Get involved and join The Action Pack!
Our rubbish can harm animals on land and in the oceans, and collecting new materials instead of recycling old ones often destroys animal habitats. Recycling helps the environment and protects wildlife.
Help to make our world a better place by finding out all about recycling with your pupils, then completing one or both of our missions, which challenge pupils to create an animal character, so that adults can be persuaded to recycle more, and recycle better.
The resources, developed in partnership with teachers, are flexible and can be used together or individually.
Starter resources:
Recycling in your area
Use these classroom resources to help your students explore the recycling practices in your area.
Interactive poster kit
Create a customised poster showing what can be recycled in your area.
Introduction to
recycling:
Key Stages One & Two
Explore what everyone – including children – can do to make the world a better place, what recycling is, and how to do it in this PowerPoint lesson, with versions for both KS1 and KS2 pupils.
Introduction to recycling:
Key Stage One
PowerPoint with integrated teachers’ notes and activity sheets.
Introduction to recycling:
Key Stage Two
PowerPoint with integrated teachers’ notes and activity sheets.
Mission 1:
Action-packed posters
More time?
Our Mission 1 PowerPoint guides pupils through making a recycling poster. It helps them to think about their audience, create a memorable character and write a motivating message.
Less time?
Instead of the PowerPoint, run through the Mission 1 student brief, which has key quick-start information.
Mission 1:
Action-packed
posters
PowerPoint with integrated teachers’ notes and activity sheets.
Mission 2:
Lights, camera, Action Pack!
More time?
Our Mission 2 PowerPoint guides pupils step-by-step through making a film to persuade grown-ups to recycle more and recycle better. Pupils invent inspiring characters out of recyclable materials, write a script (or adapt our template) and create their films.
Less time?
Skip the PowerPoint and use the quick-start student brief sheet to get pupils started.
Mission 2:
Lights, camera,
Action Pack!
PowerPoint with integrated teachers’ notes and activity sheets.
An engaging presentation that captures pupils' attention, with cross-curricular opportunities, including developing and writing a character profile and personification. There are strong links to the English curriculum.
EMMA O’DEA – Y2/Y6 TEACHER, ABBEY GATES PRIMARY SCHOOL
By showing and explaining what happens to everyday items, the pupils are able to picture the whole story behind what happens to recycled goods.
LAURA CLOW – ASSISTANT HEADTEACHER, CHRIST CHURCH CHORLEYWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL
Use our handy recycling locator to find out what you can and can't recycle at home
Recycling Locator
Helping you recycle and pass on your unwanted items for re-use
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