Basic 3 · Religious and Moral Education · God the Creator
Keeping Our Surroundings Clean
In this topic you will learn how to manage waste and keep our surroundings clean.
By the end of these notes you should be able to:
- Explain sanitation
- Show proper ways to dispose of waste
- Explain reduce, reuse and recycle
What you already know
- Trees and forests
Copy everything that has a blue line on its left into your notebook. The other parts are for reading.
- Strand
- God’s Creation & Attributes
- Sub-strand
- God the Creator
- Indicator
- B3.1.1.1.1 – Demonstrate ways to care for the environment
Introduction
Plastic sachets block gutters and cause floods. When we manage waste well, our surroundings stay clean and healthy.
1. Sanitation
Sanitation: Keeping our surroundings clean and getting rid of waste safely.
2. Proper Waste Disposal
- Put rubbish in covered bins.
- Separate plastic from food waste.
- Do not burn plastics.
- Use toilets and keep them clean.
3. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
| R | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| reduce | use less | carry a basket instead of many plastic bags |
| reuse | use again | use an old bottle as a pencil holder |
| recycle | turn waste into new things | plastic sachets made into bags or mats |
New words
- sanitation
- Keeping surroundings clean.
- waste
- Things we throw away.
- dispose
- To get rid of.
- recycle
- To turn waste into something new.
Summary
- Sanitation keeps our surroundings clean and healthy.
- Put rubbish in covered bins and separate plastics.
- Reduce, reuse and recycle waste.
Class activity: Waste Sort
- Sort classroom waste into plastic, paper and food waste.
- Think of one way to reuse an item.
- Put the rest in the right bin.
You need: Local tree seedling, Broom, Waste basket
Exercises
Answer in your exercise book first, then check your answers.
1. Where should rubbish go?
- A. A covered bin
- B. The gutter
- C. The river
- D. The road
Show answer
Answer: A covered binBins keep places clean.2. Using an old bottle as a pencil holder is…
- A. Reusing
- B. Reducing
- C. Burning
- D. Littering
Show answer
Answer: ReusingIt is used again.3. Plastic sachets can block gutters.
- A. True
- B. False
Show answer
Answer: TrueThey cause floods.4. Burning plastics is good sanitation.
- A. True
- B. False
Show answer
Answer: FalseIt makes harmful smoke.5. To turn waste into something new is to ______.
Show answer
Answer: recycleThat is recycling.6. Explain the three Rs.
Show answer
Answer: Reduce (use less), reuse (use again), recycle (make new things).These manage waste.
Homework
- Reuse one item at home instead of throwing it away.