Reusable Bags
Description
This project will have you and your action team designing grocery bags from old materials from home to make funky & fun grocery bags! There are plenty of innovative ways you can reuse common household products and learning how to do so is what this project is all about. Specifically, by the end of this project we aim to flatten your fluffy pile of plastic shopping bags and turn your classmates into Reusing Superheroes – saving your money and our planet.
Language: English
Teachers Notes
Reusable Bags is a series of interesting activities through which students become acquainted with the concept of reusing. The resource emphasizes reducing and reusing over recycling. Students take action to decrease the number of plastic bags in circulation by constructing their own reusable bags using old clothing items.
Reusable Bags includes an introduction and is divided into four parts: preparatory activities, a bag-making day, follow-up activities and further opportunities for promoting reuse. The resource also offers an appendix that provides both background information and directions to a number of related resources.
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Source:LSF - EcoLeague
Resource Type:Lesson Plan
Subject(s):Arts, Social Studies,
Topic:Health, Recycling and Waste Management, Taking Action,
Level:Intermediate / Middle
Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9