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Lesson Five – Lunchtime Bins

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise designing and presenting labels for a range of different litter bins that can be used to promote recycling around the school.
The class can select and record a list of the benefits and disadvantages of recycling a range of materials and suggest how they can be reused for another purpose.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise designing and presenting labels for a range of different litter bins that can be used to promote recycling around the school
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different materials that can be recycled and persuasive language that can be used to encourage recycling and a worksheet to identify and record the benefits and disadvantages of recycling a range of materials.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to design labels for a range of different litter bins that can be used to promote recycling 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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