Comprehensive resource on recycling and waste management. Challenge your friends in a quiz and meet the Green Team. Also contains a downloadable pack for teachers.
View full descriptionStrand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Suggestions for use: Use this resource online to reinforce learning about recycling. Suitable for whole class projected on to a screen. Also suitable for self paced learning.
Resources on recycling, litter, water, energy, travel for schools around Ireland. Directly links it's work to the curriculum in 'Seven Steps'. Also provides opportunity for schools to be listed in the case study section.
View full descriptionStrand: Stewardship
Strand unit: Recycling
This is a short presentation on how to do Decoupage using old tins, jam jars, and napkins.
The finished effect is great and the tins can be used as a vase or pencil holder.
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Can be used as a pen/pencil holder or a vase.
How many animals can you make before going to the ZOO? Create a cake stand Giraffe for a fundraiser. (World Giraffe Day is 21st June every year) Create a lion party favor for their end of school year party.Create paper plate panda masks to bring out the animal inside. Create a paper monkey hat. My favorite crafty animal is the Egg Cartoon Alligator!
View full descriptionStrand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Set up stations within your class. Every station will need to first research the animal they are to create. Allow time for pupils to think of imaginative ways this can be done. Promote each group with the printed images of the animal they are to design with the required materials. (place in plastic box so easy to clean up and hand out)
Junk art ideas, how to make cars, homes, dolls, dominoes etc out of waste material
View full descriptionStrand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Demonstrate how to create the structures. Careful consideration will be needed in cutting into the plastic. Perhaps, teacher will do this part? Students could test their constructions out by racing them down ramps to see which car can travel the furthest.
Short animation to use with younger pupils to discuss the impact of littering and how littering can be sorted into categories. Visually pleasing animation to catch students attention with voice activation.
View full descriptionStrand: Environ. Awareness & Care
Strand unit: Caring for my locality
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Every day is an Earth day is a good stimulation to use with younger students in developing awareness on pollution and how we can clean up our community by sorting rubbish into categories.
If possible with ipads, students can sort the rubbish in their groups then feed back as a class group. Alternatively, use display on the board.
Why is it important to recycle and what kind of things can we recycle? These links may help answer these important questions.
Lots to explore in this interactive site. People and Places to visit and discover the various ways the inhabitants recycle, reduce and reuse waste. The site also includes print friendly versions of the suggested guidelines.
View full descriptionSuggestions for use: Discover how people recycle, reduce and reuse in Recycle City.
As a result of recycling, waste materials are recovered for use in new products . . .
The Be Free Recycling Team urges you to Go recycle. Information supplied by www.erp-recycling.ie
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