By Sara Bueno

1. The 3 R’s: Reduce, reuse and recycle.
WE ARE GOING GREEN

2.  Title of the Lesson: We are going green.
 Date: From 08/01/2018 until the end of the
course.
 Unit of Study:The 3 R’s: Reduce, reuse and
recycle.
 Level and group:Third grade of primary
school.
 Number of children: 16.
LESSON PLAN

3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This is the continuation of our
sociocultural project on the importance of
taking care of our environment.
• Previously we worked on the types of pollution
and different ways to avoid it.
We work on this project one session each
week with small groups of students of
this grade but of different classes.

4. CONTENT LEARNING:
 Identify problems and
solutions in everyday life.
 Respect the environment.
 Know “The 3 R’s rule” and
putting them into practice.
 Know the roles of people in
world changes, recovery
and conservation of the
natural environment.
LANGUAGE LEARNING:
 Ask questions.
 Talk: dialogues and
interviews.
 Obtain information through
conversations.
 Learn new vocabulary about
recycle, reuse and reduce.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

5.  Linguistic and audio-visual.
 Artistic and cultural.
 Information handling and digital competence.
 Learning to learn.
 Autonomy, initiative and decision taking.
 Knowledge of and interaction with the natural world.
 Social and civic.
COMPETENCIES INVOLVED

6.  Identify problems and solutions in everyday life.
 Respect the environment.
 Know “The 3 R’s rule” and put it on practice.
 Know the role of people in the changes, the recovery and
conservation of the natural environment.
ASSESSMENT

7. Description
Watch the video-song “We
are going green”, and write
on the blackboard new words
that they discover when they
listen the song, and together,
they try to find what each
word means.
Session 1
 Time: 45’
 Interaction: T-Ss and
SsSs
 Skills: L, W,S, R, I
 Materials :
 Digital board, video
song
 (http://www.youtube
.com/watch?v=8DJ4
5Yc3urg)
 Tablets and the
recycling guide
(http://www.recyclin
g-
guide.org.uk/rrr.html
).
LESSON
DEVELOPM
ENT

8. Description
Then, give the students the
song-lyrics with missing
words and they must
complete it.
 Interaction: S-S
and Ss-Ss
 Skills: L, W,S, R, I
 Materials :
 Sheet with the
lyric of the song
with missing
words

9. Description
Finally, when they have all
the lyrics, they sing and learn
the song.
 Interaction: Ss-Ss
 Skills: L,S, R, I
 Materials :
 Video song ,
digital board and
sheet with the
lyric of the song.

10. Description
Write “The 3 R’s” on the
board and explain them that
it’s an important way to take
care the planet (remember
the song). The students try to
discover what each “R” is.
Then, write “Reduce, Reuse
and Recycle” on the board.
Session 2
 Time: 45’
 Interaction: T-Ss
and SsSs
 Skills: L,S, I
 Materials : The
digital board.
LESSON
DEVELOPM
ENT

11. Description
Divide the students in little
groups and ask what we can
do each one in their normal
life to get it and make a list.
 Interaction: T-Ss
and SsSs
 Skills: L, W,S, I
 Materials : A
paper for each
group and a pen.

12. Description
Finally, each group show their
ideas to the other groups,
they write the best ones on
the board and talk about the
importance of putting into
practice these ideas in their
life.
 Interaction: T-Ss
and SsSs
 Skills: L, W, S, R,
I
 Materials : The
student’s papers
and a digital
board.

13. Description
The students make three posters, one
for each “R” and write on it each list
that they did in the last class and then
put the posters on the hallway mural.Session 3
 Time: 45’
 Interaction: T-Ss
and SsSs
 Skills: L,S, I
 Materials :
Cardboards,
colors, images
related to
recycling, etc.
LESSON
DEVELOPM
ENT

14. Description
Each day, at the beginning of the
classes they can explain to their
companions what they use “The 3 R’s
rule” in their normal life (at home,
with friends, etc.).
During the entire
course…
 Time: 10’
 Interaction: T-Ss
and SsSs
 Skills: L,S, I
LESSON
DEVELOPM
ENT

15.  In this unit, I work as a guide that helps students find
the answers to the questions we propose for themselves.
 I only give them the resources they need to obtain it on
their own.
 The assessment is continuous and students also self-
assess.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS