Recycling Food Cans
How children can work together and improve the environment.

The Lessons: An Overview

Aim: For children to understand how steel cans are made and recycled, and know how these processes affect the environment.

Using this acquired knowledge the children promote local environmental change.

Age Group: Key Stage 2. Each activity can be differentiated by outcome

Curriculum Links:
Literacy Strategy - sequencing ideas, communicating by letter and poster.
Numeracy Strategy - collecting and handling data.
QCA Science - Units involving materials and their properties.
PSHE and Citizenship - playing their part as active citizens

LESSON 1
A puzzle in which children sequence ideas in a simple branching programme to understand how food cans are made and recycled.

LESSON 2
Solving a puzzle to understand some of the procedures and processes used in recycling cans. Using acquired information on the environmental benefits of recycling to design a poster to encourage more people to recycle.

LESSON 3
To sort and process data on the recycling habits of families of the children at the school. Then, devise a strategy for both improving recycling performance and monitoring that improvement.