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Re-Think Activities
An educational Unit for children up to Grade 4
Written by Valerie Thom, B.Ed. and edited by Allard W. van Veen, APR, Fellow, CPRS

This unit has six chapters, each filled with information, ideas and projects. Words in bold and in italics are featured in the glossary which you can reach by clicking here

LITTER AND OUR ENVIRONMENT: ACTIVITY 11 -  Let’s Think About Dangerous Litter!         K – 3

Skills: role playing

Time: one class period

Learning Objective: students will identify how their own actions may create dangerous litter.

NOTE: this Activity can follow LITTER: ACTIVITY 10.

Materials and Equipment: none. APPENDIX 10 provides background information for the teacher on dangerous litter.

1. Review what the students learned about dangerous litter in LITTER: ACTIVITY 10, if done, OR discuss the concept of dangerous litter.

2. Discuss the following situations with the students then have them role-play the situations OR have students make up their own similar situations for role-playing:

• You and a friend are in his boat on the lake fishing. Your friend wants to throw the wrappings from your picnic lunch into the lake. What do you do?
• Your older brother wants to throw out his empty drink container as you are driving home together. What would you say to him?
• You and a friend are walking along the riverbank. You see an empty bottle lying in the rocks. Your friend wants to throw rocks at it. What would you do?

3. You may wish to have students select one situation to write about and to illustrate.

RE…Think

Encourage students to think about how very simple actions can cause problems for people and wildlife. You may wish to contact local animal and/or wildlife agencies for information on this topic, and have students monitor newspapers and magazines for related articles.

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