Activity Plan

Name and Date:

Name of Activity: Preserving Earth’s Environment and Recycling

Curriculum Area: Social Studies

Age Group: Pre-K

Group size: 10 children

Primary Learning Outcome: Students will learn the importance of taking care of our environment and find out the ways of recycling the trash created when we use products throughout the day. Students will also learn how recycling helps to preserve the various environments on our planet.

Goals and Objectives:

Social Development:

  1. Most of the children will show cooperation by taking turns during group discussions throughout the week.
  2. All of the children will share materials while working together to create a recycled art collage.
  3. Most of the children will show pro-social skills by participating in the cleaning the yard as a group.

Emotional Development:

  1. Most of the children will express pleasure when participating in the group discussions about recycling.
  2. All of the children will show pride when accomplishing group collage.
  3. Some of the children will show excitement when learning a new song.

Physical Development:

  1. Most of the students will develop their fine motor skills by using scissors to cut a large piece of paper into smaller pieces of paper.
  2. All of the children will use their eye-hand coordination while pasting the collage materials on the paper.
  3. All of the students will develop their gross motor skills by doing physical movements that correlate to the words of the songs sung throughout the week and when cleaning the yard.

Cognitive/language:

  1. Most of the children will be able to listen and participate in the discussions about recycling.
  2. Most of the children will be able to sing and remember parts of the songs sung during the week.
  3. Most of the children will be able to sort, count, and classify the different objects brought in for recycling.

Creative Expression:

  1. Most of the children will make a collage according to their own ideas.
  2. Some of the children will generate discussions about recycling according their own experiences.
  3. Most of the children will make instruments in their own way using materials.

Provision for Individual and Cultural Differences:

  1. Some of the children may need help to make instruments.
  2. A few of the children may need extra time to complete their work.
  3. Some children may need support in their home language.

Materials: Books on Earth Day, recyclable materials for the collage (water bottles, papers, cans, strawberry tins glue, and butcher paper.

Procedure:

  1. We will read a book on Earth Day and have discussion on what it means. Discuss the Three R’s (recycle, reuse, and reduce)
  2. Then the children will be transitioned to the art table where all the materials set up. The children will have a choice to glue any of the recycled materials that will be available on the table on the butcher paper.
  3. The children will be asked to identify the materials that they have glued on the paper and talk about why it is important to recycle.

Open-ended question:

  1. What do you remember from the book?
  2. Why do you think it is important to recycle?
  3. How can we take care of our environment?

Closure: After finishing the collage we will ask the children to go wash their hands and invite another group over to do the collage.

Follow up:

Day two – Take children for a walk with the paper bags and clean the environment (collect papers and other trash that are on the ground)

Day three – teach a new song “Recycling for Our Earth.

Day four – Math: sort recycling materials students have brought in into different categories, and then count them.

Day five – Make instruments from the recycling materials