This lesson teaches students about recycling and waste leakage by having them create a "Waste Hero" story. Students will review recycling best practices, discuss waste statistics, and use storyboarding tools to develop a message to inspire others to reduce waste. They will create a story with a main character who is their "Waste Hero" and includes a call to action on how to recycle properly and reduce environmental impacts.
This lesson teaches students about recycling and waste leakage by having them create a "Waste Hero" story. Students will review recycling best practices, discuss waste statistics, and use storyboarding tools to develop a message to inspire others to reduce waste. They will create a story with a main character who is their "Waste Hero" and includes a call to action on how to recycle properly and reduce environmental impacts.
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This lesson teaches students about recycling and waste leakage by having them create a "Waste Hero" story. Students will review recycling best practices, discuss waste statistics, and use storyboarding tools to develop a message to inspire others to reduce waste. They will create a story with a main character who is their "Waste Hero" and includes a call to action on how to recycle properly and reduce environmental impacts.
This lesson teaches students about recycling and waste leakage by having them create a "Waste Hero" story. Students will review recycling best practices, discuss waste statistics, and use storyboarding tools to develop a message to inspire others to reduce waste. They will create a story with a main character who is their "Waste Hero" and includes a call to action on how to recycle properly and reduce environmental impacts.
Students will review and refresh their knowledge of recycling and the negative effects on the environment without recycling best practices. They will also be introduced to the concept of “waste leakage” as a result of not recycling and mismanagement of recyclables. They will work in small groups or individually to create a “Waste Hero” story with a message to inform, inspire, and encourage others to take action against waste in our environment. Students will move through a series of exercises to help them think through and develop the core message of their story to help inspire others to take action.
1 Display the lesson slides for the class and create a discussion about what they already know about recycling and introduce the concept or waste leakage and ocean bound waste. Ask students the guiding questions in the PowerPoint slide notes.
2 Print out the “YES/NO” handout, the “Storyboard“, and the “Story Planner” handout. Gather all kinds of art supplies and poster boards (1 per group or per student)
• Science - Earth and Human Activity: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment. Things that people do can affect the world around them. But they can make choices that reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things. • English Language Arts and Literacy: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about topics and texts. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions. Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
SDG Alignment Flexible and adaptive lesson Lesson plans are designed to be flexible and responsive to the evolving needs of your classroom. Lessons are editable and customizable to meet the different individual student and classroom contexts. A PowerPoint version with teacher instructions and a printable PDF lesson are available for download. 3 The Lesson Lesson duration: 25 - 30 minutes
1 Introduce the lesson to your students by asking about their knowledge of what can and cannot be recycled. Display the “YES/NO” slide or print the handout as a reference. • Create an open discussion about the basics of recycling. • Do you recycle? • What can be recycled? • What cannot be recycled? • Ask for them to give a few examples of each.
2 Students will create a Waste Hero story to inspire and influence others to take action against waste in the environment. Students will take notes of recycling best practices, waste statistics and facts to support the main message of their story. Use the story design slides and the Story Planner and Storyboard handouts to help them create their story.
3 Print out the “Story Planner” and the “Storyboard” handouts for the students to fill out in class. Students will likely need 4 or more storyboard handouts to create their story. They can work in a group or individually and you can also extend the lesson by having them write out their story from their storyboard and share it with the class.
4 Prepare the PowerPoint presentation
When you are ready to present the lessons to your class click on Slide Show on the top menu bar then select Presenter View. In Presenter view, you can see your notes as you present while the audience see only your slides.
The notes appear in a pane on the right. The text should
wrap automatically, and a vertical scroll bar appears if necessary. You can also change the size of the text in the Notes pane by using the two buttons at the lower left corner of the Notes pane. 6
Glass jar PET Plastic bottle Shoes Metal can Light bulb Juice box Dirty napkin
Plastic bag Toys
Pencil Banana peel Cardboard box Garden hose
YES NO 7
YES NO Always recycle: Never recycle:
Banana peel Dirty napkin Garden hose
Glass jar PET Plastic bottle
Light bulb Juice box Shoes
Cardboard box Metal can Toys Plastic bag Pencil
Create A “Waste Hero” Story Create a story based on your Waste Hero and a “call to action” to inspire and inform others to reduce waste in the environment and to save the world.
