Lesson+6

=Lesson Six - Drawing Conclusions (Making Recycling Paper)=

**Learning Focus: ** Students are developing an increase awareness of forest products and uses. They are understand more deeply ways in which recycling is used and specifically how we recycle certain objects. Students are d iscovering how important it is to recycle and how easy it is to make recycled paper. **Objective: ** By the end of the lesson the students will have participated in recycling and seen how recycling can happen. Students will understand how recycling works and that different items are recycled differently. At the end of the lesson students will have made recycled paper from scrap paper/newspapers.

**Questions:**

 * What can we now say about recycling?**
 * Have you changed your thinking about recycling?**
 * What general conclusion can we make about recycling?**


 * Lesson Duration 50 - 60 minutes**
 * **__Time __**

9.00

9.10

9.30

9.50 || **__Learner activities __**


 * Students sit on floor ready for instructions, they will discuss what they already know about recycling and then watch the video about how to make recycled paper.
 * Students will collect scrap paper from the classroom ready to use for making recycled paper then listen to instructions
 * Students will make the paper as a whole group and will work as a team.

1. Tear the scrap paper into tiny pieces and soak them in a bucket of hot water for about 30 minutes. Put a handful of the soaked paper into the blender and mix until mush. Students to take in turns of whisking/ beat ingthe mixture until it is a creamy pulp. Add a small amount of vegetable scraps or dye for colour (or even leaves for added texture). 2. Pour the blended pulp into a measuring cup. Pour roughly 3 cm of water into the pan. Put the screen into the pan and pour one cup of the paper pulp onto the screen.
 * Instructions:**

<span style="color: #007d00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">3. Each student will s <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">pread the pulp evenly in the water with their fingers. It should feel kind of mushy. Lift the screen and let the water drain. <span style="color: #007d00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">4. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Lay the pulp-covered screen face down on a <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">cloth (tea towel) or in between some newspaper and use a rolling pin to flatten and press out excess moisture

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Lift the screen away, leaving the paper pulp on the cloth. Let <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">the pulp dry for at least 24 hours.

Have the students come sit back down on the floor todiscuss the activity.

<span style="color: #007d00; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">5.This will be collected the next day to have look at. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Once it’s dry, use the newly made paper to create greeting cards for your friends and family, or use it to write a letter to your member of parliament encouraging more recycling in your community. || **__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Teacher Activities __**

<span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 19.7pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"> · What can we now say about recycling? discuss this with the students. * <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 19.7pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;">Explain to the students that they are going to make recycled paper from all the scraps that they have been collecting.
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 19.7pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;">Show the students what recycled paper looks like and show them the brief video of how to make recycled paper
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Advise the students that you will help them with the hot water.
 * Explain that they will be working as a team so remember to be helpful to others and respect everones feelings.

<span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 19.7pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Encourage all students to work together as a group. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 19.7pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"> * <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 19.7pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Assist with lifting the screen off and draning the water. Offer students guidence and encouragement


 * Take photos of students working together and making the paper.


 * Tell the students to pack up and sit on the floor


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Tell the students that they will keep the recycled paper and use it during their next art lesson. || **__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Resources __**

<span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Paper, hot water, vegetable <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">scraps or coloured dye. * <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">recycling paper video

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">A blender or wire whisk, a <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">bucket, a big square pan  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">that’s at least 8 cm deep,  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">a piece of window screen  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">that fits inside the pan, an iron or rolling pin, a measuring cup, tea towels  ||