Lesson Plan To Recycling

LESSON PLAN FOR THE EFL CLASS.

Title: I love Recycle!

Class: Grade 5.

Timming: 60 minutes.

Resources, Materials and preparation:

A photocopy for each pupil of Worksheets 1, 2, 3, 4, some copies of Worksheet 5 (one copy contains 4 badges), colours, notebook, scissors, glue, optional: 4 construction paper posters; if possible: Interactive Whiteboard, Internet connection and computer in which the sites needed for the lesson have been previously saved in a folder.

Morning meetings:

Focus children’s attention on the problem of refuse, recycling different materials, and what they can personally do to save the environment, help children understand and practise the 3R’s of solid waste management.

Literacy development:

1. Learn Vocabulary related to the content objectives (i.e. environment, materials, paper, plastic, compost, metal, glass, trash, recycle, skin, peel, bottle, can, …).

2. Review simple present tense first person singular and plural.

3. Use nterrogative words “What,” “Why,” “How” and “Which”.

5. Construct Interrogative, afirmative and negative sentences with simple past.

Examples: “How did?” “Why did?” “What did?”

Unit development:

1. Introduce the topic showing the class objects made of different materials, write the materials on the board, asking which different bins they have at home (or at school) for refuse, and write on the board: plastic, paper, metal and glass, compost, e-waste, trash Ask the pupils examples of things they might throw in the different bins (i.e. banana skin, waste paper, plastic bottle,…) Accept L1 in the discussion.

2. Introduce the topic of the 3R’s and discuss, using also Give a copy of Worksheet 1 to each pupil, read and comment the text.

3. Give a copy of Worksheet 2 to each pupil. Elicit the colours used for the waste recycling bins (in my town the paper bin is blue, the glass one is green, the compost bin is green and for plastic we use a yellow one.). Children cut out the bins and their labels, stick each bin and its label on a different page of the notebook, colour each bin accordingly.

4. To save time, give each child a copy of Worksheet 3. If you have more time, give the children a small piece of paper and ask them to draw a different waste on each piece of paper, one kid will for example draw a glass jar, another a plastic bottle,… (other examples: banana skin, orange, peel, tea bag, plastic bag, newspaper, comics, eggshell, ticket, leaves, flowers,

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