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Solid Waste Management and Recycling Education

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Solid Waste Management and Recycling Education

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Reciclando y transformando, el medio ambiente voy conservando y con las TIC me

I am supporting.

Authors:
Teachers of Eustaquio Palacios Educational Institution.
Anzoátegui General Headquarters
Morning shift.

INTRODUCTION

The waste that humans dispose of negatively impacts the environment.


environment and health, forcing rulers to establish parameters for
its suitable environmental control and management, encouraging recovery and utilization of
materials with economic value, directing actions aimed at modifying habits of
consumption to avoid waste and promote the recycling of discarded products.

The project aims in a practical, informative, and educational way to raise awareness and
training of students for the necessary and permanent adoption of revenue collection
and recovery of renewable disposable products such as: solids; plastic paper,
aluminum and glass, etc.

The present project will be shared with the educational community of the General headquarters.
Anzoátegui with the purpose of being replicated in different households to achieve its
general linkage

JUSTIFICATION

The present project aims to educate and raise awareness about the management that should be provided to
solid waste promoting compliance with government policies
about health promotion in the school environment, it also promotes the
human and social development of the educational community and guarantees the improvement of the
conditions in the school setting as a healthy space.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

Contribute to the human development of the educational community by reducing deterioration


of the environment, generating responsibility for its care through the use
suitable for solid waste by recycling or transforming them and/or until their
final disposition.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

Instill the need for environmental conservation for a life


healthy.
Create in students the habit of classifying solid waste according to their
type.

Take advantage of recyclable waste in the production of different products such as


such as: educational, artistic, and decorative material.

Promote recycling practices aiming at generating income.

RESEARCH QUESTION

How the use of ICT can create awareness and influence students in the right way.
solid waste management within your environment?

AREAS THAT INTEGRATE

Ciencias Naturales.
Language.
Technology and Computer Science.
Art Education.

STANDARDS AND COMPETENCIES OF THE AREAS THAT INTEGRATE

Natural Sciences

I locate myself in the Universe and on Earth and identify characteristics of the
matter, physical phenomena and manifestations of energy in the
environment.
I observe the world in which I live.
I identify conditions that influence the results of a
experience and that can remain constant or change
(variables).
I select the information that allows me to answer my questions.
and I determine if it is sufficient.
I propose answers to my questions and compare them with those of others.
people.
I communicate orally and in writing the inquiry process and the
results that I obtain.

Language
I produce written texts that respond to various needs
communicative.
I determine the topic, the possible reader of my text, and the purpose.
communicative that leads me to produce it.
I choose the type of text that suits my communicative purpose.
I seek information from different sources: people, media
communication and books among others.
I developed a textual plan for the production of a descriptive text.
I review, socialize, and correct my writings, taking into account the
proposals from my classmates and teacher, addressing some
grammatical aspects (agreement, tenses verbals,
pronouns) and orthographic (accentuation, capitalization, signs of
punctuation) of the Spanish language.

Technology and Computer Science:


Appropriation and use of technology.
oReconozco productos tecnológicos de mi entorno cotidiano y los
I use it in form safe and appropriate.
Technology and society.
I explore my everyday environment and differentiate natural elements from
artifacts crafted with intention of improve the
living conditions.

Art Education:
Construction and recognition of elements specific to the
aesthetic experience and of artistic language.

Formation of the appreciative judgment.

Understanding of aesthetic sense and belonging.

DIGITAL CONTENT THAT ARTICULATES

Blog
J click
Email
You Tube
Office Automation
Spiderscribe
Kizoa
Scribd
Slideshare
Scratch

PROCESS
The project will use ICT tools as teaching resources to create
raising awareness among students about the benefits of properly managing
solid waste contributing to the creation of a healthy environment and surroundings in
the General Anzoátegui headquarters.

