In the spring of 2016, Louisiana Act 72 was signed into law, requiring that students in grades K-5 receive education about litter and its vast implications on our environment. Keep Louisiana Beautiful has created a K-5 environmental education curriculum that focuses on litter, pollution, recycling, and environmental stewardship to protect our watershed and the Gulf. This curriculum is available for download below, complete with lesson plans, activity sheets, and student standards.
Lesson Plan 1: What is Litter?
Lesson Plan 2: Timeline of Trash
Lesson Plan 3: Litter Decomposition
Lesson Plan 4: What is a Watershed?
Lesson Plan 5: Keeping Our Water Clean
Lesson Plan 6: Trash Effects on Wildlife
Lesson Plan 9: Reusing, Repurposing
Lesson Plan 10: Environmental Stewardship and Civic Responsibility
Lesson Plan 11: Saving Our Seas
Lesson 1 Activity Sheets: How Trash Adds Up; Put Litter Where it Belongs
Lesson 2 Activity Sheets: What is it?; Trash Talk
Lesson 3 Activity Sheets: Composting Crossword Puzzle; I Spy
Lesson 4 Activity Sheets: Where is your Watershed?; Watershed Word Jumble
Lesson 5 Activity Sheets: Bad News for Clean Water; The Water Story
Lesson 6 Activity Sheets: Rocksey, You Look Different!; Watershed Word Jumble
Lesson 7 Activity Sheets: Plastics!; It’s all Plastic
Lesson 8 Activity Sheets: These Items Need to Go – But Where?; Put the Can in the Bin
Lesson 9 Activity Sheets: Make it Different, Use it Again; Repurpose With a Purpose
Lesson 10 Activity Sheets: You’re Part of a Community; What Happens Next?
