The Recycling Rascals are a group of college students on a mission to educate students at Kempton Elementary School and the local community about recycling. Their goals are to increase recycling awareness and amounts, get press coverage of their efforts, educate others about what can be recycled, and teach students and their families to recycle at home. They held lessons and activities for each grade level at the school to spread their message in an age-appropriate way. Over several weeks, they tracked the weight of recycled materials collected from each classroom and saw increases. Their project was successful in raising recycling awareness.

2. Mission Statement
 We are college students who are on a mission to
spread the word about recycling throughout
Kempton Elementary and the New Bedford
community. As the Recycling Rascals, we are here
to encourage “Kempton’s little rascals” how to
properly recycle, reuse, and reduce paper products.
We are eager to make recycling enjoyable and easy
to apply to their everyday lives.

3. Our Goals
 To increase the awareness of recycling which will be measured
by how many times the recycling bins have to get emptied per
month
 To get the community involved by getting at least 1 press release
in a local newspaper about the efforts we are making at the
Kempton school
 We would like to feel confidant explaining to other people which
products are able to be recycled
 We hope to educate not only the students but also their guardians
and faculty to recycle when at home not just in the school
 To bring all of our skills together and work as one team to
complete our project and goals which will result in a good grade

4. Community Partner
New Bedford’s
Kempton
Elementary
School
K-5th Grade

5. Team Roles

6. Book Fair
 Handed out flyers and recyclable pencils to students and
parents.
 Explained our project and answered questions they had
 Had a signup sheet for families who needed recycle bins
 Community Involvement

7. Kindergarten
 Visual Learners
 Lesson:
 Brought in 20+ items
and asked if they
can/cannot be
recycled
 Activity:
 Decorated maracas

8. 1st Grade
 Needed to be
structured
 Lesson:
 Played Jeopardy
using simple
questions
 Activity:
 Created piggy banks

9. 2nd Grade
 Very interested in
learning more about
recycling
 Lesson:
 Jeopardy game
 Activity:
 Piggy banks

10. 3rd Grade
 Very creative when
decorating their CD’s
and answering
questions
 Lesson:
 Jeopardy game
 Activity:
 Created fish and
other creatures using
old recyclable CD’s

11. 4th Grade
 5th grade is small so we combined 4th grade with
them
 Lesson:
 Jeopardy game using harder questions
 Activity:
 Ran out of time
 Asked the teacher to create a page for a book that
we put together to donate to the school

12. 5th Grade
 Small class, combined their  Recycle
weight with the principal
 While we waited for the 4th  Empty out blue bins when
grade we had them create filled
“RECYCLE” acronyms to put
into the book
 Cans
 Lesson:
 You can save the earth
 Jeopardy game
 Activity:  Community
 Recycle acronyms
 Landfill
 Created a page for the
book
 Electricity
 By: Devin Ferreira

13. Winner of Contest
 Popsicles
 Recyclable Pencils
 Printed Awards

14. Weight Each Week
K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Grade Grade Grade Grade Grade
Week 1 1 pound 3 5 4 6 3
pounds pounds pounds pounds pounds
Week 2 3 2 55 88 20 20
Week 3 70 20 73 70 100 29
Week 4
Total:

15. Graph of Weight

16. The Press
 The South Coast
Times wrote an article
about our project
 Sustainability

17. Problems Faced
 Students brining in
paper products from
home
 Newspapers and
magazines weigh
more than paper
 Teachers being more
competitive than
others

18. Conclusion
 Made sure everyone
had a blue bin in their
classroom and at
home
 Helped the students to
become more aware of
recycling not only at
school but at home as
well