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Assembly idea: Sustainable lifestyles - reducing waste
Aims:
To encourage children to think about their own lifestyle in our
consumer society, and to reflect on how we can live in a more sustainable
and less wasteful way.
What to do:
Take a selection of ordinary household 'rubbish' (suitably washed!)
into assembly. Go through each item, for example, unwanted shirt,
apple core, plastic bag, junk mail, empty tin, plastic yoghurt pot.
Have a number of headings on view such as 'Recycle', 'Reuse', 'Refuse'
(in future), 'Compost', 'Give to charity/jumble sale'. Hold each
item up and ask the pupils what could be done with it. If 'reuse'
is suggested, ask pupils to say what new life the item might have.
(You could mention the 'Slim your bin' initiative from 'Going for
Green', where one family reduced their household waste by 90 per
cent in a week.)
Other ideas include:
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historical investigation - What rubbish would have been recognised
by people 100 years ago?
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looking at examples of packaging - What is necessary and unnecessary?
What is environmentally sound and unsound? What can we do about
it?
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comparing relative amounts and types of rubbish from households
here and in other countries.
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