Organising a Beach Clean and Beach Clean Survey Template
Added: 21 Dec 2016
Contributor:
Clare Quigley
Resource type:
Lesson Plan
The aim of this lesson is for children to conduct a beach clean to show the benefits of caring for their local environment and ocean, as well as becoming environmentally aware and active. The children will develop a sense of place and space learning about their local seashore. The lesson and survey could easily be adapted to suit a clean up or litter pick in your local community.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- SESE Geography
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Caring for the environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- come to appreciate individual, community and national responsibility for environmental care
- examine a number of ways in which local and other environments could be improved or enhanced
- identify and discuss a local, national or global environmental issue
Suggestions for use: This lesson plan focuses on a beach clean up but could easily be adapted for a litter pick in any type of community. It also links with the maths curriculum through the collection of data which could be used to compile charts and graphs.
- 5-6
- SESE Science
Strand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Caring for the environment
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- come to appreciate individual, community and national responsibility for environmental care
- identify and discuss a local, national or global environmental issue
- participate in activities that contribute to the enhancement of the environment
- 5-6
- Mathematics
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, single and multiple bar charts and simple pie charts
- collect, organise and represent data using pie charts and trend graphs
- compile and use simple data sets
- read and interpret pictograms, single and multiple bar charts, and pie charts