FRAME OF REFERENCE

With the strength of the movementsanti-globalizationtook place in September 2000,


in the city of New York, the Millennium [Link] of 189 states
they remembered the commitments made in the nineties and signed theStatement of
[Link] eight objectives:
Objective 1: Eradicate theextreme povertyand thehunger.
Objective 2: Achieve theprimary educationuniversal.
Objective 3: Promote thegender equalityand the autonomy of women.
Objective 4: Reduce theinfant mortality.
Objective 5: Improve maternal health.
Objective 6: Combat HIVIH/AIDSthemalariaand other diseases.
Objective 7: Ensure thesupport for the [Link] the principles
ofsustainable developmentin national policies and programs and reduce the loss
of resources fromenvironment.
Reduce by half, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access towater
drinkableand basic sanitation services.
Objective 8: To promote aworld association for development.

With the development of this project, the participants contribute to compliance.


of goal 7 of those proposed for the present millennium at the Summit of the Organization
from the United Nations (UN) held in New York in September 2000.

UNESCO standards for ICT competencies:


They emphasize that with its continuous and effective use in educational processes,
students have the opportunity to acquire important skills in their use. The
A teacher is the person who plays the most important role in the task of helping to
students to acquire those abilities. In addition, he is responsible for designing both
learning opportunities such as a conducive environment in the classroom, that facilitates its use by
part of the students to learn and communicate.
School Environmental Projects (PRAES):
School Environmental Projects (PRAES) were created through the decree
1743/1994 by which the Environmental Education Project for all was established
levels of formal education.
They enable the integration of different areas of knowledge, the various disciplines.
and the diverse knowledge to allow students, teachers, and the community to
understanding of a conceptual universe applied to problem-solving
environmental both local and regional and/or national. At our headquarters, the PRAES is
is being implemented with significant results.

LEGAL FRAMEWORK

The solid waste management project at the General Anzoátegui headquarters is


legally grounded in the framework of the alliances made between the Ministry of
Education and the Ministry of Health; nowadays Ministry of Social Protection, in the
framework of Law 100 of 1993 in Health and Law 115 of 1994 of Education. This is
considered one of the most successful strategies for the implementation of activities
that correspond to health promotion and disease prevention actions
in the school children and it is equally based on the guidelines provided by the
World Health Organization - WHO, the Pan American Health Organization -
OPS, the United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF and the Ministry of the
Social Protection, as the governing body of the Social Protection System, of the General System
Social Security in Health–SGSSS and the Health Sector.

Below are some of the rules that support the actions of the project:

NORM PROVISIONS AND ACTIONS RESPONSIBLE


Constitution
Establishes the fundamental rights of the All the
policy of
Colombians, as well as their duties and authorities and
Colombia
obligations. people.
of 1991
Occupational health, sanitation of buildings,
surveillance and epidemiological control, care for
Ministry of the
disasters, rights and duties related to the
Social Protection.
Law 9 of health, foods, drugs, medicines, cosmetics
Secretariat of
1979 among others, and general provisions are issued
Municipal Health and
surveillance and control by the authorities
other organisms.
sanitary, to ensure an adequate situation
of hygiene and safety to the population.
Establishes the environmental education project for
all levels of formal and fixed education
criteria for the promotion of education
Decree environmental. According to the provisions of the Law • Ministry of the
1743 of 3 115 of 1994, aims to educate the student in: the Social Protection.
of August protection, preservation, and utilization Secretary of
from 1994 of natural resources, the prevention of Education.
disasters and the improvement of conditions
humans and the environment; therefore: students,
parents

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

The school is the integrating space that supports personal and social development.
school-related and allows the development of skills and habits that will accompany the student,
in all scenarios of their life, based on this premise the authors intend
fully and voluntarily involve your educational community: principal, coordinator, teachers,
administrators, students, parents, and neighbors; among others, with the intention
It is essential to recognize the importance of the environment and contribute to its protection with
development of the present project, promoting the reduction of its deterioration through the use
appropriate management of solid waste until its final disposal and in the process contribute to the
generation of a healthy environment and surroundings at the Anzoátegui General Headquarters.

Waste: Debris, generally of urban origin and of a solid type. There is waste that
it can be reused or recycled. In nature, waste not only spoils the landscape, but
which also damages it; for example, it can contaminate groundwater, the seas,
the rivers etc.

