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stations, letting the local community know about your school’s participation in the Waste-Free Lunch Challenge. • Use the sample letter to parents (page 18) to send a letter home before the Challenge notifying parents about the event. This letter includes information about waste-free lunches and how they can support the program. • Put up a poster (page 54) on the school noticeboard where parents will notice it when visiting the school. • Make announcements (page 23) leading up to the Waste-Free Lunch Challenge to let staff and students know the dates and serve as a reminder for them to bring waste-free lunches all week. • Set-up a demonstration table with examples of waste-free lunch “do’s and “don’ts”. Provide an opportunity for students to make suggestions about ways to make waste-free lunches. 12
COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE During the Waste-Free Lunch Challenge week, your classroom or school will try to go waste-free for the entire week. Please note that conducting two waste audits (1 before the challenge and 1 during the challenge) are the only compulsory activities for classrooms/schools entering the Challenge. As a result, schools can either plan the date for the second waste audit or make it a surprise. Students try to go waste-free all week long. Classrooms or schools can conduct visual scans to engage students in the monitoring process. To conduct a visual scan, simply layout all bags of material, ask your students to observe and assess their contents. On the day of your “waste-free” Tip: If your school produces very small amounts of waste, use the resource page 46 to tally your results. audit, you will follow the same steps as you did in the normal day audit. Waste audit steps can be found on page 38 (classroom audit) and page 40 (school audit). As with the normal day audit, you may want to take photos of your students. Optional - You may also like to hold your own in-school contest to see which classroom generates the least amount of garbage or which class had the most students participating. A student certificate is available on page 55. 13 Analyzing the results As part of the competition, complete the waste audit on a normal day and then each day during the week-long Challenge. To analyze results: 1. Download the Waste Audit Worksheet Tool from the Teachers Resources page of the WFLC website. 2. Enter your results into the appropriate sheets and follow the detailed instruction on page 43.
Page 1 and 2: Teacher’s Planning Guide
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents WASTE REDUCTION W
Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTION This guide was develop
Page 7 and 8: Who can participate? All schools (e
Page 9 and 10: GETTING STARTED - BEFORE THE CHALLE
Page 11: have all the necessary materials an
Page 15 and 16: Which category should I nominate my
Page 17 and 18: PRE-CHALLENGE RESOURCES Attachment
Page 19 and 20: WASTE-FREE LUNCH TIPS • Get child
Page 21 and 22: Attachment Four: Sample School Medi
Page 23 and 24: Attachment Five: Sample Announcemen
Page 25 and 26: Attachment Six: Waste Reduction and
Page 27 and 28: Plastics/Aluminum • Recycling pla
Page 29 and 30: Videos: How does a Material Recover
Page 31 and 32: RESOURCES DURING THE CHALLENGE Atta
Page 33 and 34: Ministry of Education’s 2011 Envi
Page 35 and 36: The assessment discussion points ma
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Page 39 and 40: Your weight plus the container - 59
Page 41 and 42: After the Waste Audit 1. Select stu
Page 43 and 44: Attachment 14: Waste Audit Tool (EX
Page 45 and 46: The final page of the excel tool
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