Recycle
Main Focus: Why Reduce Waste?
Why reduce waste…what a great question to begin with for this science / STEm Lesson on recycling!
Your class will recognise the need to reduce the amount of waste, and of course there are many reasons why which your class will explore in this 7-page STEM resource pack for Year 3 and Year 4.
Your KS2 class will learn:
- about the impact upon natural resources, the effect on the natural environment
- complete a sorting activity to identify natural and man-made resources
- conduct an experiment to observe how different materials decompose when they are sent to a landfill.
- make predictions, investigate, answer questions and make observations, plan the experiment and record their results.
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Main Focus: Helping to Recycle
This is a brilliant and visual resource to help your KS2 class recognise their role in the recycling process.
Knowing the bins and what goes inside them is a fundamental place to begin. This knowledge from such a young age will help improve the likelihood of recycling.
We have five pages in this science resource. Your class will sort the rubbish into appropriate bins, learn about the recycling cycle and organise the events.
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Main Focus: Greenhouse Gases
Information
A greenhouse is used by gardeners to make plants grow. They are made from glass. It lets in sunlight and traps heat energy. This can help plants to grow, but a gardener must water the plants to make sure that they don’t wilt and die.
One of the reasons that we must reduce our waste and try to recycle more is because we want to slow down the greenhouse effect.
The greenhouse effect is a name for the way our planet is becoming warmer because of some of the ways humans create pollution.
This is a brilliant resource filled with your class reading the information page to begin. This is then followed by a page where your kids will fill in the missing space suing the key terminology linked to the Greenhouse Gases.
Next your KS2 class will complete an experiment. This experiment will help them to see the impact of global warming on the Earth.
Finally they will answer a range of questions to consolidate their understanding and encourage them to reflect on what they have found out in this science lesson.
Main Focus: Recycling at School
We all knowing the impact litter has on the environment. I suppose we mostly see examples of this in marine wildlife and the harm litter can cause animals.
In this resource, your class will reflect on the litter in the school and complete questionnaires to determine whether or not the school is doing enough in terms of recycling. It also gives them the opportunity to reflect on the strategies the school has implemented to reduce waste and recycle.
We have created seven activity sheets in this activity, including a word search with key terminology.
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Main Focus: Reduce
This is a great recycling STEM activity as it explores practical ways and habits your class can get into from a young age to reduce the amount of waste.
It provides tips such as turning the tap off when brushing your teeth, taking showers, using reusable bottles and cutlery and many more.
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Main Focus: Reuse
Not everything we throw away is rubbish! Finding ways to reuse materials is an important way to ensure there is less waste.
Your KS2 class will carefully have a look inside the classroom bin (use gloves) and name some of the things that have been thrown away. Some waste is rubbish and cannot be used for other purposes, but some waste can be used for different purposes.
You could also use clear plastic bags for this recycling activity so children don’t have to go looking in the bin.
Main Focus: Sorting Rubbish / Questions and Graph
There are a few different resources within this pack on recycling for Year 3 and Year 4 / Aged 7-9 classes.
First, your class will sort the rubbish into the appropriate bins.
Next they will reflect on different ways they could sort their rubbish and write down the pros and cons.
Then your class will answer the questions.
Finally they will create a bar chart from the information provided on the last page.
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Main Focus: Sustainability & Scenarios
This is another brilliant activity pack linked to recycling topic, but this time it focuses on sustainability and provides your class with real world examples and scenarios that they could put into practice in their day to day routines.
This STEM resource includes true or false, completing tables, answering questions, role play and identifying whether it is reducing, reusing, recycling or refusing.
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Main Focus: Single use plastic / Refuse plastic
This activity focuses on the impact plastic has on marine life as a lot of plastic ends up in our oceans.
The first page is an information page that gets your class up to speed on why plastic is so commonly used and its biggest downfall.
The next few pages involve your KS2 class answering the compression style questions to show they understanding. This includes single answer and multiple choice.
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Main Focus: Composting and Food Waste
This science resource focuses on compost, how it is made and how it helps save the environment by making waste useful and cost efficient.
Your class will read our information page at the beginning and the complete the activities on the subsequent pages to deepen their understanding.
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