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 2 - Getting into the community.

 
 
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.
Plan questions and observations for excursion
Children develop and present arguments about Clean Up Australia Day.
Children consider related activities that could be undertaken with Clean Up Australia Day.

English

Processes and Strategies
Students select from a repertoire of processes and strategies by reflecting on their understanding of the way language works for a variety of purposes in a range of contexts.

Writing
Students write for a range of purposes and in a range of forms using conventions appropriate to audience, purpose and context.
Conduct an investigation of a community issue and offer suggestions for action
Choose to present From Clean Up to Fix Up information in a particular form.
Plan, draft, revise, edit and publish writing forms to present their Clean Up Australia advertising material
 

 

Purpose

This series of activities provide the opportunity for students to:

  Describe the areas in the site that are being affected by rubbish
  Identify issues that contribute to the rubbish problem in the environment
  Understand that rubbish affects the environment.

 

Preparation

  Send a letter home to parent/caregivers outlining details of the class visit to the site chosen for the Clean Up to Fix Up activities.

 

Procedure

1. List areas in the local community that the class think need a 'clean up'. Consider the list of Clean Up sites that have been tackled on Clean Up Day in your area in the past. (Resource Sheet 5)

  Brainstorm ideas about how children could help fix up these areas so that they don't need to be cleaned as often.
  Write the ideas on butcher's paper.
  Select one of these areas as the focus area for your Clean Up Australia Day activities.

2. Plan and visit a site to inspect it and complete Q1 - Q5 of the "Clean Up to Fix Up" Survey. (Resource Sheet 4)

3. List rubbish that students might find on site. Brainstorm safety rules that will apply during the clean up day activities. For example:

  Do not pick up broken glass.
  Do wear sunburn cream, a hat and sturdy pair of gloves.

4. Discuss the type of rubbish the children actually find at the site.

  where might it come from?
  are there other problems that need to be fixed as well? eg. no bins, vandalism, ugly.
  was the site always like this?

5. Set up classroom committees to address the issue of rubbish at the selected site. Also work in partnership with other classes to ensure that all areas of the school grounds are cleaned up on Clean Up Australia School's Day Friday 3rd March 2000.

 

Variations

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

Brainstorm how the class could find out what the community looked like in the past. Research in the Local Studies Library or interview local Senior Citizens.
Organise a From Clean Up to Fix Up display for the local library.

Next Activity 3 - From Clean Up to Fix Up Survey.