Parent volunteers to take crushed cans to an aluminum recycling center. Local waste management business literature and pamphlets. Society needs to be educated at an early age to conserve and become environment conscious. This project creates recycling awareness, builds math skills, and reinforces team effort and rewards in a Mini-Corporation. A 100 square grid is used to visually enhance the garbage situation in a simple percentage form.
Students listen to an informative article on the past, present, and future of garbage.
They understand the problem. A Mini-Corporation is created. Students begin bringing in unwanted cans from home. Optional Personnel Director makes out the can crushing schedule. Students decide what to do with the Corporation profits.