This topic draws inspiration from the document "Greening curriculum guidance Teaching and learning for climate action" and provides a framework for incorporating the principles of green education and climate awareness into the teaching of pupils in the 1st to 5th grade of primary schools.

The head of this theme is focused on building pro-ecological behavior for first-year students. It is important to introduce them to topics such as recycling, composting and ecological shopping in a playful and comprehensible form, which corresponds to their age.

Importance of recycling and composting

• Recycling:
  • Discussion: What does the word "recycling" mean? What can we recycle? Why is recycling important? (we save trees, save energy, protect nature).
  • Visual aids: Sorting containers (paper, plastic, glass), images of products made from recycled materials.
  • Games and activities: Waste sorting game, making simple objects from recycled materials (eg bookmarks from magazines, bird feeder from a plastic bottle).
• Composting:
  • Discussion: What is compost? Where do we throw fruit and vegetable waste? How does it become fertilizer?
  • Visual aids: Pictures of compost, demonstration of composting in the school garden (if possible).
  • Games and activities: Joint establishment of compost in the school garden (if possible), sorting biological waste in the classroom into a prepared container.

Ecological purchases - choosing products with respect to the environment

• Discussion: What does it mean to "buy green"? Why is it important to choose products that do not burden the environment?
• Examples:
  • Shopping with your own bag: Why is it better to use your own bag instead of plastic bags?
  • Selection of products with an ecological label: Searching for ecological labels on product packaging (e.g. organic farming).
  • Shopping for local food: Why is it better to eat fruits and vegetables that have grown in our surroundings?
• Games and activities: A game about a store where children buy organic products, creating posters with the theme of organic shopping.

Saving paper and other materials

• Discussion: Why is it important to save paper? What is paper made of? How else can we save at school and at home (water, electricity, toys)?
• Practical advice:
  • Printing from both sides of the paper.
  • Using envelopes repeatedly.
  • Turning off the lights when leaving the room.
  • Closing water taps.
• Games and activities: Paper saving competition in the classroom, making toys from waste materials (e.g. puppets from toilet paper rolls).

Creative activities:

• Production of toys from waste materials:
  • Children can use their imagination and make toys from various waste materials (e.g. toy cars from cardboard boxes, animals from toilet paper rolls).
• Games with an environmental theme:
  • A waste sorting game using sorting bins.
  • A game to save endangered animals.
  • Creation and dramatization of stories with an ecological message.

Note: It is important to emphasize that the mentioned activities and examples are only a topic and can be adapted to the specific conditions of the school and the age of the children.

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