by Amanda | Apr 10, 2025
What can you rescue from the trash at home or at school? Throughout history, Indigenous people have lived on the land and valued it deeply. How might Indigenous cultures view the linear system that’s evolved in our time with all its waste of the Earth’s resources? Do...
by Amanda | Apr 10, 2025
Using an item found in the trash, lost and found or the school yard, have the students create a comic strip with the trash as the main character. Challenge students to imagine different ways in their comic that the item/character might be reused, upcycled, repaired...
by Amanda | Apr 10, 2025
Gather some everyday objects (spoon, hat, pencil, book, etc.). Have the students form a circle to play “This is not a spoon”. Take an everyday object (spoon, pencil, hat) and pass it around the circle. When the student gets the object they say, “This is not a ______...
by Amanda | Apr 10, 2025
Buying and accumulating stuff is such a big part of our culture and lives we rarely question it. But in creating a Loop de Loop world we need to start by asking ourselves if we have too much & how we might manage with less. Materials Required Images of landfills...
by Amanda | Apr 10, 2025
We’ve all been taught how important it is to recycle. And while it remains a key environmental solution, recycling can be expensive and not as effective at reducing waste as we might hope. Plus, it takes a lot of energy to break down materials like plastic or glass...
