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Goal

The goal is to promote conservation while educating students and the community on the importance of protecting the Earth through recycling. Students will be made aware of environmental impacts of litter and pollution while learning about the Three R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle). The club will be an outlet for those students wanting to make a positive difference. Students will learn how to recycle properly, while also integrating the Three R’s into the school’s community through monthly activities. The club also allows students to assume a leadership role, if desired, in which they would interact and assist their peers. The club and the club’s initiatives will help foster a positive school community, illustrating the power of working together.  

What will be done with my students

Once the club is established and members are selected the students would begin the first phase of school-wide recycling. The phases are: education, recognize, sort, and collect. Each phase would last approximately 1 week. School-wide recycling operations would start after a month, with students accepting the responsibilities of implementation. Members of the recycling club will become Monitors, checking and emptying the cans around the campus and in teacher’s rooms. After school-wide recycling is implemented, there will be monthly activities where classes will compete against each other to save and conserve a particular item. The item must be brought in and once collected the class that conserved the most will a recycling club button as a reward. The recycled items will then be transformed into beautiful artwork or something useful. For example, plastic water bottles could be collected then turned into a bench for the whole school to use.
The recycling club will integrate multiple subjects areas across all grade levels through the tracking of the school’s recycling progress as well as, the monthly activities .
Here are some specific standards taken from various grades.
Social studies: SS.1.C.2.1 Explain the rights and responsibilities students have in the school community.
SS.1.C.1.3 Give examples of the use of power without authority in the school and community.
SS.1.C.2.2 Describe the characteristics of responsible citizenship in the school community.
SS.1.C.2.3 Identify ways students can participate in the betterment of their school and community.
SS.1.C.2.4 Show respect and kindness to people and animals.

Math: MAFS.3.MD.1.2 Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l). Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes that are given in the same units.
MAFS.3.MD.2.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs. For example, draw a bar graph in which each square in the bar graph might represent 5 plastic bottles collect.
MAFS.3.MD.2.4 Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units—whole numbers, halves, or quarters.

Science: SC.5.E.7.2 Recognize that the ocean is an integral part of the water cycle and is connected to all of Earth's water reservoirs via evaporation and precipitation processes.
SC.5.P.9.1 Investigate and describe that many physical and chemical changes are affected by temperature.
a) investigate a way to reverse a chemical change
b) experiment and record the temperature changes that occur during a physical or chemical change
c) describe whether a physical or chemical change has occurred given different examples. (e.g. a pile of ashes, crumpled aluminum foil, cooked cookie, melting ice to water and boiling to steam), etc.
SC.1.P.8.1 Sort objects by observable properties, such as size, shape, color, temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light), texture, and whether objects sink or float
a) investigate an area outside and illustrate examples of the Earth’s surface (i.e. water, rocks, soil and living organisms),
b) determine from a set of pictures/illustrations where the images are found on Earth’s surface,
c) identify some ways people use the Earth’s surface, etc.SC.1.E.6.1 Recognize that water, rocks, soil, and living organisms are found on Earth's surface.
SC.1.E.6.3 Recognize that some things in the world around us happen fast and some happen slowly.
 

Benefits to my students

Students from grades k-5 will be “recruited” to join VOE’s recycling club. The recycling club’s primary initiative is to assist in school wide recycling. Currently, the recycling bins are being emptied into trash cans because they are not being used correctly in classroom. The first task is to educate everyone on campus about the three R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) and how to recycle properly.
The club will increase student involvement as well as responsibility. The activities presented by the club will integrate multiple subjects in an exciting, hands-on way. The real-world application will entice students of all ages to participate and become self-aware of the part they play in preserving the Earth and its resources.
 

Budget Narrative

T-shirts are needed to identify the members of the recycling club, acting as a hall pass. In order for students to walk through the hallways safely, they need some sort of identification. The shirts will also act as advertisement for the club and an incentive for its members. Six grade levels 2-3 students chosen per grade.
Recycling club buttons will be purchased as an additional incentive and also class prizes.
The bins needed for smooth implementation make up the bulk of the cost. The current bins and small and isolated to classrooms only. In order to promote full-fledged, recycling school-wide students and staff need access to bins across the campus (hallways, office, pavilion, media center, and cafeteria for example). To facilitate the sorting of recyclable materials two types of bins will be purchased; one for paper and plastic, another for waste.
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