Trash a Pizza
January 19, 2010
At EcoSmart, we’ve just discovered Kids at Art, an award-wining website that gives ideas to teachers for art projects with trash and recycled materials. We especially like the Trash A Pizza activity, in which students can keep track of what’s going into their classroom garbage and create a pizza pie chart to show the different categories of trash, such as paper, hard plastics, lunch containers, glass, metals, and food scraps, etc.
Follow up lessons and action plans would reinforce the message that small changes can have a big impact. Experimenting with zero waste lunches, buying recycled products such as 100% post-consumer waste (PCW) recycled paper and replacing disposable items with reuseable ones, such as our AusPen refillable dry erase markers (of course) will teach the students that not all pizzas need to have the works.
Check out their site, it’s great!
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