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Waste In Our Schools
Lisa Peña 27Q106 Lighthouse Elementary School
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Introduction
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Principal Johnson wants to create a Lighthouse Green Team. Our school generates a lot of waste between breakfast, lunch, books, garbage, and papers. Your student-led initiative will be focused on making our school more sustainable. Your goal is to raise awareness and advocate for change. |
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Task
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Thank you for joining our Green Team. Let’s help reduce waste in our school. In this webquest you will 1. Watch videos 2. Read articles 3. Complete a waste worksheet 4. Create a poster with a message to reduce waste in our school. This webquest will take a week to complete. |
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Procedures / Steps
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Procedures / Steps
You will use the work independently and answer the questions on the Waste Worksheet Waste Worksheet
Day 1 - Define the Problem You will read about waste in schools. Read the subheading - Inadequate Recycling Programs and answer questions 1 & 2 on the waste worksheet
Why Waste Management Is A Problem At School
Day 2 - Gather the Evidence
Read the first paragraph of the article Public School Reliance on Plastic Harms Student’s Health and the Environment and answer questions 3 & 4 on the waste worksheet
Public School Reliance on Plastic Harms Student’s Health and the Environment - Earth Day
Day 3 - Identify the Causes Why do we have waste in our school? Let’s look at the possible causes
Read the following articles and answer question 5 on the waste worksheet
https://chej.org/wp-content/uploads/Waste.pdf.pdf
Day 4 - Evaluate an Existing Policy
Look at the waste collection schedule for NYCDOE schools
Guide to Clean & Green School Guide NYC Guide to Clean & Green Schools | DSNY https://dsny.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/reports/nyc-guide-clean-green-schools.pdf
Answer questions 6 & 7 on the waste worksheet
Day 5/6 - Develop Solutions Watch the two videos below. Then you will work on creating a poster. It needs to include a clear message about reducing waste and becoming a sustainable school, 3 pictures or drawings on ways to reduce waste in our school. It should be colorful and there should be no misspellings.
Recycling for Kids | Learn how to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Wipe Out Waste school program - Behind the News
If you have extra time watch the following video This School Is Made Of Trash - Answer the BONUS question on the waste worksheet - What is your opinion of using the trash to create a school? |
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Evaluate |
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Conclusion |
Congratulations to all members of the Green Team for helping our school!!! In this webquest you learned different ways to create a sustainable school. Now you need to share the information that you learned with your family and our school community. |
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Standards |
4R1: Locate and refer to relevant details and evidence when explaining what a text says explicitly/implicitly and make logical inferences
4R3: In informational texts, explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts, including what happened and why, based on specific evidence from the text.
4R5: In informational texts, identify the overall structure using terms such as sequence, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution.
4W1: Write an argument to support claim, using clear reasons and relevant evidence |
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