Lesson Plan: What Should Happen to My Garbage?
Grades 5-12
Through the surprising and engaging story of a doomed trash barge named Mobro, students are introduced to solid waste disposal and waste management strategies, and will examine their lunchroom garbage and how it decays. They will make proposals for alternative methods of disposing of waste.
Students will learn concepts of the properties of matter, the particle nature of matter and the conservation of matter. This lesson strengthens the science and engineering practices of asking questions, planning investigations, developing models, designing solutions and arguing from evidence. Students will work with the crosscutting concepts of patterns, cause and effect and energy and matter.
Some ideas in this lesson were inspired by the Garbage Unit by NYU SAIL Research Lab.
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