Kindergarten

SWA Classroom Presentation Post Lesson Plan

Objectives: 1) Students will retell specific details of a story. 2) Students will identify the following story elements: setting, plot, characters, problem and solution. 3.) 3) Students will predict what a story is about based on the title and illustration of the front cover of the Earth Patrol coloring book. 4.) Sunshine State Standards: Language Arts: Listening, Viewing and Speaking Standard 1: Benchmark 4: Retells specific details of information heard, including sequence of events. Literature Standard 1: Benchmark 2: Identifies the story elements of setting, plot, character, problem and resolution. Materials: Earth Patrol coloring book for each student (SWA presenter will bring the coloring books on the day of the presentation) I Recycle Right certificate for each student Earth Patrol sequence activity sheet for each student Sunny Sam activity sheet for each student Sunny Sam activity answer sheet Time: 30 minutes Evaluation: Assess students understanding of the material presented by questioning them throughout the lesson. Check students answers on the sequencing activity sheet. Homework: Ask the students to complete the Sunny Sam activity sheet.

Background for Teachers: Recycling is environmentally beneficial because it helps to save natural resources, conserve energy and reduces the amount of garbage entering the landfill. Recycling is not mandatory; however, many communities have incorporated recycling into their basic service along with garbage pickup. If some of your students live in a community that does not have recycling or if they are missing a bin, encourage them to tell their parents to call the Solid Waste Authority at 697-2700 for more information. Procedure: 1. Review the importance of recycling. 2. Show the front cover of the Earth Patrol coloring book and ask the students to tell you what they think the story will be about. 3. Read the story in the Earth Patrol coloring book to the class. 4. Ask the students the following: What is the story about? Who are the people in the story? Where does the story take place? What is the problem in the story? What is the answer to the problem? 5. Distribute the Earth Patrol sequencing activity sheet and explain the directions. Allow students ample time to complete the activity. 6. Review the activity sheet. 7. Distribute the Earth Patrol coloring books to students and explain that they can work on it at home when they have time. 8. Remind the students to tell their parents, relatives and friends about the importance of recycling. 9. Distribute the I Recycle certificates. 10. Distribute the Sunny Sam activity sheet and assign as the homework.

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This container was made with 50% post-consumer plastic. THANK YOU FOR DOING YOUR PART!

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Recycling Saves Resources and Energy.

I Recycle Right
Name

Recycling Helps the Earth.

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Date

SWA
SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY

Printed on recycled paper.

Earth Patrol Sequencing Activity

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fter cleaning-up everyone agreed it had been a wonderful day, but the most important thing was that the children had learned about recycling.

Directions: Color the pictures, then cut them out. Arrange on your desk in order as it happened in the story.

unny Sam was busy setting up The Recycling Toss contest. Whats all this garbage for?, asked Michael. Its not really garbage. Most of these things can be recycled, if they are put in the right bin. said Sunny Sam. Michael and I just learned about recycling. Can we play the game? asked Mindy. Sure. said Sunny Sam.

ere is the soda! Hey look it has a triangle on it and it says recycle. What does that mean? asked Mindy.

Help Sunny Sam and his Earth Patrol protect our environment:

Recycle!

Sunny Sam Activity Sheet

Name: _________________________________ Date: ___________________

SWA
SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY

Find the path to the recycling center.

Recycling Bin

Recycling Center
Find ten things that can be recycled and circle them. Then color the picture.

Printed on recycled paper

Kindergarten
SWA Classroom Presentation Pre Lesson Plan
Objectives: 1.) Students will gain an understanding of how recycling reduces the amount of garbage that has to be thrown away. 2.) Students will understand that the amount of garbage they throw away has a direct effect on animals and plants. Sunshine State Standards: Science: How Living Things Interact with the Environment: Standard 2: Benchmark 2: Knows that the activities of humans affect plants and animals in many ways. Language Arts: Listening, Viewing, and Speaking Standard 1: Benchmark 1: Listens for a variety of informational purposes. Materials: Illustration of Transfer Station Soda can or any other product with a recycle symbol. Pictures of recyclables Garbage (place the following in a garbage bag: aluminum can, brown paper bag, paper towel, plastic containers, a glass jar, newspaper, empty tissue box, juice box, empty cereal box, milk carton, magazine) Recycling Symbol activity sheet for each student Time: 30 minutes Evaluation: Assess students understanding of the material presented by questioning them throughout the lesson. Homework: Distribute the Recycle Symbol Activity sheet and ask the students to color the recycling symbol and trace the word recycle.

