Recycling Poem and Songs

 

EARTH DAY MIXUP

I was telling my friend all about Earth Day

She heard me wrong and thought I said “birthday”

She said she would rush down to the mall

And buy a dollhouse or a doll

I said she shouldn’t buy all that stuff

The landfills are full of trash

Then she knew that she’d made a mistake

And said she would make a birthday cake

I cheered about that, I said “hooray!”

So that’s how we’re celebrating Earth Day

Now she’s learning about recycling trash

And not only that but she saved her cash!

What you can do

When you see litter in the streets

And the air smells of pollution

When you feel like it’s all piling up

Remember there is a solution

There’s something each of us can do

To keep the rivers clean

To keep fresh the air we breathe

And keep the forests green

Help clean a beach

Or recycle bottles and cans

Learn about the problems we face

And help other understand

It doesn’t have to be a lot

If we each just do our share

So take time out on earth Day

To show the Earth you care.

 

Recycling Games

-          Trash Can Relay. Set up five classroom trash cans in an obstacle course. The first student on the team runs the course, weaving in and out around the cans. When the student reaches the last can, he or she turns around and weaves back to the team. The runner taps the next team member in line, who takes his/her turn running the course.

-          Bottle Bowling. Set up bowling pins made from 2-liter soda pop bottles, small bleach bottles, or tall dishwashing detergent bottles. Tip: Put about an inch of sand in the bottom of the bottles; the pins will still be easy to bowl down, but the bottles won't fall as easily as they would if there was no sand in them. 

-          Waste No Water. Fill a clean open-topped non-breakable container (a plastic spaghetti sauce jar or a soup can work well) with water for each team; be sure the containers are the exact same size and filled to the brim with water. Set a start and finish point. At a signal, the first runner heads for the finish line, walks over the line, turns around and heads back to his or her team, and passes the container to the next person in line. At the end of the race, the team with the most water still in the container is the winner. 

-          Newspaper Relay. Provide a stack of newspapers for each team and have team members divide the stack evenly among themselves. Set up a paper bag or recycle bin (or whatever container your community uses for recycling newspaper) at a finish line. At a signal, the first member of the team carries his or her stack of newspaper to the finish line, deposits it in the container, runs back to the team, and taps the next person in line.

-          Putt for Points. Paint five coffee cans with bright colors. Paint or draw a point value on each can. (Suggestions: Paint the number 5 on one can, the number 10 on another, 15 on a third, 20 on a fourth, and 50 on the fifth.) Set up the coffee cans in a row. Give students three golf balls and three chances to accumulate points for their team. 

-          Tumbling Towers. This activity can be done one team at a time. Provide a recycle bin full of clean aluminum cans (for example, soda pop cans). At a signal, students have 2 minutes to stack the cans one atop another. Each student takes a turn at building a tower by stacking cans one atop the other. The student on each team who builds the tallest tower then represents his or her team in a final team-against-team stacking competition.

An online game

A short animated story about HOW PAPER IS MADE

How paper is made?

Peppa Pig recycling episode

A short lesson about RECYCLE, REUSE AND REDUCE (THREE R’S)

Short Animated Stories about recycling

http://www.brysoneducation.org/age_5_7/where_does_the_rubbish_go/mr_rat_recycling_story.asp 

Recycling Songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3eHSADIsE

Recycling...

Recycling is a very interesting content to teach. 

It is usually interesting for the students and it is very useful for real life. Foreign Language Teachers should conect the contents with the learners' lives so it is a good way to achieve this objective. The main objective should be to use the foreign language as a tool for communication, and teaching recycle contents is a good way to get it.

In this blog we want to introduce some materials and resources which can be useful to teach abour recycling.