Teaching Activities
The Great Water Bottle Journey: Reverse Narrative
In a reverse narrative, the plot is revealed in reverse order. Using this strategy, students will follow the journey of a plastic water bottle. They will be given the end of their bottle’s journey. The bottle could end on the ocean’s floor, in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, on a coastline, a landfill, or broken down into microplastics floating along the ocean’s surface or inside of marine wildlife. The students will create a visual representation depicting the steps of how the water bottle reached its location. The visual representation could be a comic strip, an infographic, or a poster.
Sorting Data Collection and Graphing
Students will utilize our Recycling Club to collect data about our school community. Oftentimes items are placed in the recycling bin that the recycling center cannot use. Students will learn what the appropriate items are to put in the recycling bins. Then they will investigate the recycling bins in our classrooms. They can sort the plastic in the classroom bins to see how many items end up in the bin that are not supposed to be there. They can make graphs to represent the data that they collect. Lastly, they will make posters based on their data to educate their schoolmates on the proper materials to place in the recycling bins.
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