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At the end of this page is our final RFL report.


 * Activity - Planning a rubbish reduction event **

The purpose of this activity is to design an event that promotes and minimises rubbish. This has particular relevance for the Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge.

Challenge students to design an event that promotes and minimises rubbish in the school.

Activity 1 -Bundling
 * Use sticky note.
 * Students to write on paper information they know about rubbish or its impact on the environment.
 * List as many ideas as you like on individual pieces of paper.
 * When all students have a number of ideas form small groups and ask the groups to bundle their ideas into like groups.
 * Then bundle the small group ideas into class groups.
 * The bundles could be centred on rubbish production, rubbish making, recycling, composting etc. List the bundle ideas on the whiteboard.

Activity 2- Cooperative group activity Students to form small groups who would be interested in designing an event that is centred on the idea and reducing rubbish. (//For instances a bundle may be focused on too much rubbish in our school ground and students design an event to reduce rubbish or bundle may be focused on recycling is good for the environment and students design a campaign to promote more recycling.)//

For support, (http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/ 1.Garbage  2.Waste facts  3.THE 3RS – REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE  4.Waste Tips  5.Paper Recycling

Each group plan should include the following aspects: •The event name and purpose •What is going to happen •Who is going to be involved •What evidence/data will be collected about reducing rubbish •How will it be advertised Groups create a presentation of their plan. This could be done electronically or on poster. Groups present their plan to the class.

__ The 7 table groups decided on these 7 areas to develop their plans about these RUBBISH REDUCING areas : __
 * 1) The 5 Rs- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink, Refuse
 * 2) Animal Welfare
 * 3) Rubbish Tips and Facts
 * 4) Pollution and Global warming
 * 5) Think local-Moreland and Merri Creek
 * 6) Lunch Boxes and Nude Food
 * 7) Reducing Rubbish Saves You Money

Each group plan included the following aspects and a leader will type up the plan to present on this wiki: •The event name and purpose •What is going to happen •Who is going to be involved •What evidence/data will be collected about reducing rubbish •How will it be advertised

Date: 25/7/11 1. REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, RETHINK, REFUSE The event is called the 3 R’s and it’s purpose is to persuade people that the 3 R’s are very important. We need people to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE. We are going to make a parody song about the 3 R’s. We will work together- Georgy (C), Maryam (VC), Fatima, Emna & Isa We will get a poem or song from the internet and then put it into our own words. It’s going to be in the newsletter and on the wiki.

2. Animal Welfare Members: Arshiya, Sarah, Josh and Magma The event name and purpose: We are going to go to the zoo. Our purpose is to help our class understand the problems of endangered species and habitats in the world. We will especially look at the orangutans and gorillas as well as Indonesian and Australian animals. We want to help save the animals. We want to find out what we can do. Zoo phone number: (03) 9285 9355 What is going to happen? We are going to ask someone from the zoo to come to our school and talk about animal welfare at assembly. We are also going to make a presentation of an animal talking about animal welfare. We have also contacted the Zoo about collecting food for the elephants because they advertised in the Moreland Leader that they want people to collect branches.

Who is going to be involved? Someone from the zoo, all the 5/6s and table 2( Arshiya, Sarah, Josh and Magma) will organise it.

What evidence/data will be collected about reducing rubbishes? We will find out how many animals die from plastic bags and how we can help the animals survive. We will research the causes for extinction and why animals become endangered.

How will it be advertised? We will make a keynote. We are going to the Zoo and Merri Creek.

**3. RUBBISH TIPS AND FACTS ACTION PLAN**  Our group will inform our school community about why they need to be aware about how rubbish and waste affect our environment. Goal: To persuade people not to use plastic bags and explain to them that it is dangerous for the environment and the animals that are already dying from it.  Rory: Include a statement in the school Newsletter with a picture each week about rubbish facts and tips. Samira, Jalu & Isra: Persuade people to not use plastic bags and use recycled bags by doing posters and slogans with tips and facts about plastic bags to explain what plastic is doing to the environment. Haekal : Find the tips for every week for the School Newsletter to interest people and convince them and tell them plastic bags can kill the environment. By:Isra, Samira, Jalu and Haekal  The more you chuck rubbish it goes into the Merri Creek, the Yarra River and then the sea and the animals think it is food and then all of a sudden they choke on it so  DO NOT LITTER!!!!

Contact Minerals education to organise an incursion for 3/4 and 5/6s. Talk about holes in the ozone layer.
 * 4. ﻿Reduce Pollution, Stop Global Warming **
 * Aim: ** To educate people about the harms of pollution; what causes it; greenhouse gases; and how to stop global warming.
 * Questions: ** “How is greenhouse gas made?” –Greenhouse gasses are gasses in the earth’s atmosphere that trap the heat & light from the sun. There are natural greenhouse gas and man-made greenhouse gas. | “What causes global warming?” –Excessive greenhouse gas “What are green house gases”- Greenhouse gases are gasses in the earth’s atmosphere that trap the heat & light from the sun.
 * Idea: ** Google Minerals Education from the Mining Council of Australia.

