Conserve: Recycle

STEM class students will learn how to recycle at a school level. Students will also learn the importance of recycling as stewards of the Earth. While there are not state specific standards to address the lessons learned, they do connect to our school's core practices and learning design principles.

Students will collect, sort and recycle items from all over the school on a weekly basis. Students will have regularly scheduled pick up locations and be solely responsible for those locations. Keeping specific locations helps the students take ownership and responsibility for that teacher and group of students. Through this ownership, the student can help lead the smaller group in terms of what can and cannot be recycled.

Students will create posters and sings to be placed around the school describing what can and cannot be recycled. Students will also post other signs around the school encouraging fellow classmates to keep our campus tidy and reduce litter. They will also create posters in different languages to keep with our international theme. This year we plan to invite Janice Allen to come speak with classes about the dirty dozen. Based on this experience, we plan to have our student create literature to share with parents about what can and cannot be recycled through home collection.