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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 5 -  A Plague Of "Litterbugs"!                             K – 3

Skills: drawing

Time: one class period

Learning Objective: students will use an imaginary creature, the "Litterbug",  to consider the effects of littering on their environment.

Materials and Equipment: none.

1. Discuss with the students what a "Litterbug" is and what "it" does to the environment. Ask them to imagine what their community would look like if it were invaded with a plague of "Litterbugs".

2. Have students pretend that they are newspaper photographers reporting on this plague, and draw their "photographs" of the effects of the infestation.

Look at the students’ pictures together to look for similarities and differences in how the students imagined such a plague would affect their community.

Discuss with the students:

• How would you feel if your community was really infested as you’ve shown in your picture?
• What would you do to get rid of the Litterbugs?
• Are there some Litterbugs in real life?
• How do the real Litterbugs affect your community?
• How should we deal with real Litterbugs?

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