Carbon Monster
Activity
Booklet
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What does your
Carbon Monster look like?
Create your own Carbon Monster.
Think about shapes, colours, patterns and lines.
Now describe your Carbon Monster using adjectives.
You can describe the colour, size, mood or shape.
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Write words around the
outside to describe what
Carbon Monster looks like.
Write words to describe Carbon
Monster’s personality and
behaviour inside its tummy.
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How can you reduce your Carbon Monster?
Keep a record of the packaging used at meal times in one day.
Tick all the things that can be recycled or reused.
Have you managed to reduce your Carbon Monster?
breakfast
lunch
snack
dinner
peelings
paper
card
metal
foil
glass
plastic
Find out what can be recycled by visiting
http://www.olliesworld.com/uk/html/recycle.html
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Short and Catchy Slogans
Design a poster about recycling, reducing and reusing.
Work in pairs to thought shower catchy slogans that you could use on
your poster.
Here are three ideas to get you started.
The plastic of today is the habitat of tomorrow.
Don’t waste today what you might need tomorrow.
Recycling plastic feels fantastic.
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Words you could use
bin
compost
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planet
environment care
sort
glass
plastic
paper
newspaper
card
reduce
reuse
recycle
waste
landfill
Energy and Waste Monitor
Carbon Monster loves slurping wasted light energy.
Make a list of all the different rooms and areas in school. Find out how
many lights are in each area and decide whether the lights need to be on or
off. Remember to tell the whole school about your audit to ensure you work
as a team to reduce the school’s carbon footprint.
Areas
around school
classrooms, corridors,
toilets, cupboards,
library etc.
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Audit
Number of
lights
Audit
Do they all need to
be switched on all of
the time?
Action
What can we change?
Word Art
Create your own word art using recycled materials
Look at the word taken from the story.
Make a list of words you could use to create your own
recycled word art.
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Further ideas
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2.
Create a Carbon Monster RAP.
Listen to the Carbon Monster song. Can you add
another verse?
3.
Write a story about Carbon Monster visiting your
house. What would you do to stop it getting
bigger?
4.
5.
Design a wanted poster.
Make a Carbon Monster bookmark using recycled
materials.
6.
Write a letter to Carbon Monster telling it what
you are going to do with all your waste.
7.
Write a letter to George telling him how he can
make his Carbon Monster even smaller. What can
he recycle and reuse to reduce his waste?
8.
Make a list of all the things you know you can
recycle.
9.Choose an item you have used such as, a glue
stick or pen. How many different ways can you
reuse it?
10.Make posters to display around school and at
home reminding others to switch off electrical
items when not in use.
11.Investigate how many different ways you can
save paper in school.
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