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This activity is linked to the National Profiles, Level 1, Studies of Society and the Environment.

This project follows on from, Keep it Clean and gives students strategies they can use at home to minimise pollution.

Materials:

Cardboard for a poster
Colouring-in materials
A plastic bag or two
Materials from local Council about local initiatives to reduce waste

Discuss the journey of a plastic bag from the shop to a billabong.

  • Shop
  • Home
  • Lunch box
  • Playground
  • Drain
  • Waterways
  • Billabong
  • Bunyip’s tummy

As a class, design a set of posters that illustrate this journey. Brainstorm with class alternatives to plastic bags. Talk about reusing and recycling.

Have class design a set of posters showing alternatives to plastic bags.

National Profiles, Level 1, SOSE

Natural and Social Systems

A student

  • Identifies some part of natural systems eg, sorts part of an environment into living and non-living
  • Identifies places that are important to self and others
  • Cares for places by taking part in simple projects

 

 

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