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Gould Schools
Providing sustainability education in schools


3Rs +C

Years 3 – 7

This program explores the 3Rs + C in context to everyday life. Students learn what it takes to be waste wise!

Excursion program overview

Activities included in half day program:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

  • Wastelands Challenge - Students take on the Wastelands Challenge, following the waste pathway from raw materials to finished product.
  • Recycling Relay and Rubbish Free Lunches
  • Curb-side recycling - Discover what items can be recycled via curb-side recycling and what to do with items excluded from that collection.

Composting

  • Video Microscope - Do worms really have hair? Live compost creatures are revealed using a video microscope.
  • Live Worms - Wonderful worms are explored up close and personal.
  • Giant Compost Bin - Students venture through our incredible shrinking machine to explore inside a compost bin.

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Additional activities included in full day program:

  • Compost Role Play - Students relive the composting process through a costumed, interactive drama.
  • Tip Time Zone - Students travel through a garbage time zone discovering how the type and build up of waste has changed though history.
  • Bins Bins Bins! - Students go on a compost bin tour in our Climate Change Garden.

Outreach program overview

Activities included in a 1 hour incursion program (per class) at your school:

  • Recycling Relay and Rubbish Free Lunches
  • Video Microscope
  • Compost and Worm Farms: Live Worms
  • Wastelands - Students follow the waste pathway from raw materials to finished product and the life of recycled items that mistakenly end up in landfill.

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