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Earth Guardians - Sorting Waste (Teaching Media)

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CategoryTeaching Media
Grade bandGrades 1–3 (P.1–P.3)
Difficulty1 / 5
Material codeMT-SCI-002
File typePDF
Content languageThai
Price29 Baht

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Earth Guardians - Sorting Waste (Teaching Media)

Science Teaching Media worksheets on Sorting Waste and Recycling for Grades 1–3 (P.1–P.3), difficulty 1/5. PDF, downloadable as soon as payment clears.

Curriculum indicators practised

Linked curriculum indicators

  • ว 2.1 ป.2/4Recognise the benefits of reusing used materials by reusing them
  • ว 2.1 ป.2/3Compare the observable properties of materials in order to make objects for specific purposes, and explain the reuse of used materials, using empirical evidence

Before you begin

Teaching guide

What children will practise

Learn the four Thai waste types by bin colour, wet waste (green), recyclables (yellow), general waste (blue) and hazardous waste (red), sort items into the right bin, prepare waste before throwing it away, and know how to reduce, reuse and recycle.

What's in the worksheet

20 slides in which two children and a firefly save a town from a rubbish heap - Slides 1-3: what waste is, why we sort it (a clean town, fewer smells and germs, things can be used again), and the four coloured bins - Slides 4-7, one bin each: wet waste (food scraps, fruit peel, vegetable scraps, leaves; can become compost), recyclables (plastic bottles, paper, cans, glass bottles), general waste (dirty snack bags, food-stained foam, dirty plastic bags, used tissues) and hazardous waste (batteries, light bulbs, spray cans; never mixed with general waste) - Slides 8-14, how to do it: four steps before binning (empty, rinse, squash or fold, choose the right bin), where recycling goes (bottles to T-shirts, paper to notebooks), an eight-item sorting game, match waste to bins, what can be recycled, reduce, reuse, recycle, and a town that does not sort versus one that does - Slides 15-20: five ways to help, a clean-home mission, a summary, a four-question review, a five-question final mission and a certificate - No separate answer slides, but slides 11, 12, 18 and 19 already show the answers

How to use it in class

Use with Years 1-3 in an environment unit over two lessons of about 30-40 minutes (slides 1-9 learning the waste types, 10-20 sorting practice and review). - Before slide 10 bring in clean real waste such as a bottle, a can and a snack bag (use pictures, not real batteries or bulbs) and let children drop each into four coloured boxes, then check with the slide - Afterwards set the sorting waste worksheet, and have each child pick one action from slide 15 to try at home and report back

Common sticking points

- Putting bottles or cans still holding liquid or food into the recycling bin without emptying and rinsing them (slides 5 and 8 teach this step) - Thinking all plastic is recyclable, so dirty plastic bags or food-stained foam go in the yellow bin (slide 12 and question 4 on slide 18) - Throwing batteries or bulbs in with general waste because they are small and do not look dangerous - Mixing up the bin colours, especially green and yellow

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Written to the Thai curriculum

By a teacher who works in Thai classrooms, for Grades 1 to 6.

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