Look at this clean scrap from our classroom. Where should it go when we are finished with it: the recycling bin, the compost, or could we use it again?

Today we will look carefully at clean scraps from our classroom, sort them, and agree one action that helps our school and our planet.

We have three helpful paths for clean waste. Remember them as short labels:

Reuse: use it again first (a jam jar for pencils).

Recycle: send clean material away to be made into something new.

Compost: food and garden scraps that can become soil for plants.

In groups, look carefully at the clean classroom waste on your tray. Sort each item into recycle, compost or reuse. Talk about why each item goes where it does. If you are not sure, put it in the "not sure" pile and we will decide together.

On your Investigation Journal page, record three items from your group's tray sort while your decisions are still fresh. For each one, write or draw whether it goes to recycle, compost or reuse, and give a short why.

Now the tricky ones.

The board has the items our groups were not sure about. Call out recycle, compost or reuse, and say why. The screen asks one yes-or-no question at a time to help us decide.