Preparation: Gather items from home/school that can be reused ie. old t-shirts, broken toys, plastic bottles. You will also use these items for the Sculpture Gallery activity.
Play: Have students line up with one end being the “production/start” and the other the “landfill.” Hand “resources” (any items found around home/school—the more the better) one at a time along the production line. After a few items, speed up. When all the items have been passed along, pause and reflect on the pile of resources in the landfill.
- Is there another solution?
- How does nature work differently?
- How might traditional Indigenous practices approach resources differently?
- What else can we do with our resources?
- Guide students’ thinking — instead of a line, what if you made a circle?
Have students form a circle. Hand resources along the production circle one at a time. Speed up. Pause and reflect about what it means that there is no landfill with a circle.
- How is this different from the line?
- Which is better for the environment and why?