SCN 494 PROJECT LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE Your Name: Bailey Polcher Title of Lesson: What happens to our

recycled items Grade: 6-8 STANDARDS

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.2 Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; provide an accurate summary of the text distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. CSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.8 Distinguish among facts, reasoned judgment based on research findings, and speculation in a text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.9 Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.
LESSON SUMMARY/OVERVIEW

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to reflect on what they have learned about the cycle of recycling and write a detailed hypothesis about what they think happens to particular recycled items. The lesson offers time for student-to-student interaction and individual cogitation. The lesson starts out with the question being stated, goes into a time of response with the students, and ends with the independent assignment.
OBJECTIVES

-Students will be able to explain what happens to recycling.

-Students recognize the names and components of different waste materials. -Students learn to sort and name a variety of waste materials -Students will be able to give example of different ways recycled items are used in their communities.
ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION

The teacher will assess the students by having the students participate in the activity and answering correctly of where each item should be placed or sorted. The teacher can have the students write a short summary at the end of the activity stating what they have learned by doing the lesson using the correct terms and comparing and contrasting what they have learned from the teacher PowerPoint and the hands on activity.
PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE

Students must have an understanding and a good foundation of background knowledge of what recycling is. They also need to know the different types of recycling options and have an idea that there is a cycle that recycling must go through.
MATERIALS

-White board, Dry-Erase marker -Projector -Computer -PowerPoint Optional Materials needed-Paper -Markers, Crayons, Colored pencils -Classroom containers for rubbish, recycling and a paper reuse box -Compost bucket optional depending if the school has a composting system -Items of waste small plastic bottle, large glass jar, piece of paper, aluminum can. Note: ---If you dont have access to these items you can draw them on the board instead.

VOCABULARY/KEY WORDS

-Waste: unwanted materials -Rubbish: waste material; refuse or litter -Recycle: a process to change materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials -Reuse: is to use an item again after it has been used. -Compost: organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer and soil amendment. -Aluminum: It is a silvery white, soft, ductile metal. -Steel: is an alloy of iron and a small amount of carbon. -Glass: an amorphous solid material that exhibits a glass transition, which is the reversible transition in amorphous materials from a hard and relatively brittle state into a molten or rubber-like state. -Plastic: material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids that are moldable.
TEACHING PROCEDURES

1.The teacher should start the class with a quick review that is about 5 minutes long of what recycling is. 2.The teacher will play a YouTube clip that grabs the students attention and begins the thinking process of this particular lesson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kVkfBHAWM4 3. Next the teacher will lead into a 15 minute brainstorming activity that gets the students thinking about what they "think" is recycled in there community and how that specific item got to its new location. For example a child might provide the answer "a bench in the park." The class will take that answer and predict the lifeline prior to it being a bench in the park. 4.At the end of the brainstorming activity the teacher will present a PowerPoint that gives the students more informative information about the cycle of recycling. It will explain the items that can be recycled, once you use it where it goes from there and the possibilities of what its next life will be and compare it to if it had not been recycled. 5.At the end of the lesson the students will review with a hands on activity prepared by the teacher. They can either sort real life items into correctly labeled boxes or draw the items into the correctly labeled boxes that are drawn on the white board. The boxes should be labeled with however the teacher chooses to assess them. An example would be one box labeled "recycle" and the other box labeled "rubbish" and the students would have to separate the given items into the appropriate boxes. The student might have the item paper and they will have to decide which box is most appropriate for their item. 6. After separating the specific pieces of used materials the student will choose one of the provide items by the teacher and they will have to write three paragraphs on a separate sheet of paper explaining if their item falls into the recycle category or not, where it will go once it is placed into the recycle or trash bin and the possibility of what that recycled/trash item can be used for or where it will sit once it leaves their hands.
RESOURCES

Merriam-Webster. (2013). Plastic. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plastic Merriam-Webster. (2013). Waste. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waste Merriam-Webster. (2013). Rubbish. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubbish Merriam-Webster. (2013). Recycle. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recycle Merriam-Webster. (2013). Reuse. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reuse Merriam-Webster. (2013). Compost. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compost Merriam-Webster. (2013). Aluminum. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aluminium Merriam-Webster. (2013). Steel. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steel Merriam-Webster. (2013). Glass. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glass YouTube (2013). "Keep America Beautiful - Recycling Campaign - Journey - 60l". Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kVkfBHAWM4

WAYS OF THINKING CONNECTION I think it uses future thinking because the students are asked to think about what will happen after they recycled item or trash leaves their hands. Will it be recycled into something that can be reused or will it sit and pollute our world. I also think it uses value think because when the students are writing their 3 paragraphs they will think of what they value and if they believe the item should be recycled or if they think doesnt really matter they will write about throwing it into the trash. The lesson also includes strategic thinking because the students have to think by steps. So if they take this step this will or if they this step this might happen. So they have to think before they do.