Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Match

Kindergarten ScienceRecycling3 pages

About this worksheet

Three words, reduce, reuse and recycle, are matched to six everyday pictures on this 3-page kindergarten sheet. A key at the top gives each word a short meaning: use less, use again, make into new things. Students circle the right word for turning off the tap, using both sides of the paper, a jar as a pencil cup, a shoebox as a toy bed, a can in the recycling bin and newspapers in the recycling bin. Page 2 asks for a drawing of one way to help at school and the sentence I can ___. It supports NGSS K-ESS3-3, and the key gives all six answers.

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Curriculum objectives covered

K-ESS3-3

โ€œCommunicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.โ€

Page 1 names six ways to cut waste, and page 2 has students draw and write one of their own at school.

What's inside this worksheet

Three Words

An icon and a short meaning for each word: Reduce is use less, Reuse is use again and Recycle is make into new things.

Match the Pictures

Six pictures, each with a sentence. Students circle Reduce, Reuse or Recycle for each one.

How I Can Help at School

A large drawing box for one way to reduce, reuse or recycle at school, and a line to finish I can ___.

Answers

Items 1 and 2 are Reduce, 3 and 4 are Reuse, 5 and 6 are Recycle, with sample sentences for page 2.

How teachers use it

Mime the pictures

Mime the six sentences and ask students to call out reduce, reuse or recycle before anyone circles. The tap and the shoebox bed get the most laughs.

Class list

Collect the page 2 sentences and read them aloud as a list of ways to help at school. Post the best three by the recycling bin.

Take-home task

Send page 2 home and ask students to find one way to reuse something. Drawings come back with a story attached.

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