Recycling Thematic Unit

Hi Gabriella, Thank you for your question! A little tricky to answer... :) Every lesson/activity in this unit is integrated, eg. a lesson may include discussion, thinking and reasoning (literacy activities) while the topic is landfills...there is then an application where the children make and monitor a mini landfill...which further involves writing up their findings.

Here is a list of the topics covered by the unit: Sorting rubbish; Creating litter monsters from junk; Where does it come from, where does it go? (includes creating and monitoring a mini landfill); Packaging (includes experiments relating to magnetism, sinking and floating and waterproof materials); One man's trash is another man's treasure (recycling/reusing); Magazine madness (a whole host of language activities - reading, spelling, writing, etc) (This section is available as a free download if you would like to take a closer look!!); Making puppets from junk and putting on a puppet show; Maths from trash (includes shapes, capacity, sorting and counting, number work, time, money); Science of Sound (Sound experiments, history of the telephone, writing a dialogue, make a telephone); Junk-estra! (Making instruments and music from junk); Ready, steady...recycle! (PhysEd activities using recycled materials e.g. plastic bag football/soccer, newspaper hockey, etc)...as you can see quite a vast variety of activities. Almost all the activities involve literacy in some shape or form, whether it be discussion (oral); writing (creative, informational, dialogue, etc.); reading; spelling; word work; etc. And as the topic has a strong science/social studies connection most activities include some element of this subject. I hope this helps to make your decision easier...I am sorry I cannot give you more definite numbers of lessons...Please do download the 'Magazine Madness' freebie..this will give you a selection of just some of the literacy activities that are included. If you decide to purchase 'Recycle' you will soon see why it is difficult to actually pinpoint a number of lessons for each subject. Many of the "lessons" are "multi" activities with a number of different activities relating to the topic that all integrate with one another to form an holistic learning experience.
I am sure that you will find this resource "jam packed" with wonderful learning activities and opportunities!
Warm regards
Michelle