Bring Recycling to Life With Recycling Plastics Freeze Frame Activity

The Recycling Plastics Freeze Frame Activity helps students explore how plastic materials change during recycling and strengthens their understanding of states of matter and real-world sustainability practices. 

In this Recycling Plastics Freeze Frame activity, students draw and label four stages of plastic bottle recycling. As they identify the state of matter in each frame, students deepen their understanding of how materials can change from solid to liquid and back again. 

Illustrate the Process for Recycling Plastics

This hands-on science task combines drawing, labelling, and scientific thinking while having students illustrate the process for recycling plastics. Included in this download:

• Recycling worksheet with four recycling stages
• Answer key with expected states of matter for each stage

Download This Recycling Process Drawing Task 

To download this Recycling Process Drawing Task, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and choose between the printable PDF and editable Google Slides formats. 

This resource was created by Brittany Kellogg, a teacher and Teach Starter collaborator.

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