Aims+&+Objectives

=Aims & Objectives:=

__**Knowledge objectives**__

 * The students understand the differences between the terms reduce, reuse and recycle.
 * The students realise that recycling is vital for helping to maintain a healthy environment.
 * The students know which items found in their lunchboxes and around the home are recycable.
 * The students realise that every piece of garbage they throw away has an impact on the environment.

**Inquiry:**

 * The students visit the recycle plant and are able to ask questions about anything that has to do with the three R's.
 * The students use their inquiry skills to find out what types of things are made out of the material assigned to each group (eg; paper) and then produce a poster

**Academic:**

 * The students learn to differentiate between recycable and non-recycable items found in their lunchboxes and around the school, and home.
 * The students learn how to present information in the form of a poster.

**Social:**

 * The students learn how to work together as a team when preparing a poster.
 * The students understand that to help save the environment through recycling, everyone needs to work together.

**__Attitudes/Sensitivities/Value Objectives__**

 * The students appreciate that in order to help maintain a healthy environment, we must reduce, reuse and recycle.
 * The students are interested in understanding what happens when you recycle an item.
 * The students respect the need for recycling in the world.
 * The students value recycling as a tool for keeping Australia beautiful.

**__Social Action Objectives__**

 * The students will learn how to actively participate in recycling in order to maintain a healthy environment.
 * The students will participate in creating a play to explain to others why it is important for recycle.