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At the end of the unit the students will be asked what they can do in their school community to help with the amount of waste. The student will be guided toward making a compost bin for their lunch room. They will build it as a class and each day for the first few weeks 2 students will be assigned to help other school children to properly separate their lunch trash.

The students can then transfer the compost to help grow a school garden.

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The students will keep a running log, with pictures and words, of what they dispose of at home each night and morning. During their science block time, they will sort the items into different categories and identify ways they can find a second use for an item.

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1.L.1 Understand characteristics of various environments and behaviors of humans that enable
plants and animals to survive.

1.L.1.3 Summarize ways that humans protect their environment and/or improve conditions for
the growth of the plants and animals that live there (e.g., reuse or recycle products to
avoid littering).

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ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth - Some events happen very quickly; others occur very slowly, over a time period much longer than one can observe (2-ESS1-1).

2-ESS1-1. Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.

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1.C&G.1 Understand how people engage with and participate in the community.

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RI.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

RI.1.5 Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text.

RI.1.9 Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic.

RI.1.10 With prompting and support, read and understand informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1 for sustained periods of time.

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The class will read What a Waste by Jess French. After, they will fill out a thinking map about what people do with products and what they can do differently to protect the planet.

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Students will be asked to add to a class Google Jamboard where they will add words and pictures of what can and cannot be recycled.

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UNCW Recycling Services- Field Trip Idea!

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UNCW Recycling Services- Field Trip Idea!

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EDUCATION & OUTREACH- Tours are available for classes, labs, clubs, the public, and any group of 3 or more people. These tours are available to the public and to the university community. During the tour, there is a 1-hour guided tour of the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) to include the Warehouse, sort floor, and Public Recycling Depot.

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UNCW Recycling offers several services to support and compliment campus operations. We will arrange for delivery, set-up, break-down, and pick-up of any equipment necessary to complete your request even if the request falls outside your normal scheduled service day.

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This guide is for teachers to build a composting bin with worms. It has troubleshooting ideas, activities that go along with worms and other bugs, and even ways to make money for your classroom with your worms. This is a great way to incorporate inquiry-based learning to the science lesson.

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This source is a guide for teachers to get inspired with different compost activities. They can be used to form different learning experiences and assessments.

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Coastal Composting Council- Guest Video Call idea!

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Coastal Composting Council- Guest Video Call idea!

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The North Carolina Composting Council (NCCC) is a volunteer-run organization dedicated to the development, expansion, and promotion of composting and compost-use in both the domestic and industry setting.

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How can we, as first graders, reduce waste at our school?

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Systems, Change , Cause and Effect, Problem, Solution

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Reuse, Recycle, Reduce, Repurpose, Soil, Water, Plants, Humans, Animals, Compost, Food, Paper, Garbage, Plastic, Pollution

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What will reducing, reusing and recycling do to help the planet?

What can people do to avoid adding litter to the planet?

What do humans do that negatively impacts humans and plants?

How can food waste be turned into fertilizer?

How can humans reduce ocean pollution?

What is the purpose of humans protecting the environment?

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What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting Our Planet
by: Jess French (Author)

This source is full of information, but it also has wonderful pictures that add to the information. It highlights how human actions affect that planet and the big impact that can be made by doing small things.

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What If Everybody Did That? by Ellen Javernick (Author), Colleen Madden (Illustrator)

This book is a great example of cause and effect about how a boy goes through his daily life without thinking about the effect of his actions. It is a book the students can relate to and a great class discussion can be sparked from it.

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This source provides an overview of how all that leftover food they sort is turned into soil for a garden. The characters take a trip to see how a place makes compost in their neighborhood.

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This source highlights exactly how to sort different items. It also highlights taking advantage of recycling and sorting waste from the landfill allows for the making of more new stuff.

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What goes where?! Trash, recycling & composting

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This is a great source made by Seattle Public Schools. It highlights why wasting food is not good and what to do with things you cannot reuse. It is filled with great explanations about why things go where. This way students can conceptualize what they are sorting rather than just memorizing what goes where.

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Recycling & Composting in Lunchrooms: What-Goes-Where

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Students will be prompted to participate in a See, Think, Wonder partner discussion based on Food Art (visual resources section). The class will come back together, and each group to share their ideas which will be added to a whole class chart.

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This is a great source to get students thinking about the amount of waste humans produce and what can be used in compost to help grow more food.

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This is a great source to get students thinking about the amount of waste humans produce and what can be used in compost to help grow more food.

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This is a great source to get students thinking about the amount of waste humans produce and what can be used in compost to help grow more food.

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This is a great source to get students thinking about the amount of waste humans produce and what can be used in compost to help grow more food.

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This source is a quiz that can be used at the start of a unit or as a formative assessment to check the students' understanding. It can be done as a class or individually on student ipads and discussed after.

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8 Billion Trees: Carbon Offset Projects & Ecological Footprint Calculators

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8 Billion Trees | Kid's Science Quiz: Garbage and Recycling Facts

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Everyone knows what trash is, but how much do you know about recycling it? Take this quiz to test your knowledge of recycling and waste.

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Max Goes to the Recycling Center by by Adria F. Klein (Author), Mernie Gallagher-Cole (Illustrator)

This is a great source to use at the start of the unit. It is an overview of what happens at a recycling center and why it is important.

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Should schools be required to have recycling cans?
Should the city be allowed to require people to pay for recycling cans?

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What can be recycled?
What can be put into a compost pile?
How much recyclable material is put into general trash piles?

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1. SWUT humans can protect their environment to help the plants and animals (including humans) that live there.

2. SWUT human management of garbage, including paper and plastic, reduces air and ocean pollution.

3. SWUT products can be reused and recycled to avoid overcrowding of landfills.

4. SWUT reducing, reusing, and recycling will help to repurpose already used materials.

5. SWUT littering causes poison to the soil and water, which negatively impacts humans and plants.