Litter Topic: A week of cross-curricular lesson plans

The Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Powerpoints here will help support a topic about the environment, special project about litter or a sustainability week within schools. They have been created with KS2 children in mind (year 3/4 onwards) and they are curriculum linked (see individual Lesson Plans), but you can easily adapt them for KS1 or KS3 classes.

Lesson 1 is an introduction to Litter.

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Lesson 1 – Introduction to Litter – PSHE/Topic/Sustainability – Powerpoint

Lesson 1 -Litter Quiz – PSHE/Topic/Sustainability – Powerpoint

Lesson 1 – Introduction to Litter – PSHE/Topic/Sustainability – Lesson Plan

Lesson 2 is an Art activity where children can use items that would be litter of rubbish (found objects) to make some collage or sculptural art.

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Lesson 2 – Litter Art – Art – Powerpoint

Lesson 2 – Litter Art – Art – Lesson Plan

Lesson 3 is an activity where potatoes are turned into plastic. This is to help children understand that plastic doesn’t have to made of oil.

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Lesson 3 – Making potato plastic (Science) – Instructions

Lesson 3 – Making potato plastic (Science) – Lesson Plan

Lesson 4 is a Geography activity where pupils will learn about the water cycle and litter.

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Lesson 4 – The Water Cycle and Litter (Geography) – Powerpoint

Lesson 4 – The Water Cycle and Litter (Geography) – Lesson Plan

Lesson 5 is a Geography and Science activity where pupils will learn ocean currents, gyres and the problem of plastic in our oceans.

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Lesson 5 – The Great Ocean Plastic Problem – new solutions (Science/Geography) – Powerpoint

Lesson 5 – Oceans, gyres and continents  (Science/Geography) – Worksheet

Lesson 5 – The Great Ocean Plastic Problem – new solutions (Science/Geography) – Lesson Plan