MAPEH-Week 5

Quarter 1 – Health Wk 5-8

Title: IMPLEMENTING
ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT
(School Garden)
Name _______________________________ Grade & Section: ______________
Date ____________
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET IN MAPEH 9- HEALTH
QUARTER 1 WEEK 5-8
Implementing Environmental Project (School Garden)
H9CE-Ig-h14

I. Background Information

What is a school garden?

A school garden is an innovative teaching tool strategy that
lets educators incorporate hands - on activities in a diversity
of interdisciplinary, standards-based lessons. The garden
engages students by providing a dynamic environment in
which to observe, discover, experiment, nurture, and learn. It
is a living laboratory where lessons are drawn from real-life
experiences rather than textbook examples, allowing students
to become active participants in the learning process. Through
the garden, students gain an understanding of ecosystems,
an appreciation for food origins and nutrition, and knowledge
of plant and animal life cycles. At the same time, they learn
practical horticultural skills that last a lifetime.

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 What I Need to Know?

OBJECTIVES:
1. Identif y the importance of recycling
2. Explain the implementation of an environmental project

3. Demonstrate building and maintain a school garden

II. Learning Competency

1. Discusses the implementation of an environmental project
such as maintaining a school garden
2. Explains the importance of Waste Management and
Recycling

III. ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITY 1: Answer the following questions briefly.

1. Is “School Garden” significant to students? Why or why not?

2. As a student, how will you maintain your school garden?

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School gardens have a long history
The story is one of diverse aims, changing practices,
fluctuating commitment and, today, renewed relevance. In
different historical contexts, school gardens have had different
priorities. Such differences in background experience will
inevitably affect each government’s policies and programmes. In
the North, ‘garden-based learning’ has predominated, using
gardens as laboratories for hands on learning of science,
environmental studies, and other subjects such as art and
language. More recently, garden enthusiasts have been
especially concerned at the growing alienation of urban youth –
not only from nature but also from the sources of the food they
eat – and have rekindled an interest in food gardening and
nutrition: the ‘edible school yard’. Much has been done to
promote school gardens and to integrate them into the existing
curriculum, but the battle for recognition of their educational
value continues.
In the South, educational use has been mainly for vocational
agricultural training, which has sometimes proved to be a
resilient curriculum element in spite of resistance to ‘ruralisation’
of the curriculum. Otherwise, the main orientation of school
gardens has been food production for consumption or cash,
often with the hope that the gardens might help to supply the
school meals which make such a difference to children’s health,
attendance and educational success. Such initiatives have often
proved unsustainable through lack of resources, motivation or
expertise. However, some countries have long-established
policies of associating school gardens with school food and
improving children’s nutrition and eating habits; any shining
examples of individual schools and projects demonstrate that the
potential is there.

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 What happened?
ACTIVITY 2: Look at the picture of the below:

Answer the following questions:

1. From the picture above, what is your stand about the waste
problem in our country? Explain.
2. What are the possible effects to our mother earth and to
humankind?
3. As a Grade 9 students, how could these waste problems be
eradicated?
4. What can you do to help reduce use of plastics?

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 What I Need to Know?

The Importance of Waste Management and Recycling

Planning the waste management and recycling for all of the

rubbish produced in this country is an enormous task which involves
both logistical planning and scientific knowledge and understanding
in order to balance the impact on the environment and the cost
effectiveness of the process.
Waste management and recycling companies are also feeling an
extra pressure to perform their role in the greenest ways possible. It
is important to remember that the UK’s resources and landfill sites
are limited and this has a major bearing on the kind of activities that
are carried out.
Waste collection and rubbish disposal play an extremely important
role in the global cleanliness and sustainability drive, with people’s
health and the conservation of resources being the responsibility of
every government. To ease the pressure on government agencies,
numerous privately-managed organisations also play a part in these
waste management and recycling programs. In many cities it means
that local government agencies have been left with the responsibility
of overseeing the work done by these privately held organisations.

