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Grades K-1: Not All Bugs Are Litter Bugs
Students will learn to pick up litter and throw items in the trash or recycling bin.
Materials: Blue Bug's Beach Party by Virginia Poulet, art supples, litter bags
Vocabulary: Litter, trash, recycle
Procedures:
- Discuss how trash on the ground in unsightly and can cause problems for animals.
- Read Blue Bug's Beach Party
- Decorate litter bags using any small plastic bag with markers, construction paper etc. The bags will be used to help Blue Bug by picking up litter in and around the school.
- Teach the song "Please Don't Litter" to the tune of Frere Jacques.
Please don't litter. Please don't litter.
Glas and tin, aluminum,
Paper, cardboard, plastic
Once again's fantastic!
Use again, use again!
- Take students around the building or on school grounds for a litter hunt. Remind if they find glass or something wet, that they should ask you to pick it up.
Conclusion: Dispose of the collected litter in the trash. Also, show litter that can be recycled
Time: 45-60 minutes
Followup: Have them take their litter bag home to be used in the car.
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