Classroom activity to teach Detroit students how to reduce, reuse and recycle through science, engineering, art and creativity.
Green Living Science (GLS) will be creating hands-on learning kits, which will be used in 15 3rd grade science classrooms in Detroit as part of GLS’ Reduce, Reuse Recycle curriculum. Arts and Scraps will design the learning kit and use volunteers for assembly. Materials to fill the kits will be chosen based on items that can be recycled at Detroit’s drop off facility, Recycle Here!
The ioby funds will be used to purchase materials to create 600 classroom kits. With direction from GLS educators, the students will be asked to use the items in the kits to create a recycling machine. GLS educators will meet with the students receiving the lessons 4 times. The first is part of an all-school assembly to go over the three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle). The second is the Materials lesson, where the kits will be used, the third lesson is focused on Energy and the fourth lesson is focused on Pollution.
Similiar to all of the kits Arts and Scraps create, there is no right answer to how the students assemble the kits. They are able to use their imagination and learn about process and how to make things work in creative ways. The lesson uses engineering and science basics to get students thinking about how to begin to solve real community problems.
This project will be addressing two main challenges.