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Integrated Waste Management Programs
When developing an action plan for waste reduction projects think about
multiple solutions and alternatives. Incorporating multiple layers will allow
the program to maximize waste reduced. Analyze the environmental,
social, and ecomonic costs associated with each solution and involve
students in decision making processes when possible.
Here is an example of a school who has taken on a project to reduce the
amount of paper sent to the landfill:
• Teachers, staff, and students begin to reduce use through duplex
printing

• Teachers and students only print what is absolutely necessary

• Teachers begin to assign work that does not need to be written
• Teachers use a smartboard or chalkboard to deliver written instructions
• Students submit assignments digitally rather than in print
Reduce
• Students collect paper scraps and turn them into note-pads
• Students and staff create a paper supply exchange for notebooks and
other
paper products a person no longer uses
• The student art clubs turn old homework into paper mache materials,
recycled beads, and more
Reuse

• Students and staff collect and recycle old homework

• Students host a paper recycling competition to determine see grade
level can collect the most paper
• The school hosts a recycled paper drive for the community and weighs
the final amount collected

• The school starts purchasing paper made from recycled paper

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ACTIVITY 3
Direction: Answer the following questions:
1. What are the 3”R”s in the waste management strategies? Explain each.
2. If you will make some strategies to help minimize waste in the
surroundings what are those?

Waste Reduction Projects in Schools

Waste reduction projects in schools generate interest in the topic of
solid waste as an environmental issue. These projects focus on
reducing, reusing, and recycling material waste at a school with the
overall goal reduce waste at the school. A successful waste reduction
project includes a focus on preventing waste, understanding where
waste ends up, and exploring how waste issues impact the land, air,
water, and other living things in the local environment. Students
involved in waste reduction projects explore topics of how humans
interact with the world around them including the use of natural
resources, impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things in
a local environment. Students think about their actions and learn to
make their own choices. Students begin to develop a sense of
wonder about the world around them and will understand the
importance of caring for the Earth.
Waste reduction projects vary in size and depth. Projects can target
overall waste generated at the school, a specific material, increasing
reuse of office supplies, and much more. Waste reduction can also
take place behind the scenes as faculty and staff engage in
sustainable practices such as duplex printing, digital
communications,sustainable purchasing of office supplies and
materials, and engaging in conversation with the school’s waste
hauler. When starting a waste reduction project, first think about the
needs of the school. What does the building need? Are there
programs that should be doing more? Are there programs in place
that have not been performing to their best capabilities?

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 What I Have Learned?

Fill in the Blanks

Instruction: Write the correct answer in the blank.
1. The Fredericton Region Solid Waste Commission is helping our community to
__________ our natural resources and __________ our environment.
2. On recycling day, our blue boxes are filled with__________ cans,__________
containers,__________ bags.
3. The grey boxes are used to collect different kinds of__________ products for
recycling.
4. When recycling trucks arrive at the recycling facility, they are__________ at the
sales.

5. Another name for “Recycling Plant” is__________ __________ __________.

6. The recycling trucks drop off about __________ tones of recyclables everyday.
7. All of the recyclable cans and plastic bottles are__________ and__________ into
blocks before being loaded onto the transport trucks.
8. After the recyclables are dropped off at the Material Recovery Facility, they
are__________ into different piles.
9. Plastic pop bottles are often recycled into fabric items such as__________
__________, and even__________.
10. Newspaper can be recycled back into__________.
11. The dangerous wastes from our home like point or cleansers are called__________
__________ __________.
12. __________ __________ __________ are used to clean contaminated soil.
13. __________ __________ are buried under the landfill to prevent liquids from
leaking into the ground.
14. The liquid material in a landfill is called__________.
15. __________ __________ __________ are located in the ground surrounding the
Solid Waste Facility to make sure that no pollution is escaping.
16. Before waste goes in the landfill, it is compressed into a__________ so that it takes
up__________ space.

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 Assessment

Activity 4. Crossword Puzzle!

Across
2 . Waste buried in ground
7. Waste that gives off radiation
9. Unwanted material or substance
10. Places where collected recyclables are sorted
12. Liquid that results when substances from trash dissolve
13. Conversion of organic waste into mul ch or humus
14. Refers to solid or liquid waste that is toxic
15. Nonliquid waste that comes from homes

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Down
1. Waste that comes from the production of consumer goods
3. Controlled process in which mixed garbag e is burned at very
high temperatures
4. Preventing waste generation
5. Capable of being decompose by bacteria
6. Well is drilled deep beneath the water table
8. Collection of materials that can be broken down
11. Electronic waste

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SCHOOLS DIVISION OF CITY OF BOGO

JAN AXEL L. CORTES

Author

BRIGITH C.JUGASAN
Education Program Supervisor in Mapeh

ROSELLER N.GELIG, CESO VI

Officer in Charge
Assistant Schools Division Superintendent

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Department of Education – Division of City of Bogo

Office Address: Buac, Cayang, Bogo City, Cebu

Telephone Nos.:

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