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"You
Can Make Paper" Lesson Plan
Keywords: papermaking,
forest products, recycling
Prepared by: Cathy Dorfi, St. Joseph's Elementary School,
Sharon, Pa.
Grade Level: fourth grade (ES)
Total Time for Lesson: 45 minutes
Setting: classroom
Concepts to Be Covered
- Students will define
recycling terms.
- Students will discuss
why recycling is important.
- Students will study
the history of recycling.
- Students will identify
6 steps in the recycling process.
- Students will recycle
newspaper and make "new" pieces of paper.
Standards for Environment
and Ecology: (4.2.4B) Identify Products Derived from Natural
Resources; (4.2.4D) Identify By-Products and Their Use of Natural
Resources; (4.2.7D) Describe the Role of Recycling and Waste Management;
(4.8.7A) Describe How the Development of Civilization Relates to
Resources Used in the Environment; (Glossary XII) Recycling
Materials Needed
- "Paper
Recycling" booklet
- large square pan
- 3 cups of warm water
- 1 1/2 sheets of newspaper
- fine mesh screen
- rolling pin
- whole section of newspaper
- blender
Methods
1. Introduce lesson by
defining "recycling" (process where materials are sorted,
cleaned, and made into new products).
2. Discuss ways paper has been recycled throughout history. (Paper
Recycling)
3. List the six major steps in the recycling process:
- Pick up & pre-sort
paper
- Sorting (at recycling
center)
- Repulping (paper is
soaked in large vats of water and chemicals)
- Screening (pulp is
filtered to remove impurities)
- De-inking (soapy chemicals
in a flotation device)
- New products (cleaned
and de-inked pulp is mixed with new pulp)
4. Making paper in the
classroom.
- Tear the newspaper
into tiny pieces.
- Put newspaper pieces
and 3 cups of water into a blender. Cover & stir on medium
speed for 5 seconds (pulp).
- Place screen on bottom
of pan and cover with 1 inch of water.
- Pour about 1 cup of
pulp over the screen and spread it around evenly.
- Lift screen and let
water drain.
- Put screen, pulp side
up on newspaper. Flip paper so pulp is face down.
- Take a rolling pin
and roll out excess water. Open newspaper and remove screen.
- Leave pulp dry overnight.
You now have new piece of paper.
Evaluation
- Class discussion about
history and recycling process.
- Observation of paper-making
process.
Reference
Georgia Pacific (1997).
Manufacturing.
Paper Recycling Education in Nature Series (vol. 4: number 1).
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