Waste Watchers: Sorting for a Healthier Earth
Grade level: 5th Grade
Initial ideas
Students have studied how the 4 earth systems interact to transfer matter that relies on solar energy and creates the web of life. Students have created models of the matter cycle of a forest ecosystem and a common rural ecosystem. The students need to use the science ideas from this learning to identify a type of waste we create at school that negatively impacts the local ecosystem. They need to design a way to get the students and staff to sort waste correctly. They also need to educate students and staff as to why their solution positively impacts the local ecosystem.