Pollution: It is a harmful change in the chemical, physical, and


biological aspects of an environment or surroundings. It affects or can affect the life of organisms and
especially the human one.

Environmental education: Action and effect of training and informing communities about everything
related to the definition, conservation, and restoration of the different elements that
they compose the environment.
.
Environment: It is the set of physical-natural, social, cultural factors.
economic and aesthetic aspects that interact with each other, with the individual and with the society in which
lives, determining its form, character, relationship, and survival.

Recycling: It involves converting already used materials into raw materials for manufacturing.
new products.

Collection: It is the activity carried out by people who seek useful goods in the
garbage containers.

Natural resources: Elements or things from nature that are necessary and can be utilized.
for man and living beings.

Reduce: Try to dispose of the minimum possible waste.

Restore: To return, recover, or put something back to the state it previously had.

Reuse: It consists of giving a new use to an object.

Transformation: To convert one object into another through a process.

METHODOLOGY

For the implementation of this new project that aims to raise awareness and guide the
educational community in the reduction of waste on the campus, creating an environment
to motivate school work, and additionally, to improve habits and promote values in the
students, through activities that will be conducted in all grades from
transition to fifth grade through the use of ICT tools.

ACTIVITIES

1.- The conditions related to waste management will be initially diagnosed.


solid to determine the activities and prioritize their development.

2.- Socialize with the educational community the project to be carried out at our headquarters.

3.- Create a PowerPoint presentation using explanatory slides about the


siguientes términos: Basura, residuos, desechos, reducir, reutilizar, reciclar entre otros.

4.- Los estudiantes efectuarán dibujos alusivos a los términos citados y se socializarán
through the use of the camera, the computer, and the video beam.

5.- Emphasis will be placed on the damage caused by inadequate disposal of the
solid waste. The speaker will support with some videos available on the Internet.

6.- Video projection "Clean production reuse of organic waste" of


Mobile Learning Roots Project (RAM). A plenary will follow.
7.- Group work preparation: posters, printed messages, models,
diagramas, etc., en donde se plasmen los conceptos de basura, residuo, reutilizar,
recycle, reduce.

8.- Reuse of waste generated at the headquarters: cardboard, plastic containers, sheets of
paper, ice cream sticks and popsicles, candy skewers, candy paper, lids of
bottles, pencil waste, among others; creating figures of different types of
animals, to decorate and enhance the venue, designed by the students, parents of
family and teachers in the celebration of Children's Day.

9.- Field outings to assign a disposal location for solid waste that is not
they are going to reuse.

10.- Cleaning campaigns and solid waste collection.

11. Classification of solid waste and assignment of places for its final disposal.

Color of Types of waste included


container

Containers Yellow They usually include plastics, metals and


tetra-pack.

Subject Green or orange Food scraps, diapers, ashes, etc.


organic

Paperboard Blue Notebook sheets, newspapers, magazines,


packaging, etc.

Glass Light green Bottles, jars, containers, etc.

12.- Use of the Jclic tool in a word search with the terms
related to solid waste.

13.- Use of Jclic relating graphics to concepts inherent to the project.

14.- Through the blog, information will be provided about successful experiences during
the development of the project.

EVALUATION STRATEGY

The project will be subject to continuous evaluation during its development.


All activities will be evaluated at the time of their execution for the purpose of
identify the aspects to improve and proceed immediately to strengthen them.

According to the results achieved during the first period, they will be established
indicators with the aim of permanently surpassing them until achieving the
full compliance with the objectives set for the project.

Supported by the use of ICT, they will be presented in groups according to the level of education.
some related videos about the importance of conserving and respecting the environment
environment.

Encourage students who show greater interest and commitment in the execution of
project.

CONCLUSIONS

The execution of this project contributes to the human development of the community.
Anzoáteguina, reducing environmental degradation through the proper use of
solid waste.

The need for environmental conservation for life is being instilled.


healthy and the habit of sorting solid waste according to its type, in addition to the
convenience of utilizing recyclable material in the production of different
products.

