Creative Handicrafts from Recycled Materials Unit Portfolio Presentation Dame Cyrene Sambaan Catherine Jean Mabayo

Unit Summary This unit will improve a child’s skills in innovating creative and useful products coming from recycled materials to ensure child’s environmental awareness. They will create handmade products for the purpose of nurturing self-independence and creativity. Their products could also be an avenue for business ventures.

Curriculum-Framing Questions Essential Question What is the importance of responsibility? Unit Questions Why do we need to recycle materials? How can we innovatively create useful products from recycled materials? Content Questions What are biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials? What are recycled materials? How could we create artistic materials from recycled materials?

Project Approaches Our Students Will: Collaborate with peers and community members through selling Create a product that shows what they’ve learned Experience innovating creative and useful products from recycled materials Gain child’s environmental awareness

Creative Handicrafts Project This project will help my students develop 21 st century skills by: cooperating with each other. identifying the biodegradable materials from non-biodegradable materials. creating artistic products from recycled materials. communicating with others through selling.

Gauging Student Needs Assessment We will use my Essential and Unit Questions to: Find out children’s ideas about the importance of reusing materials to help our environment Gather information on biodegradable and non- biodegradable materials Create useful products from recycled materials Assess 21st Century skills Ability to create artistic products from recycled materials

Gauging Student Needs Assessment What we will learn from the assessment What our pupils think about the importance of recycling materials What our pupils think are the importance of discipline, hard work, and money What our pupils will gain from the assessment If pupils don’t know what product to create, we can provide examples from various resources

Our Goals Find ways to get our pupils more interested in learning new skills Learn about different kinds of technology we and our pupils can use Share ideas with others

Request for Feedback Need ways to help children to understand the value of discipline, hard work and money Ideas for helping children take more responsibility for their environment

Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” End =)