Learning Goals
Students will be able to sort common school and lunch waste into recycling, compost, and trash using local sorting rules.
Students will be able to observe and record waste items with pictures, drawings, and writing to document what they found in the schoolyard and classroom.
Students will be able to organize simple classroom waste data into tables or charts to reveal patterns in what gets thrown away.
Students will be able to explain how trash can travel through land and water systems to storm drains and the ocean.
Students will be able to obtain and combine information from community partners and classroom sources about ways to protect Earth’s resources from waste.
Students will be able to create reused art and community-action posters that communicate sorting choices and ocean-protection ideas.
Students will be able to evaluate their own and others’ sorting choices and revise ideas after feedback or new evidence.
Products
Trash Detective Investigation Notebook
A student research notebook documenting the trash hunt question, sorting decisions, picture observations, simple data charts, and personal conclusions. It shows how the student used evidence to explain where waste belongs and how trash can reach the ocean.
Trash to Treasure Community Action Presentation and Display
A small-group presentation and display that combines reused art, a sorting demonstration, and a community-action poster. Teams explain their shared findings, methodology, patterns in the data, and how their actions can keep waste out of the ocean.
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