Let’s Talk Trash!
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LANGUAGE ARTS/ ENGLISH Projects:
Anti Litter Classroom Projects These classroom / homeschool project ideas can be used in any grade by altering the degree of difficulty you assign to the projects. Use what ideas you can from these lesson plans and
incorporate your own anti-litter activities, too. Thanks for teaching kids how they can make a difference in keeping our community clean our state grand!
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TEACHERS
RESEARCH PAPER ON THE EFFECTS LITTER HAS ON THE ENVIRONMENT Use your school library to find information on the effects litter has on the environment. From this information write a research paper using your teacher’s specifications. PERSUASIVEESSAYCONTEST: Using the information you gathered while writing your research paper, compose a persuasive essay encouraging citizens not to litter. You can enter this essay into a classroom/school contest; make sure you are very persuasive in your writing. Submit to Let’s Talk Trash! and The Ashland City Times for possible publication. READING CONTEST: Pick books to read from the list your teacher has provided for you. Remember this is a reading contest, so read as many books as you can from the list. WRITE A PLAY OR SKIT; Write a play or a skit to encourage people not to litter or a play or skit that demonstrates the negative effects litter has on our community and Tennessee. WRITE AN ACROSTIC AND/OR POEM: Write an acrostic and/or a poem that relates to litter. POETRY CONTEST: Write a poem of any kind that relates to litter. Enter your poem in a classroom poetry contest your teacher may set up for you. JOURNALWRITING TOPICS: Write a journal entry on the anti-litter topic that your teacher assigns to you.
Help students get familiar with your school library if they are not already. Students may need direction to find the appropriate information for this paper. A litter fact sheet can help with this assignment. Ask your librarian to help you compile a list of books that relate to the effects litter has on the environment and any other environmental books that are educational. Supply your students with this list and encourage them to read as many books as they can in a set period of time. The students who read the most books could win prizes of your choice. Give out awards, and post a list of the winners outside your classroom for the rest of the school to see. Consider asking students to present oral book reports on their favorite books. Ask them if they have changed their behavior or attitudes about litter or the environment. Explain acrostics and different types of poems to your students. Help them compose an acrostic or a poem that relates to litter.
Help your students determine what type of poem they would like to write. Make sure they use an anti-litter theme. Set up a poetry contest to involve your classroom or school as a whole. Determine an appropriate award for your students.
Assign your students a journal topic with an anti-litter theme.
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