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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 9 -  A Garbage Play                                             2 – 3

Skills: role playing

Time: one to two class periods

Learning Objective: students will act out situations involving litter or garbage in which a decision or action based on personal values and an attitude towards the environment must be made.

NOTE: this Activity could follow LITTER: ACTIVITY 4.

Materials and Equipment: none.

1. Ask students to role-play the following situations:

• You come into a classroom chewing gum and want to get rid of it. You can’t see the garbage can. What can you do with the gum?
• You are playing an exciting game on the school grounds at recess. You unwrap your piece of cake, but it’s a long way to the nearest garbage can. What can you do with the wrapping?
• You and your friend are walking home, sharing a can of pop. You each have different ideas about what to do with the empty container. What ideas do you each have? What do you do with it?

RE…Think

Ask students to suggest similar situations for role-playing involving litter or garbage in which they have to make a decision about what to do in the situation.

Discuss the role-playing with the students:

• How did you feel in the role-play?
• Was it easy to make a decision, or hard?
• Is that the decision you would make in "real life"? Why or why not?

Has this role-playing affected how you think about littering? If so, how?

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