From Clean Up to Fix Up

Introduction
Helping you identify your clean up project

Activities
1. Why have a Clean Up Day?

2. Getting out into the community

3. From Clean Up to Fix Up Survey

Resources
1. Clean Up Day Headlines

2. Cleaning Up Australia Fact Sheet

3. Typical Clean Up Day Site

4. Clean Up to Fix Up Kids Survey (for kids to complete)

5. Clean Up to Fix Up Registration Form (for teachers to complete)

 

Activity 1 - Why have a Clean Up Day?

 
 
Learning Area Outcomes How this activity links to outcomes

Society and the Environment
1. Investigation, Communication, Participation.

Students investigate the ways people interact with each other and with their environments in order to make informed decisions and implement relevant social action
Identify different points of view about cleaning up public rubbish.
Identify relationships such as cause and effect.

English

1. Students understand that the way language is used varies according to context.

6. Students speak with purpose and effect in a wide range of contexts.

7. Students view a wide range of visual texts with purpose, understanding and critical awareness.
Discuss the ways that people with differing attitudes might interpret Clean Up headlines.
Speak confidently to a range of audiences.
Recognise different purposes and audiences in the mass media.
 


Purpose

This series of activities provide the opportunity for students to:

  Discuss the concept of Clean Up Australia Day
  Identify waste issues that affect areas in the local community
  Predict what would happen if waste was not disposed of appropriately

 

Preparation

  Collect newspaper headings or photocopy newspaper headings from Resource Sheet 1 for student groups.
  Prepare butchers paper and large marker pens.

 

Procedure

1. Provide students with samples of newspaper headings that describe Clean Up Australia Day activities in previous years. (Resource Sheet 1).

  Discuss the language used in the headings. Is there a particular purpose in choosing the lead words?
  In groups discuss whether the students have participated in Clean Up Day before?
  Why has a day been developed that focuses on volunteers getting out into the community to clean up?
  Where does all the rubbish come from?

 

2. Read the Facts Sheet (Resource Sheet 2) to find out more about the sorts of rubbish found around Australia on Clean Up Australia Day. Discuss

  What are the most common types of rubbish found on Clean Up Day?
  How many of these rubbish items would students expect to find in the school playground, waterways, parkland, roadside etc?
  Why is it important to remove the rubbish?

 

Variations

Create an advertising campaign to highlight rubbish issues in your school using posters and a television or radio commercial.

  Create a Clean Up Australia Day theme song or poem and present it to the school assembly to advertise your Clean Up Australia Day activities.
  Research the beginnings of Clean Up Australia Day. Try the Internet site www.cleanup.com.au

 

Next: Activity 2 - Getting out into the community.