Lesson Four – School Recycling

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to suggest and record some of the special ways of promoting the recycling of different materials in classrooms and offices around the school.

The class can practise completing a survey and using the results to compose letters containing persuasive language to encourage others to recycle different materials.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to suggest and record some of the special ways of promoting the recycling of different materials in classrooms and offices around the school

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the advantages of recycling different materials, a worksheet to collect and record information to use in a letter to promote recycling in the school and a template to format and structure a letter to promote the recycling of a range of materials in the school.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record some special ways of promoting the recycling of different materials in the school.

This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to research and present some of the benefits and disadvantages that can be produced when recycling different materials at home and in school. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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