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Key stage 1 &Younger years
- Recycling Song – learn about recycling, wash, squash, scrunch and save to help benefit the earth. Improve vocabulary and actions can be added to improve co-ordination skills
- Recycle at Home – start to learn about recycling with this simple cut and paste co-ordination activity. Start to notice different colour bins and what they might mean
- ANSWERS – just in case
- Bathroom Recycling and Kitchen Recycling – investigation skills and drawing skills the items that can be recycled from your home
- Dustcart Challenge – basic problem solving and think about the types of things that go in the recycling bin
- Word Searches – improve vocabulary and searching skills. We have also linked the items to where they should go to be disposed of
- Recycling Hero Challenge – imagination development, motor-skills development and learn how to help reduce recycling contamination and littering issues
- Answers – Just in case
- Can and Can’t Be Recycled and Which Bin Do These Go In – investigation and co-ordination skills development
- Time to Waste – decomposition activity designed to help show how long common items take to break down. Motor-skill development, social and vocabulary skills encourage discussion when participating in this activity
- Justin’s Recycling Adventure – basic storyboard, drawing and developing recycling knowledge and imagination
- Word Searches – improve vocabulary and searching skills. We have also linked the items to where they should go to be disposed of
- Answers – just in case
- Recycling Mistakes – investigation skills, problem solving skills and art skills development
- Recycling Crossword – increase vocabulary, problem solving and learn more about environmental issues
- Waste Hierarchy – problem solving, discussion skills development
- Time to Waste – decomposition activity designed to help show how long common items take to break down. Motor skill development, social and vocabulary skills encourage discussion when participating in this activity
- Answers – just in case
- A Test of Strength – team building and problem-solving skills. Material composition and basic construction understanding
- Dive Machine – team building and problem-solving skills, buoyancy experiment. Plastic pollution facts
- The Flying Machine – team building and problem-solving skills, facts about common recyclable items to provoke discussion
- The Musical Instrument – team building and problem-solving skills, facts about common recyclable items to provoke discussion and maths skill
- What Goes Where Game – can be done individually or as groups. Look at the differences between individuals/groups and see how it can be confusing to recycle. Problem solving & motor skills
- Answers – Just in case
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