Background for Teachers: The garbage from your home, apartment or townhome is collected by garbage trucks and taken to one of five transfer stations located throughout Palm Beach County. At the transfer station, garbage is transferred onto large semitrailer trucks. The large trucks can hold 4 truck loads of the smaller ones. This procedure allows the smaller trucks more time on their route, it reduces traffic on the highway and saves fuel. After the garbage is loaded into the larger trucks, it is driven to the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach Countys Waste-to-Energy facility in West Palm Beach. The lightweight garbage is shredded and burned so that it can be used as a fuel source to generate electricity. The ashes leftover from the burning process are placed in a sanitary landfill along with any unburned garbage. (Sometimes people say that garbage goes into a dump; however, dumps are no longer used because they were not environmentally-friendly. State and federal regulations require landfills to have many environmental protective systems installed and maintained. In addition, the landfill is monitored on a regular basis.) The landfill is filling up rapidly because so many people throw away a lot of garbage. One way to stop the landfill from filling up is to recycle as much of the garbage as possible. Right now in Palm Beach County, the following items are recyclable at home:
Place in the recycling bin for containers (blue): aluminum cans aluminum foil aluminum trays glass bottles & jars milk cartons juice cartons drink boxes all plastic containers Place in the recycling bin for paper (yellow): newspapers magazines catalogs phone books brown paper bags corrugated cardboard

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1. Elicit responses from students as to what happens to garbage after the garbage truck comes to collect it at their houses. 2. Briefly explain how garbage is processed (refer to the Background section and use the illustration of the Transfer Station). 3. Stress the fact that landfills are filling up quickly and that means more land will be used for this purpose instead of providing homes to animals, people and plants. Emphasize that we can reduce the amount of garbage we throw away by recycling. 4. Draw the recycling symbol on the chalkboard and write the word Recycle and explain what recycling means. Show a recycle symbol on a product.

5. Tell the students that we can recycle many things. Show pictures of the recyclables (use enclosed pictures) accepted in Palm Beach Countys recycling program. 6. Write on the board Garbage and Recycle. 7. Explain to students that you brought your garbage to class and you want them to be detectives and look at your garbage and tell you what should be recycled. 8. Spill your garbage onto the floor. (Use the staged garbage listed in the Materials section of the lesson plan.) 9. First ask the students to identify things that can be recycled. As the students name the items, place the recyclables in a separate pile away from the garbage. Place all the garbage items in the garbage container. 10. After they finish helping you sort the garbage, ask the students to count the number of items that are garbage. Write the number on the board under the heading Garbage. 11. Ask them to count the number of items that can be recycled. List the number on the board under the heading Recycle. 12. Tell the students that by recycling, we reduce the amount of garbage that is thrown away. Use the numbers on the board to form a subtraction problem in order to demonstrate the actual number of items that were taken out of the garbage. 13. Show them the garbage items in the can. Stress to the students that there wasnt much left after all the things that were recycled were removed. 14. Ask the students why recycling is important. Ask them what would happen if people kept throwing away garbage instead of recycling it. 15. Emphasize that recycling is one way to help animals, plants and people by stopping the landfill from filling up quickly. 16. Distribute the Recycle Symbol activity sheet to the students and assign as homework.

PICTURES OF RECYCLABLES

aluminum foil

plastic soda bottle

juice carton

plastic bottle

PICTURES OF RECYCLABLES

G O L G A O T L A CA CAT

catalog

corrugated cardboard box

brown paper bag

Newspaper

PICTURES OF RECYCLABLES

E ON H P LEOOK E T B

E ON H P LEOOK E T B

e n i z a g a M

telephone books

magazine

aluminum can

plastic jug

PICTURES OF RECYCLABLES

glass jar

plastic bottle

aluminum foil tray

milk carton

PICTURES OF RECYCLABLES

brown glass bottle green glass bottle

drink box

clear glass bottle

SWA
SOLID WASTE AUTHORITY

Color the recycling symbol. Then trace the letters in the word Recycle.

Recycle