KESAB environmental solutions are pleased to present a new school waste and recycling education resource, ‘Let’s be waste warriors!’.
The resource includes a selection of Australian curriculum-aligned lesson ideas and accompanying activity sheets relating to the topic of waste and recycling. They are written for lower primary and primary students but can easily be modified to suit other year levels.
Using this curriculum material will assist students in achieving the following learning outcomes:
Broad learning outcomes (lower primary)
- Students will understand the importance of correct waste disposal and that waste products need to be disposed of carefully into different bins.
- Students will discover the terms reduce, reuse, recycle.
- Students will consider ways to reduce waste.
Broad learning outcomes (primary)
- Students will explore to understand the principles of waste management with a particular focus on waste management practices in their area.
- Students will discover which items go into each bin.
- Students will consider the greater impacts of correct and incorrect waste management practices.
In addition to these lesson ideas, KESAB environmental solutions offers a number of ‘hands-on’ excursion and incursion programs and options to complement students’ learning. For details, simply download KESAB’s latest Waste and Recycling Education information brochure.
Lower Primary Years Lesson Ideas and Activities
Lesson Ideas
Activity Sheets
- Thumbs up or down? (pdf, 138 kb)
- Ways to reuse it! (pdf, 94 kb)
- Bin bingo! (pdf, 105 kb)
- Which bin? (pdf, 147 kb)
- Feed the kitchen caddy! (pdf, 98 kb)
- KWL chart (pdf, 99 kb)
- Watch it waste (pdf, 101 kb)
- Packaged products (pdf, 97 kb)
- My nude food lunchbox (pdf, 287 kb)
- Waste audit (pdf, 101 kb)
- Waste words (pdf, 105 kb)
- Waste management truck talk (pdf, 114 kb)
- Larry Litter story sequence (pdf, 95 kb)
- Decorate and colour the waste management truck (pdf, 213 kb)
Primary Years Lesson Ideas and Activities
Lesson Ideas
Activity Sheets
- Where does it go? (pdf, 139 kb)
- Reduce my waste (pdf, 116 kb)
- Ways to reuse it! (pdf, 94 kb)
- Waste management KWL chart (pdf, 99 kb)
- Watch it waste (pdf, 104 kb)
- Feed the kitchen caddy! (pdf, 97 kb)
- Landfill PMI (pdf, 100 kb)
- Save packaging - buy in bulk! (pdf, 114 kb)
- Waste words (pdf, 108 kb)
- Waste warriors comic strip (pdf, 94 kb)
- My waste management truck story (pdf, 140 kb)