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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

Skills: role-playing

Time: one class period

Learning Objective: students will understand some of the difficulties of the work of the sanitation workers; students will consider ways in which they, or their family, can help the sanitation worker do his/her job most effectively.

NOTE: this activity can be carried out in conjunction with

Materials and Equipment: clean discards, such as milk cartons, plastic containers, etc. that can be turned into houses, trucks, garbage cans, recycling containers, etc.

Activity:

1. Recall OUR GARBAGE: ACTIVITY 2 with the students.
2. Students, using glue, paint, etc., make houses, trucks, garbage cans, etc. to make props for "let’s pretend".
3. Using their props, students create a street scene in their community in the sandbox or on the floor.
4. Encourage students to act out the various roles involved in municipal sanitation: the householder, the truck driver, the sanitation worker, the landfill operator. 

RE…Think

Encourage students to think of the problems and difficulties a sanitation worker faces in his/her job.

Discuss:

• What are some of the problems the sanitation worker might have doing his/her job?
• What are some of the dangers he/she might face?
• How can we help the sanitation worker do his/her job safely and quickly?
• What parts of the job would you like?
• What parts of the job would you not like?

Have students draw a picture illustrating how they can help when putting out the garbage at home.

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