The practice of recycling will allow for the generation of income for the benefit of the
educational community.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Curricular standards of the MEN


PRAES Project of the Educational Institution

WEBGRAPHY

Colombia Aprende Portal [Link]


[Link]

Common questions

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Challenges in using ICT tools for fostering environmental awareness include accessibility issues, varying levels of digital literacy among students, and potential over-reliance on technology at the expense of practical activities . These challenges can be addressed by ensuring equitable access to ICT resources, providing training sessions to enhance digital literacy, and balancing digital learning with hands-on environmental activities to provide a comprehensive educational experience . Furthermore, incorporating teacher-led guidance can ensure effective integration and usage of these technologies in a meaningful way.

Recycling practices developed in educational settings can create economic benefits for the community by fostering entrepreneurial opportunities among students and the broader community through the sale of recycled products. Engaging in recycling can lead to cost savings on waste management and materials, while selling eco-friendly products can generate additional income . Moreover, these practices instill a culture of innovation and resourcefulness, potentially leading to business opportunities around sustainable practices and products .

The integration of ICT in educational projects enhances student awareness and practice in solid waste management by providing interactive and engaging platforms, such as blogs, videos, and digital tools, that sensitize students about the importance of waste management. These tools aid in creating a conducive learning environment, fostering critical thinking, and enabling the creative expression of concepts like recycling and reuse . Additionally, ICT aids in disseminating information effectively and allows for the continuous evaluation of projects, ensuring improvements and heightened student commitment .

The project leverages creative activities by involving students in the artistic depiction of concepts such as recycling, reducing, and reusing through drawings and model creations . These activities encourage students to apply their artistic skills to understand and express the importance of environmental conservation. Additionally, by creating animal figures and decorative items from recyclables, students actively participate in recycling processes, thus fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of environmental conservation efforts .

The educational project employs various methodologies to improve waste management habits among students, including hands-on activities like creating art and educational materials from recyclables, organizing field trips to assign waste disposal locations, and conducting cleaning campaigns . Additionally, the project utilizes ICT tools such as PowerPoint presentations, video projections, and interactive digital content to engage students actively and creatively in understanding waste management concepts . These methodologies are designed to stimulate interest and encourage practical application of waste reduction and recycling principles.

The community plays a significant role in the waste management project at Anzoátegui General Headquarters by participating in awareness and educational activities designed to instill environmental conservation habits. Community involvement includes support from various stakeholders such as teachers, parents, and local neighbors, all of whom contribute to creating a healthy environment by working on projects that manage and reduce waste efficiently . This community-driven approach ensures that conservation efforts are holistic and sustainable, impacting the larger community beyond the school .

School Environmental Projects (PRAES) contribute to environmental sustainability by integrating different areas of knowledge to address local, regional, and national environmental issues. They emphasize practical and educational approaches to problem-solving in environmental contexts, fostering a deep understanding of sustainable practices among students, teachers, and the community . PRAES also encourage habits and skills in environmental conservation that are applied across different life scenarios, contributing significantly to sustainability efforts .

The environmental initiatives described in the document align with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by contributing to Goal 7: ensuring environmental sustainability. The projects emphasize sustainable waste management practices, reducing environmental degradation, and promoting the recycling of materials, all of which directly support the incorporation of sustainable development principles into national policies as advocated by the MDGs . These initiatives further aim to enhance life quality by promoting sustainable access to resources and fostering a sense of environmental responsibility in the educational community .

The key objectives of the project aimed at reducing environmental deterioration through waste management at Anzoátegui General Headquarters include promoting the classification and recycling of solid waste, utilizing recyclable materials to produce useful products, and fostering environmental conservation habits among students. The project also aims to comply with government policies regarding health promotion in schools and to generate income through recycling practices .

The legal framework supports environmental education and waste management in schools through policies such as the decree 1743/1994, which establishes the Environmental Education Project across all educational levels . These initiatives are further underpinned by alliances between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, aligning with international guidelines from organizations like WHO and UNICEF . This framework ensures schools implement activities promoting environmental health and waste management, thereby facilitating education in sustainability and environmental stewardship.

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