A instructional activity where students collect trash, sort, and record the mass in grams. They will use their knowledge of numbers to figure out what category of trash had the most. The biggest idea of the instructional activity is that students will be more likely to reduce their own waste if they understand what a mass of trash looks like.

Concepts

recycling, addition

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Additional Tags

betterlesson, betterlesson: math trash, swbat measure classroom trash in grams and compare the weights and extend that to a year's worth of trash

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice