2.11 Recycling Adds Up
This is Lesson 11 (“Recycling Adds Up!”) from the Grow Your PALS Program Guide, part of the National FFA Mentoring Program’s Recycling unit. The large-group lesson has students investigate how much of a product’s weight comes from packaging by weighing food containers and calculating percentages, then uses a kinesthetic “Go-Get-It e-Moment” activity to teach the benefits of recycling and its impact on the environment and future.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Discover the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling.
- Explain three benefits of recycling and how it will impact our future.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 60 minutes.
- Materials
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- PALS.11.TM.A
- PALS.11.AS.A – 1 per class
- PALS.11.AS.B – 1 per class (Use brightly colored paper of different colors if available.)
- 6 empty food containers (boxes, steel cans, bottles, jars etc.) with the products' net weight printed on the label
- Food scale that shows ounces (can be obtained from the Family and Consumer Science department or from a local grocery store.)
- Calculator
- Sticky notes
- Unit
- Recycling
- Lesson Type
- Large Group
- Precepts
- A. Action — A8. Evaluate and reflect on action taken; E. Awareness — E2. Perform leadership tasks associated with citizenship
- Key Terms
- None
- Resources
- http://www.hcdoes.org/sw/benefits_of_recycling.htm; http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/2lg-5.htm
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NM-ALG.3-5.3Use Mathematical models to Represent and Understand Quantitative Relationships
- NM-MEA.3-5.2Apply Appropriate Techniques, Tools and Formulas to Determine Measurements
- NT.K-12.2Social, Ethical and Human Issues.