Summary
Frank loses a pen in the trash, so he and Watt follow it all the way to the City Island Waste Management Center. Garbage does not disappear - it goes somewhere, and people handle it. Sorting, recycling, and where "away" actually is.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Three quick questions to run after the short.
- Where did Watt and Frank's search take them?
- What happens to garbage after the truck picks it up?
- What could we do to make less trash in our classroom?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: garbage, recycle, landfill.
Try it: Sort five classroom items into trash, recycling, and reuse, and explain one choice.