Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Worksheet

- Year levels
- Foundation–Year 1
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- Preparation
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- Subject
- Earth Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Holidays, Holiday & Seasonal, Science
- Topic
- Have Fun Teaching, Reducing Waste
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- Worksheets
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Help your Foundation-Year 3 students learn about reducing waste and taking care of our earth with this fun sorting activity! Students will cut out 15 pictures of household items, then sort and paste the 10 reusable items onto the reuse sheet, leaving the 5 remaining items out. This interactive lesson allows students to discuss reuse with partners, small groups or as a whole class. The post-activity answer key helps check understanding. Use it as an independent work, centre activity, or science lesson to teach environmental consciousness. Extend learning by brainstorming other ways to reduce waste or making recycled art projects.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Distinguish reuse from recycling or discarding
Identify objects that can serve another purpose
Teaching tips
Ask learners to propose one realistic second use for each selected picture before it is glued onto the reuse page.
Skills covered
Sustainability reasoning — Recognise reusable objects
Classification — Sort by potential for another purpose
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Reuse
Second-purpose objects
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