Recycling (maintaining our world): Level One
Learning Center:
Cover a bulletin board with brown paper, either from a roll or from cut up brown paper bags. Place the words “I DON’T WASTE. I CARE FOR MY SPACES” at the top of the bulletin board. Mount nine drawings, photographs and/or magazine cut outs on construction paper and arrange them under the heading. Attach two envelopes to the bulletin board with the appropriate label and direction (Put an x on the wasteful picture/Put an o on the conserving picture). Fill the proper envelopes with x’s and o’s. Provide tacks or use velcro to stick the x’s and o’s on the pictures. Discuss each picture after the children have made their decisions. Change the pictures daily or after each use of the center.
Books:
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Jonas, Ann.
The Trek
. New York: Greenwillow Books, l985.
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Rockwell, Ann.
Our Garage Sale
. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1984.
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Rockwell, Ann and Harlow.
My Back Yard
. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984.
videotapes:
Turn off Pollution
. 11min., color, Encyclopedia Brittannica Educational Corporation.
Objectives:
To identify personal space and shared space/ environment. To identify who takes care of personal and shared space. To list what needs to be done to care for space/environment.
Concepts:
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*Your environment is the space around you. and all living and non-living things in that space .
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*You are responsible for the care of your environment.
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*People share large environments.
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*Shared environments must be cared for by everyone in that environment.
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*Our future environment depends on the care and use of our prevent environment.
Vocabulary:
space/ environment/ personal space/ shared space
Materials:
various scenes showing space (at least 36)
construction paper/ brown paper/ envelopes/ tacks/velcro
large cut outs of letters x and o (9 each) yarn/rope/ ditto A (below)
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Motivation:
Ask: Where is your favorite place? Make a short list of favorite places on the chalkboard. Ask: Why do you like this place? Introduce the word environment as the space around you an all of the things living and non-living found in that space. Explain to the children that they will learn about different environments and how to take care of them.
Lesson:
Have the children to look around their desks and their classroom. Ask: Who shares this space? Who should take care of it? Place a circle of yarn around a child’s desk. Ask the children to list everything that is in the circled area. Place another circle of yarn around the desk next to the first child’s. Compile a list everything in the second space and list everything shared by both spaces (circles). give each child a circle of string and instruct them on it’s placement. Have each child draw the things found in their space on ditto A. Ask the children to share their drawings. Discuss who is responsible for caring for the objects in circle and in the overlapping areas.
Subject Integration:
Mathematics:
sets
Social Studies:
responsibility cooperation
Who Takes Care of Your Space?
Name ____ Date ____
Draw what is in your space.
Draw what is in the space you share.
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