Michelle Terry

Title/Subject: Recycling Center Field Trip/Social Studies Grade Level: 4th Arkansas Frameworks Addressed: G.3.4.4 Explain how people are influenced by, adapt to, and alter the environment (e.g., agriculture, housing, occupation, industry, transportation, communication, acid rain, global warming, ozone depletion) G.3.4.6 Research ways in which the school and community can improve the physical environment by practicing conservation Common Core Standards Addressed: CC.4.SL.1 Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly. Learning Goals: KNOW: The students will know how the recycling center and employees operate. UNDERSTAND: The students will understand that as a citizen it is their responsibility to alter the environment for the better.

Michelle Terry

BE ABLE TO DO: The students will be able to describe their favorite part of the recycling center. Materials: Recycling Center Paper Pencil Procedures: *Review of relevancy of new learning to prior & future learning: This lesson is designed to show students that one person can impact the environment (for good or bad) and different ways they can change the environment around their community for the better. The students will explore how a recycling center operates and what the employees do. The students will be able to use these ideas in the future to better the environment that we live in. *Schema Activation: Ask the students if they know how things come to be recycled. Have the students share with their shoulder partners. After they have shared with shoulder partners have them share with the table beside them.

Michelle Terry

*Next Steps: Explain to the students that today we will be going to the recycling center. Go over field trip procedures. Tell the students that they need to give our tour guide their undivided attention. At the recycling center the students will get to trace the path of recyclables, they will learn more about the importance of the 3 Rs, students will be able to sort recyclables, and talk with professionals modeling waste reduction practices. After the field trip the students will write a short response about their favorite part of the recycling center. *Closure: Once the papers have been turned in tell the students that now they will get to put all their knowledge in to action. The students will be able to start a recycling program in the school. They will be able to reduce the amount of waste, reuse everyday objects like the examples we saw in class, and recycle everyday. Tell the students that the recycling center is setting us up with recycle bins throughout the school. The students will be given the chance to make labels for what objects go in what bins (paper, plastic, trash).

Michelle Terry

Evaluation: I will know the students understood the objectives if they can discuss the how a recycling center operates. I will know the students understood the objectives if they can express their favorite part of the recycling center in writing. I will know the students understood the objectives if they are actively involved in the school recycling program.