Waste Wise Contract
What if.. Picture Smart Design a Game List
Alphabet
Design
Poster
B.A.R.
Alternatives
Predict
Question
Picture Smart
Interpretation
Green Hat
Thinking hats Maths/Logic
Music Smart
Venn Diagram
Your Name: ____________________________
What if…
What if a worm disease killed off all the worms? List five consequences. 1. __________________________________________ 2. ___________________________________________ 3. ___________________________________________ 4. __________________________________________ 5. __________________________________________
Picture Smart
In our Waste Wise topic, what might this picture be? (You may add to the picture.) Label the picture and write about it.
Design
Create a Recycling Board Game
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List
List 10 items you would NEVER discard or throw away.
1. __________________________ 2. __________________________ 3. __________________________ 4. __________________________ 5. __________________________ 6. __________________________ 7. __________________________ 8. __________________________ 9. __________________________ 10. __________________________
Alphabet
Use the letters from the alphabet and make a list of paper products.
A D G J M P S V Y
B E H K N Q T W Z
C F I L O R U X
Design
Design a new stove which is solar powered. Label the parts.
Poster
Design a poster to encourage people to reduce the amount of packaging they buy.
B.A.R
Draw a Rubbish Bin. Redesign it by making one part BIGGER. ADD something extra onto it. REPLACE one part with something else.
Alternatives
List different ways can you use yesterday’s newspaper?
1. _____________________________________________________ 2. _____________________________________________________ 3. _____________________________________________________ 4. _____________________________________________________ 5. _____________________________________________________ 6. _____________________________________________________ 7. _____________________________________________________ 8. _____________________________________________________ 9. _____________________________________________________ 10. ____________________________________________________
Predict
What might the next new packaging material be made of? __________________________________________ Why?
_________________________________________________________
The Question
The answer is: plastic.
Provide 5 interesting questions. ___________________________________
___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ____________________________________
Picture Smart
Design a poster to show composting as a re-cycling process.
Interpretation
“There are no Food Scraps for our compost this week.” Give 5 possible explanations. 1. ________________________________________ 2. ________________________________________ 3. ________________________________________ 4. ________________________________________ 5. ________________________________________
Green Thinking Hat
Create an acrostic poem about an aspect of being Waste Wise. For example compost, reduce.
Thinking Hats
Compost:
Black hat:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
List 5 problems with composting.
Yellow hat: List 5 good things about composting.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Green hat: Create (Design) a composting system which keeps the good points and overcomes the bad points. Label your diagram.
Maths/Logic
Survey 10 people in the class to find out the different uses they have for water. Consider how you might record the answers. Record the results using a Bar Graph.
Music Smart
We need to encourage all people to be Waste Wise. Write a jingle (short poem set to music) to do this. You may write new words to suit a song you already know, e.g. Hickory Dickory Dock or Hush-a-bye Baby.
Venn Diagram
Record facts (keywords) about plastic and paper in the Venn Diagram below. This graphic organiser will help you to record the similarities and differences between these two materials.
Plastic Paper
Different
Same
Different