Let’s Save Mother Nature: activities on national recyclable resources week
National Recyclable Resources Week can is a great opportunity to engage in environmental activities. Reading and book-related activities are appropriate means of teaching the importance of protecting trees and jungles, rivers and seas, recycling and other conservation practices.
Below, you can read the experience of a Read with Me tutor from Qeshm Island. This creative tutor used the book “The Emperor Potato IV” to design environmental activities for her students. She has read-aloud this book through four sessions, allocating each session to one of these subjects:
Plastics and recycling
Air pollution
Water pollution
Drought and water use
Scroll down for a pictorial report of the activities:
First Session
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A globe wrapped in plastic, tree branches with dangling plastic bags, a nature suffocating under plastics.
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Planting seeds on the map of Qeshm Island, in hope of a greener future.
Second Session
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Potatoes put in cups of water to sprout, as symbols of the earth.
Third Session
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A demonstration of how our waste can enter the systems of turtles and endanger their lives.
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An experiment with coke, milk and lemon juice to depict polluted water vs. clean water
Fourth Session
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