Did you know that clothing and textiles can be recycled, just like glass, paper, aluminum, and plastic? Pupils are introduced to textile recycling and design persuasive posters or letters that raise awareness about this unique type of recycling.

Concepts

earth day, recycling, recyclables, fractions, persuasive letters, persuasive techniques, Persuasive Writing, opinion writing

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Additional Tags

earth day, social studies

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Classroom Considerations

• You may want to consider a separate lesson to introduce the different persuasion techniques (i.e. bandwagon, slogan, repetition, emotional appeal, etc.) mentioned in this resource
• This will require some extra preparation time in order to gather the magazine advertisements needed for the primary activity

Pros

• Includes cross-curricular worksheets that blend fractions and decimal knowledge with textile recycling
• Includes fact sheet and answer key

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.4.1.a W.5.1.a W.6.1.a