On March 8th, Liaoyuan Bilingual School MYP held the launching ceremony of our service project, "New Fashion of Garbage Classification". Seemingly simple questions such as, “is wet tissue dry trash or wet trash?”, or “are the leaves dry trash or wet trash?”, can be very confusing. From these questions, MYP teachers began to tell students why we need to garbage classification and its scientific basis. The students showed great interest in this topic.
As a candidate school of IB – MYP, service projects are a part of the LYBS curriculum. To support Shanghai household garbage classification, we chose garbage classification as the topic of our service project. With the MYP service course, students will find real life problems, and inquire about solutions with what they’ve learnt about serving the community.
After studying the Shanghai Household Waste Regulation, the students designed garbage bin signs to promote garbage classification correctly. Making signs are a worthy challenge for students, because it not only reflects the students' full understanding of garbage classification, but also exercises their creative and aesthetic abilities.
Students did role plays, wrote initiatives advocating other students to throw trash into the right garbage cans: dry waste, wet waste, recycling waste, and hazardous waste. We advocated reducing the use of disposable goods and plastic bags. Moreover, students went into the community as volunteers to advocate garbage classification, and to encourage everyone to join the household garbage classification.
In order to further inquire about the difficulties of implementation of household garbage classification, MYP students made a questionnaire to find out the reasons for residents' difficulties, ranging from action to awareness issues.
This course develops students' inquiry ability and practical ability, lets students experience science in life, cultivates their ability to find problems, and puts forward problems and solutions, so that they can be interested in learning scientific knowledge and developing humanistic feelings. Finally, students will use their own ways to publicize the household garbage classification, raise people's awareness, and support garbage classification in Shanghai.