Research information about landfills and how the rubbish we generate at school and from our lunches causes the need for more landfills that create more greenhouse gases. If we still go on with global warming the whole world will get warmer and warmer as well as plants will die with too much heat.
 * Facts: ** The Earth is already going through many signs of worldwide climate change.

5, Think local-Moreland and Merri Creek http://www.mcmc.org.au/ We are going to make dioramas showing before and after Merri Creek on two boxes. On the first box we are going to show how tidy and beautiful Merri Creek used to be and on the other box we are going to show how ugly and polluted Merri Creek is. We are going to show animals eating the rubbish. STEP 1: We are going to find 2 big boxes. STEP 2: We are going to make the water, the rubbish, the bridge and more. STEP 3: We are going to put all of the things together and finely we're done.We hope people will stop bringing rubbish to school in their lunch boxes. We want less rubbish in our bins and yard. STEP 4: We will research information about Merri Creek and the flora and fauna to educate the school. STEP 5: We are going to visit the Merri Creek on an excursion to do some experiments and see how healthy the creek is. STEP 6: We will explain our dioramas and information at assembly after our visit. By Saeed, Sammy, Sibel and Hannah

__6 . LUNCH BOXES GROUP: __

RIFQY, BILLY, YOUSEFF, NASTEHO, JASMINE, EMILY AND AHMED.

Our goal: Invent ways to make kids enjoy bringing healthy, nude food.

Idea 1: __LUNCH BOX LOTTERY__, there will be a box passed around each class, 2 kids from each class pick out a fruit and then we count how many kids have that fruit in the class, 5 points are added for each kids house if they have that fruit in their lunch boxes. This will be presented at assembly.

How will my group do this: First we find a tub, then we find plastic fruit, which we insert in the tub, we place a cover on the tub and then decorate it.

Idea 2: __NUDE FOOD POSTERS,__ posters with reasons to bring healthy nude food will be displayed in the hall. There will be a slogan, information and pictures on the poster. How will my group do this: In pairs, we design a poster and make sure it is attractive and amusing to students so they learn to bring nude food. Put up graphs that show the Rubbish Free Lunch information. Analyse the data and inform the school at assembly. Get each class to make own action plan to reduce rubbish brought to school.

7.Eco cash plan

Purpose: Educate the community about the ways that reducing littering can also save money.

Activity; Create a movie/news report showing the message that littering can be very expensive as you can get fined.

Scene.1 Kashan and Yahya start with the news report. We talk about rubbish and how you can save money.

Scene.2 Ayisha is at Yahya` s villa and in the back round Shahzeb & Hamza are littering on the street in Yahyasville. Ayisha & Kashan come as a police man and a police woman and prosecute the two litterers.

Scene.3 At the end Amelin says the message, which is, “ Littering can cost you money.”

Starring: Hamza, Shahzeb, Amelin, Kashan, Ayisha & Fasheha. Hamza – Captain – Litterer Shahzeb – Vice Captain – Litterer 2 Kashan- Police Ayisha- Police

**__ MORELAND STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL __**

**__ DURING THE RUBBISH FREE LUNCH CHALLENGE __**

Moreland Primary has a Rubbish Free Policy. Students are encouraged to bring healthy nude food like fruit and vegetables. Snacks like popcorn or dried fruit should be put into containers and if students do bring wrappers they should take them home.

During the Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge (RFL), each class collected the lunch box rubbish, sorted it into categories and weighed it. Then our **MEPA** Group [**M**oreland **E**nvironmental **P**rotection **A**ctivators] helped each class graph their rubbish totals. It was fantastic that each grade developed an action plan to reduce their lunch box waste in the future.

The table below shows how much rubbish each class produced before the RFL Challenge on the 21/7, which was a normal day and the second column shows the fantastic improvement for the RFL Challenge Day on July 27th. Look at the impressive results. We are particularly proud of the 3/4s.


 * Before Challenge day, **** 21/7/11 ** ** Challenge day, 27/7/2011 **


 * **// Grades //** || **// Total pieces of rubbish //** || **// Weight of rubbish //** || **// Total pieces of rubbish //** || **// Weight of rubbish //** ||
 * ** Preps ** || ** 18 ** || ** 99 ** grams || ** 5 ** || ** 15 ** Grams ||
 * ** 1 /2 ** || ** 64 ** || ** 385 ** grams || ** 22 ** || ** 180 ** Grams ||
 * ** 3 /4 ** || ** 49 ** || ** 130 ** grams || ** 0 ** || ** 0 ** Grams ||
 * ** 5/6 ** || ** 61 ** || ** 728 ** grams || ** 6 ** || ** 6 ** Grams ||
 * ** Staff room ** || ** 52 ** || **361** grams || ** 8 ** || 8 Grams ||
 * ** School Total ** || ** 244 ** || ** 1.653 kg ** || ** 41 ** || ** 263 ** **Grams** ||

Now, we know we must all bring healthy, nude food lunches to school to be stronger and healthier. We also realise that we need to help the environment by reducing the rubbish at our school. Well done to all students, parents and staff. Make every day a Rubbish Free Lunch day.

Here is a copy of the RFL Report we developed as part of the RFL Competition: