Back to Basics with Litter and Recycling

About the Program

Category: County Resiliency (Best in Category)

Year: 2009

The Keep Henrico Beautiful program created and implemented a school lesson plan and accompanying bulletin board kit to educate the County’s youngest citizens about litter, recycling, and caring for the environment. The lesson plan created for kindergarten through second grades, “Back to Basics with Litter and Recycling” presented 241 classroom lessons to 4,609 students. The lesson focuses on vocabulary, reading, and creativity while adhering to Virginia’s Standard of Learning. The objective of the lesson is to give students a common environmental vocabulary so they can communicate clearly about issues facing their community. The Keep Henrico Beautiful program recognized the need for an environmental bulletin board kit upon presenting the “Back to the Basics” lesson with students. An absence of visual aids for the environmental concepts covered prompted the creation of a bulletin board kit for every kindergarten, first, and second grade classroom in the county.