Unit+Overview

=Unit Overview = This is the introductory lesson where the teacher will introduce the topic 'recycling' to the class and find out their prior knowledgue through the use of questions and brainstorming. An activity where students have to distinguish between recycled and non recycled objects will be another key factor to help the teacher gain students understanding of the topic. The students will use the materials that they bought from home during their maths lessons this week as counters. They will also use them in art when creating 'real life things' eg making a car out of egg carton and bottle tops. || This lesson allows the teacher to gain an understanding of students prior knowledge by recapping on the last lesson and informs students of what the recycling program consists of and how they, as a class, are going to impliment the program into their school. || During this lesson the students will look at the 'School Recycling Program' and put together a presentation to show the whole school at assembly. The recycling bins consisting of blue, red and yellow will be implimented into each classroom and the class will explain how they work and what the school needs to do to help with the recycling program and why it is important. || This lesson allows the students to see for themselves what a recycling plant is and what it does. Here the students will be able to ask questions about recycling to a person who has a lot of experience in the industry and will give them hands on experiences which will help the students relate to the topic. After the excursion the students will create a piece of writing about the excursion. || During this lesson the students develop an understanding of how and why it is important to recycle and save water both at school and at home. The students will impliment a water saving/recycling technique into their classroom and become aware of how much water is wasted when washing hands, brushing teeth and bathing. the students will learn to realise how much water is wasted everyday and hopefully become consious of this in the future. || This lessons allows the students to experiment with recycling paper and the process of making new paper. The students will see that by collecting lots of little scraps of paper (that they would have normally thrown away) and going through the recycling process they can now create something 'new' out of something that was next to nothing. The students will understand that by doing this they are saving trees and helping to save their environment. || This lesson will allows the students to show the wider community what the students have been doing with the recycling program at the school and will offer advise and ways of implimenting these ideas into peoples homes. The students will pick one of the many photos taken during the program that they can relate to most and will write about this picture, this will then be made into a school newsletter and given to each family. || This lesson consists of wrapping up the unit and recapping on what has been taught and learnt during the last 8 lessons. This lesson is a great way to show the teacher how much the students have taken in and also gives the children and opportunity to see what they have created and participated in by watching the powerpoint presentation which was created by the teacher. ||
 * **Lesson 1 - Tuning In (Introduction to Recycling)**
 * **Lesson 2 - Deciding Directions (School Recycling Program)**
 * **Lesson 3 - Organising Ourselves (Impliment Program into the School)**
 * **Lesson 4 - Finding Out (Excursion to Recycling Plant)**
 * **Lesson 5 - Sorting Out (Recycling Water)**
 * **Lesson 6 - Drawing Conclusions (Making Recycled Paper)**
 * **Lesson 7 - Considering Social Action (Recycling Program and the Community)**
 * **Lesson 8 - Reflection and Evaluation (Recycling Powerpoint Presentation)**