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Earth Day Activities
LITTER PREVENTION

Grades 2-3

Students will practice picking up litter and create an anti-litter bulletin board.

Materials: paper bags, collage material, glue scissors, The Great Trash Bash by Loreen Leedy

Vocabulary: prediction, litter

Procedures:

  • Discuss what is litter and why people may litter. Have students create a list of why litter is bad for the environment.
  • Decorate bags with collage materials.
  • Read The Great Trash Bash by Loreen Leedy and share the pictures with the students.
  • Chart student's predictions on what litter they may find during their litter pickup.
  • Go for a litter walk around school grounds and have children pick up clean and dry litter.
  • Sort and classify the trash from the student's litter bags by material type such as paper, plastic, wood, etc.

Conclusion: Compare the contents of the litter bags with the predications.

Time: 1 � - 2 hours

Followup: Use litter to create an anti-litter bulletin board.

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