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. Field trips are generally paid for in full and another portion is given to charity. They become actively involved in recycling by taking part in conservation, understanding how greater productivity is rewarded, and reaping the benefits of saving garbage for a better America. The time has come to begin educating students to a new way of life.