Worksheets Recycling
Worksheets Recycling
Match each product with the kind of natural resource it comes from:
plastic bottle
ROCKS /MINERALS
leader jacket
can
ANIMALS
glass bottle
PRODUCT RESOURCE
NATURAL
T-shirt
COW
wool sweater
TREE
BAUXITE
book
plastic bottle
OIL
COTTON PLANT
leader jacket
SHEEP
glass bottle
can
SAND
PLASTIC
METAL
GLASS
RUBBER
2.- Find in your classroom objects made of the materials below. Draw the objects and name them:
WOOD
PAPER
PLASTIC
METAL
GLASS
NAME: DATE:
Three its a magic number yes it is, its a magic number Because two times three is six and three times six is eighteen and the eighteenth letter in the alphabet is R Weve got three Rs we're going to talk about today Weve got to learn to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (4 times) If you're going to the market to buy some juice Youve got to bring your own bags and you'll learn to reduce your waste Weve got to learn to reduce. And if your brother or your sisters got some cool clothes you could try them on before you buy some of those reuse Weve got to learn to reuse And if the first two Rs dont work out and youve got to make some trash. Dont throw it out recycle Weve got to learn to recycle Weve got to learn to Reduce Reuse Recycle (4 times) Because three its a magic number yes it is, its a magic number.
NAME: DATE: MATERIALS AND RECYCLING 1.- Guess how long takes for each item to decompose in nature:
paper bag
plastic bag
2.- Circle in green the natural resources that are renewable and circle in red the natural resources that are non-renewable: Draw a danger sign to those renewable resources we need to take special care of.
OIL GOLD
COW
WHEAT
WATER
BAUXITE
COTTON PLANT
SHEEP
DIAMOND
TREE
SAND
FISHES
Banana Peel: 3-4 weeks Paper Bag: 1 month Cardboard: 2 months Wool Sock : 1 year Tinned Steel Can: 50 yea Aluminium Can: 200-500 years (But if recycled, it can be reused within 6 weeks!) Disposable Diapers: 500 years (closer to 25-100 years) Plastic Bags : 20-1000 years (most will be crumbled or incinerated) Plastic Jug: 1 million years (polymers break down within 100 years) Glass : 1 million years (silica shards, like sand, are a stable molecule) Styrofoam: 1 million years (most will be powdered into grains within 100 years)
How long will the natural resources last if we keep extracting them at todays pace: Aluminum: 131 years Coal: 150 years Cobalt: 112 years Copper: 31 years Gold: 17 years Iron: 79 years Lead: 22 years Natural Gas: 64 years Nickel: 40 years Palladium: 15 years Petroleum: 42 years Platinum: 56 years Silver: 13 years Tin: 17 years Uranium: 32 years Zinc: 17 years
Cut all this wastes and glue them in the risht place.
newspaper
paper sheet
egg shell
kitchen paper
food leftovers
leaves
aluminium foil
microwave
used oil
sofa
CDs
mobile
pen
cardboard band aids cork top jar top wet wipe box
aluminium can
paper bag
banana peel
wool socks
plastic bag
can
glass bottle
plastic bottle
diapers
ashes
metal pipe
yogurt cup
coconut shell
NAME: DATE: PILE: RECYCLING 1.- Write four or five sentences telling where should each waist go:
Where does it go? green container grey container goes to the (waist name)
(singular)
blue container yellow container brown container recycling center batteries container
go to the
(plural)
2.- Make 5 sentences telling of what materials are things in class made of. All the materials should appear at least once in one of your sentences. What material is made of? paper is made of (Product name)
(singular)
are made of
(plural)
NAME: DATE:
come from
(plural)
Cardboard box
1000 years
Can
3 weeks
Plastic bottle
50 years