Lesson overview

The last two lessons in this unit challenge students to work collaboratively to create a campaign based on the 6 Rs. First students find out about innovation, development and policy changes that have recently occurred. They are then briefed on their mission – to reduce the amount of plastic consumption in their school community. In groups students then design and implement their campaign, planning and launching it over the following week.

Learning outcomes

• Name the 6 Rs and explain what each one means
• Understand developments in technology and innovation regarding plastics pollution
• Discover how recent policy has been proposed and enacted relating to plastics pollution
• Reflect on how they can make a difference
• Work collaboratively to plan a plastics pollution campaign

Lesson steps

1. The 6 Rs (5 mins)
   Students find out about each of the 6 Rs and make suggestions of how they could do more of each one.
2. Innovation and technology (10 mins)
   Students find out about some recent innovations designed to improve plastics pollution, focussing on young people’s contributions.
3. Plastic policy (5 mins)
   Students discover the changes to policy that have been recently enacted and discuss whether they believe enough has been done.
4. Now it’s your turn! (10 mins)
   Students will be enacting real change in their school environment. They receive their brief and mind map their ideas.
5. Plan your campaign (30 mins)
   In groups students begin to plan their campaign, create a ‘to do’ list and allocate responsibilities. They can then begin working collaboratively on their tasks.

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Science Key Stage 2

Living things and their habitats

• Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

Working Scientifically

• Plan different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary
• Take measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate
• Record data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs
• Report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and a degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations

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Human and physical geography

• Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle
• Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water