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Grade Level: K-2
Academic Areas: Language Arts
Duration of service: Year Long
Character Virtues: Giving, Responsibility, Civic virtue and Citizenship
Caring
Service Areas: Education/Tutoring, Environmental
Service Learning Project:
After an exploration of the concept of recycling using film,
and literature, K-2 students will bring in plastic soda bottles
and design a recycling center in their room. Students measure
with standard and non standard units comparing and contrasting
with classroom objects, graphing bottles by size, sorting bottles
and tallying daily results. Students create bottle banks to collect
redemption money. When 100 bottles are tallied, parents, students,
and teachers take bottles to redemption center. Money is used
to demonstrate division and coin value. Throughout project pictures
are taken for photo big book. Recycling will be continued throughout
semester with money donated to charity.
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: Understand the importance of recycling
Standard: II- Health Phys Ed, Family Consumer Science
Learning Goal: Sorting/ Measuring with standard and non- standard
units; graphing
Standard: III MST
Service
Community need: Our community mandates recycling. It is important
for primary students to develop respect and responsibility for
keeping their community clean.
Possible Community Partners: Recycling center/ grocery outlet
Objective: Students will collect 100 plastic bottles/eachclass/
to recycle and redeem the deposit collected.
Objective: Understand the benefits of recycling for our environment
Character
Virtue: Civic virtue and citizenship
Objective: Children will develop a greater respect for our earth.
Virtue: Responsibility and giving
Objective: The culminating goal is to donate the ” recycling
counter” class money to a charity of choice.
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. Introduce ”reduce, reuse, recycle” slogan with
films, literature and guest speaker from recycling center.
2. Students will learn about and sequence the life cycle of a
plastic bottle, (i.e.) on shelf when brought home, consumed, cleaned,
recycled, redeemed, new product.
3. Students will learn what is necessary for a classroom recycle
center.
Key Service Activities
1. Students will create a classroom recycling center. They will
collect, sort and clean bottles for redemption.
2. Students will create posters to show the importance of recycling
for the earth to be displayed throughout the school and community.
3. Students will continue to collect and redeem bottles for remainder
of year. Money will be donated to a charity selected by the students.
Representatives from local environmental charities will be invited
to the class to present the cause they represent.
4. Students will make presentations to other classes, the PTA,
board members, etc. about the recycling center.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral) Students will discuss why recycling is everyone’s
responsibility.
2. (written) Students identify the most important thing others
need to know about the classroom recycling center and how they
can encourage others to be a good citizen and recycle.
3. (performance) Photo-big book; The class will chronicle their
experience of recycling. Each students will add something to the
book to show how their efforts created a better world by becoming
good citizens and enhancing their respect for the community they
live in.
Demonstration Activity
Students present their photo- big book to the school’s
library, or redemption center. At this presentation parents, community
leaders, and school members will be invited to attend. Presentation
of charity donation.
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