(CNSNews.com) – The Environmental Protection Agency has published a teaching guide designed to teach adult non-English speakers the language with a curriculum on environmentalism, including a homework assignment telling students to “observe” their neighbors, school and workplace to see if recycling is taking place.
In the “Teach English, Teach About the Environment,” under the heading “Civic Integration Activity” in the beginner’s level Lesson Plan One on recycling, the following questions are asked:
- Ask students to observe whether their neighbors recycle their waste.
- Ask students to observe whether the school or their workplace recycles waste material.
- Ask at the following class what they observed.
In the same lesson, the homework – or “home support activity” – is to calculate how much each student adds to the “waste stream.”
“Have students weigh themselves on their bathroom scale at home,” the guide states. “Then have them weigh themselves with the bag of household garbage thrown out each day. Multiply the weight difference by seven days, 30 days, and 365 days to get a sense of the amount of garbage generated by each student.”
Read more at CNS News. By Penny Starr.
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