TOO MUCH SOLID WASTE PRODUCED IN FDA

8th Grade Living Environments

Tihira Haffoney

THaffoney@schools.nyc.gov

 

INTRODUCTION

Your principal wants you (the students) to help reduce waste in our school.

You and your group will figure out solutions (new ways) to reduce solid waste (garbage) at FDA1.

(Real-Life Connection)

(Google Slides Presentation Using PPA, PSA or Design a Poster)

 

** Vocabulary** -

Municipal solid waste (MSW): includes all items from homes, schools and businesses that people no longer have any use for. These wastes are commonly called trash or garbage and include items such as food, paper, plastics, textiles, leather, wood, glass, metals, and other wastes.

Public Service Announcement (PSA): is a video created to raise awareness and change public attitudes and behavior toward a social issue.

Public Policy Analyst (PPA):  A public policy is a government action usually intended to deal with a social problem. Every day policies are enacted in your school, city, state, country and throughout the world that will affect your life.

 

Questions to Think About:

Where does all that garbage go after you eat lunch?

Do you know how much solid waste you produce as a student in our school building?

How can you stop the solid waste from taking over in our school?

WATCH THIS VIDEO BELOW WHAT WE DO IN SCHOOL:

Click Here: https://youtu.be/wVMnVktbdZs

At this time students will be broken up in groups each having a role to carry out:

Leader: make sure the group has a clear understanding of tasks to carry out and resolve conflict if any.

Note / Data Recorder: Takes Notes or Records: the amount of different types of garbage being wasted

Time Recorder: Recording how much time good solid waste is thrown out each day after a lunch period.

Photographer: Takes pictures before and after each lunch period of the waste /garbage

Interviewer: Speaking to the principal, other administration teachers, Lunch staff and other classmates about the waste produced in the cafeteria each day

 

GET READY FOR YOUR TASKS:

Task 1 - You and your group will visit to go around the school after each lunch period and observe the solid waste in the trash cans and take notes.

Task 2- You and your group will gather evidence from their data and make a chart of what they observed in 5 days and write a hypothesis about the solid waste problem.

Task 3 - You and your group from your group will be able to create a video using Google slides, PSA or Design a Poster (rubric attached) to solutions or Paper /Digitally and adding the PPA method.

Tasks Rubric: Checking for Understanding

*Please check the rubric to complete your task proving your evidence.

(Student that have accommodations will give extra time for assignment)

 

Level 4

Level 3

Level 2

Level 1

Observations

All observations are written in complete sentences and important /topic related details

Most observations are written in complete sentences and key details

Few details observations are written in sentences and non-specific details

Observations not clear in sentences and details not supportive

Data

All topic data collected to produce a detailed chart

Most data collected to produce a chart

Few data

Collected to produce a chart

 One piece of data collected to produce a chart

Timelessness

All tasks and work completed on time by given date

Most tasks and work completed on time by the given date

Few tasks and work completed on time by the given date

One task and work completed on time by the given date

Accuracy

All group members met, and went to lunchroom to collect data each day for 5 days

Most of group members met, went to lunchroom to collect data each day for 5 days

Few of group members met, went to lunchroom to collect data each day for 5 days

One group member met, went to lunchroom to collect data each day for 5 days

Completion

All tasks are completed all (PPA worksheets)

are completed with evidence, valid supportive data over the 5 days from each group member in their presentation to the principal /class.

Some tasks were complete all (PPA worksheets)

are completed with evidence, valid supportive data over the 5 days from each group member in their presentation to the principal /class.

Few tasks were complete, few (PPA worksheets)

are completed with evidence, valid supportive data over the 5 days from each group member in their presentation to the principal /class.

One task complete, two (PPA worksheets)

are completed with evidence, no supportive data over the 5 days from each group member in their presentation to the principal /class.

 

 

PROCESS:

  1. You and your group will work together with the school’s principal, lunch staff, teachers and classmates. Remember you are in this together as a group and are equally responsible for the group’s research /performance.

 

  1.  Complete each of Public Policy Analyst (PPA) worksheets # 1-6.

 

1.    Define the Problem: Worksheet#1

2.    Gather the Evidence: Worksheet #2

3.    Identify the Causes: Worksheet #3

4.    Evaluate an Existing Policy: Worksheet #4

5.    Develop Solutions: Worksheet #5

6.    Select the Best Solution: Worksheet#6  (Feasibility vs. Effectiveness)

 

  1. During your research, each member will take turns in your group and will collect data/ make observations using a Google doc /Notes after each lunch period over 5 days.  This is where you can use the PPA format and worksheets.

 

  1. Now you and your group will use your information /data/ observations to

create your Google Slide Presentation (no more than 10 slides), Public Service Announcement Video or Poster

(PSA) Video (5 to 8 minutes) or Poster addressing the: Too Much Solid Waste in our school (FDA1)

 

RESOURCES (Group Choice)

Use these videos and an article to help you start your research into solving the problem. You and your group can use the internet as a resource.

Videos:

·         The Farm Link Project: About Us

·        Reduce Food Waste at Schools

·        5th graders track school's food waste, spark change

Article: https://ensia.com/features/school-food-waste-solutions/about solid waste for prior knowledge and resources.

 

 

EVALUATION:

You and your group's work will be graded based upon the rubric.

Bonus Resource: Look up organization “Farmlink

Valid evidence: This organization went to 48 states, collected 50 million pounds of produce recovered equal to 42,000,000 (million) meals for people.

1.    Complete Your PPA worksheets

2.    Check your Rubrics Matching Your Tasks

3.    Create your Google Slides, PSA or Poster

 

 

CONCLUSION:

Group Presentation (Finish Strong)

What platform did you use Google Slides, PSA or Poster?

You and your group completed your research with resources, gathering data, making observations and the use Public Policy Analyst (PPA) format. I hope that you all have seen the importance of “Too Much Solid Waste” in our school FDA and now be a part of a solution to help your school / community as a whole making awareness to all.

 

 

STANDARDS:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.1.A

Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.7

Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

HS-ESS3-4 Earth and Human Activity

Evaluate or refine a technological solution that reduces impacts of human activities on natural systems.

MS-ESS3-4 Earth and Human Activity

Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.