to make a Re-used project.

Step 7: Creating Our Project (3-D Model)We will be able to create a 3-D model from our sketch.

Week 3 Lessons and Activities Plan our Three Rs Poster

Create our Three Rs Poster

Planning and creating our commercial

Presenting our Commercial, Poster, and 3-D model

Step 8: Plan our Three Rs PosterWe will be able to cooperate and plan posters to show clear understanding of ways we can reduce, reuse or recycle.

Step 9: Create our Three Rs PosterWe will be able to create posters to show clear understanding of ways the students can reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Step 10: Planning and creating our commercialWe will be able to explain our posters in a commercial type format to demonstrate our knowledge of reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Step 11: Presenting our Commercial, Poster, and 3-D modelWe will present all of our work to the school at the assembly.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKvGgb3YcDQReduce, Reuse, Recycle SongReduce, Reuse and Recycle Children's song by Patty Shukla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ns8TRWIWGA

What can plastic bottles be made into?http://www.ecouterre.com/watch-how-nike-recycles-plastic-water-bottles-into-football-jerseys-video/

Commercials

ReflectionsWe will be able to reflect on ways we can help our earth and items we can recycle.

Rubrics