This document provides a suggested lesson plan about recycling centered around the book "What If? A book about recycling". The plan incorporates geography, science, art, and citizenship topics. It includes ideas for activities like sculpting with recycled objects, studying coastal erosion, and role playing traveling with recycled materials. The overall goal is to explore recycling and sustainability through the lens of a fictional story.

1. Starting point: What if? A book about recycling
CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING & DIVERSITY
GEOGRAPHY
PLACE & SCALE
• Coastal location
• Decide on a real place where this event
could have happened – photographs & maps
o What is this place like?
o How do I feel about this place?
o How is this place linked to other
places?
Curriculum Links
ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION
ART
(including ESD)
• Sculpture using recycled objects
• Waste, safe disposal, recycling
• Shipwrecks, salvage, safe disposal
• Finite resources
• Recycling in school/ energy saving schemes
• Looking at traditional societies that regard the
earth as sacred – take only what is sustainable –
GLOBAL FOOTPRINTS
CHANGING HUMAN and PHYSICAL
SCIENCE
PROCESSES
• Habitats – sea
• Coastal erosion
• Environment
(How the water wears away the cliffs and rocks
• Materials (properties) e.g. in the recycling
and reshapes them)
plant a magnet is used to take away the
• Sorting activity – pebbles from the beach – sharp
bottle tops
pebbles, round pebbles, glass pebbles etc
• Video/ movie clip – the power of the sea • Materials – new glass from old
• Energy
LOCATION & SPACE CITIZENSHIP/ PHSE
• Where could the bottle float to? (Use of • Message in a bottle/ in the post (the way we are
maps, globes, Google Earth). linked to other people and places around the
• Use Google Earth, Live Local, Google Maps, world)
Globe Tossing • Internet – real stories – message in a bottle
• Role Play activity – travelling to distant • Finite resources
• Recycling in school/ energy saving schemes
places
• Looking at traditional societies that regard the
• Bee Bots – where in the world – travel mat
earth as sacred – take only what is sustainable –
GLOBAL FOOTPRINTS
INTERDEPENDENCE & CONNECTEDNESS There are three books in the WONDERWISE
• Message in a bottle/ in the post (the way we series from FRANKLIN WATTS that would
provide a useful starting point for a KS1 & lower
are linked to other people and places around
KS2 plan focused on GEOGRAPHY & SCIENCE.
the world) All of the books in the series are by: Mick
• Internet – real stories – message in a bottle Manning & Brita Grandström.
• What’s Up? 0 7496 5691 3
• What’s Under the Bed? 0 7496 5685 9
• What If? 0 7496 5692 1
Resource sheet developed by Wendy North wnorthgeography.org.uk 25/07/2009