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Too Much Waste in School
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4-308 Jennifer Nobile JNobile2@schools.nyc.gov
INTRODUCTION
Mrs.
Reimer has announced there is too much waste in our school! As she walks throughout the building, she is
noticing waste in the stairs, halls, floors, and classrooms. We have to act on this to help keep our
school clean and safe for all. Are you
ready to commit and help our school?
TASK
The goal of this WebQuest is for you to have an
understanding of why school waste is a problem in our school. We signed a CARE contract at the beginning of
the school year with the promise that Children are Responsible and
Respectful, Everyday. We have to decide if we are going to keep the promise we made, and
show how we CARE! You
will work in groups to find a solution to this problem.
Your Task:
- You will
participate in classroom discussions about the problem and gather evidence
to support your findings.
- You will research
how school waste is harmful to schools, and how this impacts us.
- You will create a
PSA (Public Service Announcement) short video/presentation through use of flipgrid/powerpoint
informing our PS 100 School Community about school waste: causes, impact,
and possible solutions.
- You will also
create a poster for every classroom to hang up asking for support from our
school community to help decrease school waste.
- You
will report after your PSA and posters have been sent to the school
community if there is an improvement or the problem still exists?
PROCESS/RESOURCES
To complete this project you will need to follow the 6 Steps of the PPA
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Here is the layout
of this project and what you will be expected to do by the end of this project:
Roles
for Group/Table Work:
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Team Captain: This student will be responsible for going
over task with the group, making sure everyone is doing their part, staying
on task, and participate in all parts of project Researcher: This role can be for 2 people depending on
size of group and will be responsible for finding articles, videos, resources
connected to the problem and how to solve it. Note Taker: This student will be responsible for taking
important notes on the group chart collected from the research portion to use
when creating the PSA and Poster Artist: This student will be responsible for the
creative design of the poster presenting information to the school community-
they must use factual information from the research to include in the
classroom posters. |
Our
task will be broken up into 8 days:
Day 1-Day 2: (Define the Problem/Gather Evidence) Classroom discussion: Students
will participate in discussion about school waste and why this is a problem.
You must choose your roles today before you begin the next phase of the
project. *We will have a brainstorm session to come up with your thoughts
about school waste and why this is a problem.*
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Survey/Collect data on how much school waste you see. ○ Include location ○ Include time ○ Include items ○ Include frequency |
Day
3-Day 4: (Identify Causes/Evaluate Existing Policies) In groups you will
research how school waste is harmful to schools. Make sure to take notes and
find not only the reason why this is harmful, but what can be done to help fix
this problem. You should also research
policies in place to help with school waste.
Day 5: (Develop Public Policy Solutions) Create posters to help promote
the decrease of school waste in our building and hang up in every classroom.
● Make sure you have a title in
your poster
● Create a statement to promote
what the problem is and how we can help
● Must be colorful
● Include your class and name
Day 6-Day 7: PSA (flipgrid/powerpoint): You must work on your PSA as a group
Watch these videos on how to
1: set up your PSA How to make a PSA
2: an example of a PSA No Second Chances: A Pool Safely PSA
Your group must follow these steps for your PSA:
*Important*
If you choose flipgrid
option:
(Use your notes to come up with your statement or thoughts that
you
want to mention first so you are prepared when you begin
filming)
What should be in your
video/presentation?
- State
the problem
- Include
visuals of school waste around the building
- What
causes waste around our school?
- What
are ways we can fix this problem? (How can our school community help?)
- If
using flipgrid remember your video cannot be
more than 2 minutes long
- If
using PowerPoint you must label each of your
slides with which part you are presenting.
- Be
sure to include your resources of what you researched and why this is
important.
Day 8: (Selecting
the Best Policy Solution)
Team Captains will check in with classrooms to see if School
Waste has decreased. If there is still
school waste, what can we think of next to help fix our problem?
Resources Available to use:
Why
is it important to keep schools clean?
How do decrease waste in schools
Why should we keep our school clean?
Schools Clean Up Day - Behind the News
No Second Chances: A Pool Safely PSA
EVALUATION
CONCLUSION
Mrs.
Reimer sends her thanks for working on this project and spreading awareness for
School Waste in our school community.
You successfully used the PPA to find possible solutions to the problem. By keeping our promise to our CARE
contract we will be responsible children everyday making sure our school stays
clean! Your efforts are not unnoticed,
and together WE can make a difference!
STANDARDS
(Next Generation Learning Standards)
4SL1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative
discussions with diverse partners, expressing ideas clearly, and building on
those of others.
4SL4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or
recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details,
speaking clearly at an understandable pace and volume appropriate for the
audience.
4SL5: Include digital media and/or visual displays
in presentations to emphasize central ideas or themes.
4W6: Conduct research to answer questions,
including self-generated questions, and to build knowledge through
investigating multiple aspects of a topic.
4W7: Recall relevant information from experiences
or gather relevant information from multiple sources; take notes and categorize
information, and provide a list of sources.
4R1: Locate and refer to relevant details and
evidence when explaining what a text says explicitly/implicitly and make
logical inferences. (RI&RL)
4R8: Explain how claims in a text are supported by
relevant reasons and evidence. (RI&RL)