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Grades 7-9: ISW: Recycling Logos and Production Process
For this activity, you may want to team with the art or industrial technology departments.
Students will investigate environmental symbols and design a recycling logo for posters, banners or t-shirts to promote recycling and Earth Day.
Science Learning Outcomes: Grade 9 - #17
Materials: magazine, book of logos, silk-screening items or computer graphic software and iron-on transfer ribbon. Note: when designing an iron-on transfer the design and words will need to be flip horizontally, so words can be read correctly.
Vocabulary: Recycling, public awareness
Procedures:
- Have students work in pairs to identify and research 15-25 different environmental logos and slogans from products, public awareness campaigns and advertisements in newspapers, catalogues, magazines, t.v. and web sites. The research should include the meaning of the design in relation to the mission of the organization or company.
- Students will share five logos with the class.
- Each student will design a logo and slogan. Note: You will need to decide on black and white, two colored, four color or full color for the logos on t-shirts..
- Discuss production lines and the manufacturing process.
- Describe the process of creating the logos that the students will use.
- Split the students into groups to generate, and have the students write down a process order for the production line for their logo and each student in the group will play a role in production. Each students logo can be printed using their production strategy.
Conclusion:
- Each group should evaluate their technique and process order and share those changes with the class.
- Display t-shirts, signs, posters and banners in the school for Earth Day.
Time: three or four class periods
Followup: Have the students determine what to do with their waste products from the logo production and how could they have reused or recycled waste materials. Have them research environmental sound processes such as using organic inks in printing.
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