Your story should:
• Inform others about what can be recycled
in your area • Inspire your audience to recycle more and how to do it better • Create a storyboard that can be made into a written story or film • Your main character should be your “Waste Hero”
8 How do we prevent waste leakage into our environment?
Practice The 3 Steps to Recycling
1 Know what you can recycle 2 Empty, clean, and dry before 3 Put recyclables into the putting in the bin. correct recycling bin.
9 What is your Waste Hero’s Message to Inform and Inspire?
Recycling Best Practices & Tips Keep your Separate recyclables dry – combined materials less than a teaspoon of liquid
If you can poke
If your recycling Never recycle your finger container smells, it anything smaller through it, is contaminated than an ID card do not recycle it
10 Ocean Waste
11 How much ocean waste is mistakenly eaten by ocean animals?
Nearly half of the world's turtles have eaten plastic
waste. 12 Recycling Tips we can share to inspire others to recycle.
Find the #1PET on the bottom of plastic
Recycle items into the correct recycling bin bottles and recycle it. PET plastic bottles are where you see the recycling symbol. fully recyclable.
13 Recycling Tips we can share to inspire others to recycle.
Do not put food in the recycling bin. Use less single use materials like plastic Wet and dirty recycling items cannot be bags and plastic straws we only use one collected. time.
14 More facts for inspiration
1 It takes nearly 450 years for a plastic bottle to decompose in a
landfill.
2 It takes glass about 4,000 years to decompose in a landfill.
There is a huge “garbage island” floating in the ocean 2x the size
3 of the state of Texas.
Human generated waste has been found in the deepest part of
4 the ocean, and at the tallest mountain peak in the world.
5 PET Plastic is the most recycled plastic in the world.
15 What is your “Waste Hero’s” message to inspire?
16 How to design your story
Setting: Introduce your setting with a Title: Give your story a title. short paragraph • Make it short and catchy • Where are your characters? • What is the time? Characters: Write two sentences to • What can they see introduce your character(s). • e.g. Recycleman is from the planet Plasto 5 lightyears from earth. He can fly at the speed of light and travels to earth to help children at Dialogue: Write your character’s name schools learn about recycling plastic.
before they speak
• Indicate when your characters are Main message: speaking with parenthesis. e.g. “We • Do not try to say too much at once. • Choose one or two simple main messages should recycle more” said Mark. to encourage people to recycle. • Support your message with interesting stats and facts from this lesson.
17 Map Out Your Ideas
Trashman sneaks into schools to tell students they do not Does Recycleman need a side kick? need to recycle and to just throw all waste in the same trash bin
Twist in the story:
Possible titles: Recycleman was captured and • Recycleman and the Landfill Recycleman fights to keep the locked deep inside the stinky and of Doom world recycling and to keep the toxic landfill by Trashman • The Age of Waste environment healthy. • Trashman Attacks
Recycleman faces many challenges such as people who
Recycleman must avoid his biggest litter, their poor recycling knowledge, and Trashman who enemy Trashman wants all waste to go to his secret, scary landfill.
18 Make a List of the Key Events
1 It was a cold dark night on planet Plastico 4 Recycleman found a select group of student when Recycleman got a call from earth. activists to set up more recycling around the world’s schools.
2 Trashman has invaded local schools to tell 5 Recycleman fought Trashman at the secret, kids not to recycle. scary landfill and was captured and buried deep below the trash.
3 Recycleman had to fly to earth and wage a 6 The student activists found enough recycling battle against Trashman. to build a giant shovel to uncover and save Recycleman.
19 Write Your Story To Persuade
A relatable story Use facts to support the message
Get your audience to understand the problems of not Using facts and figures is an effective way to validate your recycling through your Waste Hero story. message. Some data points can really help illustrate the problem.
e.g., If Trashman wins the battle more waste will e.g., It takes a glass jar 4,000 years to decompose in a landfill. harm our environments we live in.
Repeat your message Use some humor
Repeating your message throughout your story is an Grab the reader’s attention with humor which can make them effective way to ensure your audience remembers. more open to your message.
e.g., Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
20 Story Planner
Title of your story: Use this story planner to help create your story Audience Key characters Who will read your story? List your main character(s) below. Write a sentence to describe your character(s). Write one thing your audience needs to know about recycling to help them recycle more and better.
Setting Main message Describe the location of where your story takes place. What is the overall message in your story to influence your audience to recycle more?
21 Create A Storyboard
Draw a picture in each box of the events in your story. Write a description under each picture.
