Plastic & Recycling

9 to 12-year-olds

This teaching program is about plastic and recycling. It teaches children what the environment is and how they can take care of it, and discusses the concepts of waste and litter and the decomposition times of organic waste, cardboard, glass, plastic and aluminium. It pays a lot of attention to plastic in the ocean and shows how harmful plastic litter is for plants, animals and people, and how you can do something about it by recycling plastic.

The teaching materials that accompany this program consist of a lesson plan, colourful power point presentations, worksheets, craft materials, films, songs, a recycling brochure, a children’s contract, a class contract and a group test.