K-2 Grade Band Lessons
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Last Updated: Mar 25, 2025, 12:43 PM
The Clean SoIL K-2 lessons are designed to build foundational knowledge for further inquiry. Lessons are hands-on and utilized the 5E Model of lesson design: engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. Each lesson is driven by student inquiry.
Each lesson below has a brief description, the standard addressed in the lesson as well as linked resources needed to make the lesson happen.
Lessons
Where Does Trash Go?
In Where Does Trash Go, students get to experience firsthand what happens to a banana, a piece of paper and a water bottle when they are left alone to decompose.
Next Generation Science Standards
K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
Common Core English Language Art Standards
Speaking and Listening.K.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Speaking and Listening.K.3: Ask and answer questions in order for seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
Writing.2.2: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points and provide a concluding statement or section.
Writing.2.7: Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g. read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report, record science observations).
Writing.2.8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
What's Trash? What's Recycling?
In What's Trash? What's Recycling?, students will work to see separate what belongs in the trash and what can be recycled. Students will work in groups and drive discussion to communicate solutions.
Next Generation Science Standard
K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
How is Paper Recycled?
In How is Paper Recycled?, students take a moment to look at how much paper they used in the classroom using a waste audit. They are then given an opportunity to work as a class to come up solutions to reduce the amount of paper used in class. Bonus: the lesson starts with students cleaning out their desks!
Next Generation Science Standard
K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
Coming Soon: Curriculum Kits
Don't have all the materials to make a Clean SoIL lesson happen? No problem!
The Clean SoIL curriculum writers recognize that classroom teachers often have to purchase materials for their class out-of-pocket. To make it easier for classroom teachers to implement Clean SoIL lessons, we've secured grant funding to create kits with materials needed for making lessons happen.
For more information, contact Dr. Harvey Henson at henson@siu.edu.