Project Description, Goals, and Theme

This project has been designed to maximize cross-curricular learning, develop 21st century skills, and give students agency to create change in their communities. The guiding question is "How can we teach others how to responsibly dispose of trash in our community?". The project is broken into three smaller projects:

Trashcan Painting

Trashion Show

Trash Themed Play

Trashcan painting

Students will first learn about the effects of littering for the environment, animals, and humans. They will then paint trash cans and recycling bings to reflect their learning. Next, the students will all take part in a trash clean up with their parents and community members.

Trashion Show

Students will work together to create a piece of clothing made with recycled materials. They will present their final garments to parents and community members before the play. Students may even choose to wear their recycled clothing as their costume.

Trash Themed Play

Students will plan the script and costuming for a trash themed play. Their parents and local community members will be invited to watch at the end of the project. Students will use their research about recycling and trash disposal to teach the audience about strategies they themselves can use.

Cross Curricular Goals

Pre-K

Ages 3-4

Language Skills
- Increase knowledge of vocabulary words pertaining to ecology, the environment, and responsible trash disposal
Self-Care and personal responsibility
- Students will gain a deeper understanding of their personal responsibility to care for our earth
- Students will also will grow in their ability to responsibly and positively influence others to do the same.
Gross motor skills
- Movement during the Trash Themed Play, coordinated walking during Trashion show, walking and picking up trash
Fine motor skills
- Cutting in play scenes and costumes as well as outfits for trashion show
- Drawing & coloring for play scenes, and in designing the trash cans
- Using glue and tape for creating outfits for trashion show
- Using Painting materials on trash and recycling cans
Social-Emotional Development
- During the practice and performance of the play as well as the Trashion Show students will be taking turns and sharing during the creation process with materials
- The play will give students the opportunity to see from others perspective which is an important developmental skill for this age learned through role play
- Following Directions applies to every aspect of this project
Cognitive Development
- Recognizing and creatively working with colors during the creation phase of the Trashion Show and Trash can Painting projects
- Recognizing and creatively working with shapes from recycled materials for the Trashion Show, combining different shapes to make new shapes from materials
- Using math skills in measuring for creating costumes, outfits, backdrops, and props for the play and trashion show and using math skills to count how many trashcans need to be painted and assigning the right amount of students and volunteers to those trash cans
- Sorting trash and recycle
Problem-Solving
- Students will use problem solving skills to figure out how to reach and teach their community how to dispose of trash and recycling responsibly.

K2

Ages 5-6

Science and technology:

–Students can make verbal prediction at will.

Students will predict if we don't make changes what will happen to the environment in the future .

– Student is aware of the change in environment and knows a possible cause of the change.

Students is aware of the trash , littering in the environment, they understand the influence it has to the environment.

– Students can name an object or event in the natural and physical worlds.

They will name and sort out different types of trash.

Creative Arts:

–Children express and represent what they observe ,think, imagine, and feel through two-and three-dimensional art.

They recycle and design clothes by using different recycled materials, display it through "trashion show".
They make creative arts by recycling cans.

– Children appreciate the creative arts.

Language ,Literacy Communication:

–Comprehension, children understand language.

–Reading, children read for pleasure and information.

Social Studies:

–Ecology, Children understand the importance

They call on people in the community to take action and protect environment, display posters and communicate with others.

Grade 1

Ages 6-7

Communication & Interpersonal relationships
- Students will collaborate with classmates to research and prepare for all 3 small projects
- Public speaking skills
Writing skills
- Students will write their own script and creatively use their own ideas for the play
Gross motor skills
- Movement during the Trash Themed Play, coordinated walking during Trashion show, walking and picking up trash
Fine motor skills
- Cutting, coloring, painting, and tying. Students will use many fine motor skills to craft clothing, prepare for the play, and paint the trashcans.
Problem solving skills
Creative Arts
- Designing clothing
- Creating scripts
- Presenting a play
Cognitive Development
- Recognizing and creatively working with colors during the creation phase of the Trashion Show and Trash can Painting projects
- Recognizing and creatively working with shapes from recycled materials for the Trashion Show
- Numbers
- Sorting trash and recycle
STEAM
- Students will learn about technology used in trash disposal such as incinerators.
- See more details below

Description of STEAM

Science:

–observe and reflect about what is happening to the environment—trash, littering.

–Classify different types of trash.

—Draw conclusions on trash and littering have a bad impact on the environment, and what we should do.

—Predict what will happen to the environment or the earth if we don’t take care of trash and keep littering.

Technology:

– use computers to search and gather information about environment pollution, trash disposal, and recycling

-- Video recording skills & apps on ipad

Mathematics:

– inquire about how much trash they consume each day, try different ways to measure it

—use information about quantity to draw conclusions, and solve problems

---calculating costs & interpreting data about long term costs of littering

Art:

— design posters of protecting the environment and how to dispose of trash properly

—trash show

---writing script & performing scenes about trash disposal for parents

---designing and creating artwork on trash cans

Steam Continued if needed

In Closing

This is the conclusion of your project. It’s where you sum up all of your main ideas and offer a final perspective. In a few sentences, review your strongest points and reinforce the assertion you made in your introduction. For the most effective conclusion, be concise, confident and focused.

21st Century Skills

Even early years learners can begin to build the foundation of crucial 21st century skills needed for life. Here are some they will acquire with A Litter-less World projects:

Critical Thinking

Students use critical thinking in the design and planning processes of the project.

Creativity & Innovation

Students get to exercise their creativity and innovation through acting in the Play, designing and painting the trash & recycle cans, and designing fashion items from recycled items.

Collaboration

Collaborating with peers on projects and collaborating with school and neighborhood communities for events.

Communication

Students communicate with each other in the creative stage as well as communicating with parents and community members in the execution and presentation stage.

Information Literacy

As students research about the environment and ecology, they will learn to discern credible information.

Flexibility

This project involves coordination with peers, teachers, parents, and community members. Students will learn flexibility skills while working together.

Leadership & Responsibility

This whole project is allowing these students to be responsible leaders and influencers in their homes, schools and communities.

Social Skills

Students use every day social skills important for them now and for the future such as taking turns, sharing, encouraging others, and working as a team towards common goals.

Problem Solving

Students will be faced with problems at every stage of this project and will have to use problem solving skills to reach their goals.