Year 1 - Waste
Key Questions
What should we do with our rubbish?
How can we reduce the amount of rubbish we produce?
Key knowledge
Knowledge – children will know:
Rubbish is everything people throw away or no longer have a use for, sometimes rubbish is called waste.
Rubbish can be a solid, liquid or gas.
There are three different sorts of rubbish:
- Domestic – rubbish from our homes.
- Industrial – rubbish from our factories, offices, shops and schools.
- Hazardous – rubbish which needs to be disposed of in a careful way because it is dangerous.
Rubbish is made up of different substances and materials:
- Biodegradable rubbish breaks down naturally in the environment and eventually disappears e.g. left over food and paper.
- Non-biodegradable rubbish does not break down naturally in the environment, or takes a long time to break down e.g. plastic bottles.
The Government has put in place certain rules (laws) to ensure rubbish is disposed of in a responsible way e.g. ensuring chemicals do not go into our streams and river.
Rubbish is disposed of by burning, being buried in a landfill or by being recycled. Burning our rubbish, or sending it to landfills is not good for our world.
We need think of ways to reduce the amount of rubbish we produce and increase the amount of rubbish we reuse or recycle.
Recycling is the process of converting rubbish into new materials and objects.
Contextualised teaching and learning. Children will apply their knowledge to a context (contexts are based on learning through stories).
Children investigate the amount of rubbish produced by food packaging.
Development of Skills
- Investigation of food packaging at local supermarket and producing recycling information for shoppers.
- Visit to Crow Recycling Centre in Coventry.
- Invite visitor to school to talk about Solihull rubbish and their recycling plans (Council officer or local councillor)