Trash In Trash Out: its time to clean it UP!

Landfills Across America

Lesson Plan #144

Teacher: Miss Katherine Victoria VanAnderland, Original Copy

Date: 08/20/2020

Overview & Purpose

We live in a society that is instant these days and trash in our lives is every single day needing to throw away the “fast” life cups from service stations, starbucks, and fast food places. We need to be cognizant of what to do and where to put the trash. We need to start the “GO GREEN NOW” in our neighborhoods to remind people to reuse coffee styrofoam cups and not take a new one each time. We are killing our environment each time we do and limiting our children of today from living a quality life with good Air Quality.

Education Standards

1. Research Skills

2. Reading Skills

3. Comprehension

Objectives

1. Research the websites to see what we can do at a local level

2. Find out what the total number of landfills in the USA

3. See what we can do to educate zip codes and send out mailers across the usa for “Go Green Now” find facts about landfills that should scare people to stop putting everything into the trash

Materials Needed

1. https://www.hennepin.us/green-disposal-guide/landfills-transfer-stations

2. https://www.hennepin.us/green-disposal-guide

3. https://www.pca.state.mn.us/waste/landfills

Verification

Steps to check for student understanding

1. Complete all Research

2. Pick 10 of the biggest cities and deliver a “GO Green Now” campaign letter to all the representatives of those big cities with eventually reaching all senators, and representatives of the USA.

3. Build a website for “GO Green Now” with Wix.com

Activity - This activity is for the 60,030s and I will be designing it with their help when we meet for winter celebration of homecoming.

Describe activity that will reinforce the lesson

Build a website for “Go Green Now”

1. A letter on the website to the branches of government

2. A fact page on landfills

3. A fact page about recycling

4. Add links to the work books you can share and educate with others

5. Put on your personal message of why its so important to recycle and keep our landfills empty

To all the other people who enjoy my lesson plans write your senators and represeatives why we need more recycling laws passed and what we can do in a world of TRASH.