Unit Plan Framework

Kendra Abbigayle Vonda

Theme: Recycling
Age Range: 5-6 year olds Unit Goal:
Our unit goal is to teach children about the importance of recycling and how they can use everyday materials, and materials some may call trash, into new and exciting activities.

Common Core Standards/Foundations Met:

ELA.4.30- Use symbols or objects to communicate SC.1.26- Identify plants and animals as living things M.1.36- Match number symbols with amounts FA.1.46- Make rhythmic patterns with objects P.4.1- Releases objects with control FA.1.69- Use a variety of materials to create original work

Changes in the environment:

There will be many changes in the classroom. There will be recycling bins located in the room, new planters that the children will make in class and, there will also be new games and new objects that they will make.

Book List
1. Asimov, I. (1992). Where Does Garbage Go! G. Stevens Children's Books. Briefly examines how we get rid of the things we throw away, describing some of the problems of waste disposal and some of the solutions. 2. Bethel, E. (2008). Michael Recycle. Mascot, N.S.W: Koala. A green-caped crusader saves a town by flying to different places collecting any recyclable items and shows the whole town that it can help make the town see how recycling is helpful. 3. Bullard, L. (2011). Rally for Recycling. Millbrook Press. Earth has a trash problem. How can you help? Join Tyler in learning about recycling. Find out what happens to things when they are recycled. Tyler shares what he was learned about recycling, why it is so important to recycle, how to recycle and what recycled material can make. 4. Green, J. (2002). Why Should I?: Vol. 4. Why Should I Recycle? New York, USA: Barron's. Mr. Jones takes his class to the recycling plant and shows them the process the plant goes through to recycle plastic, paper, card board, etc 5. Wallace, N. E. (2003). Recycle Everyday! New York, United States: Marshall Cavendish. Minna has a recycling assignment and she is going to incorporate her entire family to help her practice good recycling habits, which she use their suggestions for her poster.
6. Noodletools. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/mybib.php?highlight=709769

Reference Page
1. Ana. (2013, October 21). Kid's play space-a mother's journey. Retrieved October 29, 2013, from Puppet Theatre - homemade with love website: http://kidsplayspace.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/ puppet-theatre-homemade-with-love.html How to make a theater you kids can play with, with anything you can find in your classroom or the list on the web page 2. Gupta, A. (n.d.). Toys from trash. Retrieved October 29, 2013, from Bottle Planter website: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/toys/Bottleplanter.html Show how to make a planter out of recycled plastic bottles 3. Ipietoon. (2012). Activities Children Guide's Activities Children. Retrieved October 29, 2013, from Button Tree website: http://www.kiwicrate.com/ projects/Button-Tree/456 Shows you how to make a cool and fun button tree with buttons, sticks, glue, hot glue, poster boars paper, and paintbrushes. 4. Lisa. (n.d.). Crafts for kids blog. Retrieved October 29, 2013, from Tutorial : Paper Plate Ring Toss Game website: http://craftsforkidsblog.com/2013/02/ 1306/ How to make a fun ring toss game with Paper Plates, Paint, Paint Brush, Scissors, Long Cardboard Tube (Cling Wrap or Paper Towel), Sticky Tape, Newspaper. 5. Suja and Deepa. (n.d.). Blog me mom. Retrieved October 29, 2013, from Fall Crafts: Homemade Fall Maracas website: http://www.blogmemom.com/ fall-crafts-homemade-fall-maracas/ A step by step way to make fall maracas with recycled plastic bottles, dried leaves, fallen nuts, and etc. that you can find outside. 6. WordPress and One Mommy. (2013, April 7). There's Just One Mommy sometimes you're just outnumbered... Retrieved October 29, 2013, from Plastic Egg Activity and Some Sweet Math website: http://theresjustonemommy.com/2013/04/ 07/plastic-egg-activity-and-some-sweet-math/ pick out eggs in two different colors with numbers on one half of each egg and make dots on the other half of each egg, using a dry erase marker. The idea was to match the numbers up to the correct number of dots. Also, make bar graphs with jellybeans. Once they had their candy pieces lined up, they filled in each bar graph with crayon. Then talk about which color they had the most and which color they had the least. 7. Noodletools. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/mybib.php?highlight=709769

Making Planters The Children will help make planters that will hang by the windows in the classroom. Materials: water bottles (the amount will depend on how many students in the class), scissors, and thread Cut the bottle about 10 Cm. from the lid, make a hole in lid for draining water, make holes to thread and hang the planters, and hang them by the windows. After the planters are assembled, then the children will help fill the planters with dirt and plant herb seeds. While the seeds grow we will talk about the stages the seeds go through.

Paper Plate Ring Toss The children will make their own ring toss game to play in class and at home. Materials: 5paper plates, paper towel tube, scissors, and 4 different colors of paint. The children will paint the paper plates, and cut out the middles of 4 of them. Then with the fifth plate they will tape the paper towel tube to it. After the paint dries they will then toss the rings they made at the tube to try to make them onto the tube.

Egg Math The children will have to match the top of the egg with the number wrote on it to the bottom of the egg that will have the number of dots drawn on it. Materials: old Easter eggs, markers The teacher will write the numbers 0-10 on the top of 10 separate eggs, and dots representing the numbers on the bottoms on the eggs. After the eggs have their numbers and dots the children will then have to match the correct tops and bottoms

Physical Math Activity Science Activity

Cumulating activities-

Recycling
Shoe Box Theater

Music & Science Physical & Art

The Children will help assemble a shoe box theater, and make their own puppets. Then they will create their own stories, or tell their version of the stories read in class.
Materials: Paint, shoe box, Popsicle sticks, ribbon, glue, toilet paper rolls, yarn, markers, and construction paper The children will help construct the shoe box theater with paint, glue, ribbon, markers, Popsicle sticks, and the shoe box. After we construct the theater they will make their own puppets with the toilet paper rolls, markers, yarn, and construction paper. After their puppets are made they can then begin putting on their shows.

Art & Science

Literacy Activity Art Button Trees The children will go on a nature walk to collect items to make their trees with. Materials: paper, buttons, glue, and materials found outdoors While on the walk the children will collect items such as leaves, sticks, rocks, and other materials. Then while back in the classroom they will construct their tree trunks with the materials they collected, and then they will add their button leaves. Music Homemade Maracas The children will construct their own musical maracas out of water bottles Materials: empty water bottles, rice, leaves, sticks, and paint As a class we will go on a nature walk to get the leaves and sticks. Then when back in the classroom they will fill their water bottles with rice, leaves, and sticks. Then with the remaining leaves they will paint them and glue them on the outside of their bottles. After they are finished they can make their own music.