Science

PS.2.2.1 Carry out investigations to illustrate how sound is produced by vibrating objects and columns of air.

Social Studies

2.G.2 Understand the effects of humans interacting with their environment.

2.G.2.2 Explain how people positively and negatively affect the environment.

Reading

RL.2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Writing

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.1

Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.

Global Goal 12.5

SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCE WASTE GENERATION

By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

Students will produce 2 products:

1. Students will create their own recycled instruments.

2. Students will create an infographic/poster about recycling and where their recyclables are going towards and create a box to collect recyclables at every school.

Culminating Event:

• Select students will present to the school board or a principal's meeting and read their plan of action and letter to promote recycling at all schools within the district. 

• For our end result, we would like permission to hang up an infographic that students have created in every teacher lounge with a box to collect certain recyclables. These recyclables will then be repurposed in that school's STEM lab for future STEM activities.