Waste Not Jeopardy Game Brightwater Edukit 2003 Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council1 Waste Not Jeopardy Game After reading the instructions, click anywhere

Waste Not Jeopardy Game Brightwater Edukit 2003 Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council 1

• Waste Not Jeopardy Game After reading the instructions, click anywhere to begin the game.

• How to use this game

• 1. This game is intended for “edu-tainment”. You can use it for preparing students to discuss waste management issues or as a review of some basic information. To leave the game at anytime, press the Esc button on your keyboard.

• 2. When playing the game, it is important to remember to click on the answer you think is most correct. If you click on the graphic you will be returned to the game screen. If you click elsewhere you will be shown the next question. After you have seen the slide “Yes” or “Sorry”, click on the graphic to return to the game screen. Answers are found on slide #33.

• 3. The game can be played individually or by the class using a data projector and screen.• 4. You are welcome to copy the material for classroom use. • 5. Suggested variations:

- Print out the slides. Make a bulletin board display with strings and have students match the question to the answer.- Provide noise makers for the students to “buzz” in to answer. If a student or team answers incorrectly, the next team to buzz in can have a chance to answer. - Take a paper copy of the slides with you to the Brightwater Science and Environmental Centre camp. During the evening, divide the class into three or four teams and challenge them with the questions.

• 6. There are many resources on the web to help you build your own Jeopardy Games. Have fun!

• ©This slide show is not to be reproduced for commercial purposes. It may be reproduced for classroom purposes by the staff and students of the Saskatoon Public School Division or the Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council.


GeneralGeneral

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CompostCompost

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Plastic / Plastic / Glass Glass 100

MetalsMetals

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A place where unwanted material is deposited.

a. What is a gravel pit?

b. What is a landfill?

c. What is a vault?


Vegetable peelings mixed with dried leaves, water, air and soil in a heap.

a. What is “outdoor pie”?

b. What is a mouse nest?

c. What is a compost pile?


Carpets, upholstery and fleece sweaters are made from this recycled material.

a. What are tree fibres?

b. What are plastic pop bottles?

c. What is dried paint ?


A lightweight metal often made into beverage containers.

a. What is tin foil?

b. What is aluminum?

c. What is steel?


Known as the

“Three R’s”.a. What are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?

b. What are Rosetown, Regina, Rosthern?

c. What are Radishes, Rhubarb, & Rutabaga?


Makes up about 1/3 of the total waste stream, similar to the portion created by kitchen and yard waste.

a. What is plastic?

b. What is paper?

c. What is glass?


Anything that is no longer wanted, used or needed.

a. What is compost?

b. What can be recycled?

c. What is garbage or waste?


These microscopic organisms do the work of breaking down plant and animal material.

a. What are fungi?

b. What are bacteria?

c. What are algae?


The number in the triangle on plastic containers.

a. What is the plastic classification code?

b. What is the Customer Care Help Number?

c. What is the number of times the container has been recycled?


Scrap vehicles, farm machinery and tin cans have this in common.

a. What is modern art / sculpture?

b. What is discarded or abandoned as worthless?

c. What is made from steel?


Choosing not to buy something.

a. What is refuse?

b. What is an alien?

c. What is a merchant?


Paper that is used and made into new paper.

a. What is a newsprint?

b. What is post-consumer paper?

c. What is rice paper?


One person’s actions influencing another person’s actions so that eventually a great number of people are doing the same thing.

a. What are copycats?

b. What is a politician?

c. What is the power of one?


Using red wiggler worms to make compost.

a. What is vermicomposting?

b. What is backyard composting?

c. What is worm slavery?


It takes five 2-litre pop bottles (mixed with cotton) to make one of these.

a. What are bowling pins?

b. What is a recycled bird feeder?

c. What is an extra large shirt?


Uses only 5% of the electricity needed to make a new aluminum can.

a. What is a recycled aluminum can?

b. What is a smelter?

c. What is an electric arc furnace?


Material found on outdoor playgrounds, not made of sand, but still a safe place to land.

a. What is crushed glass?

b. What is tire crumb?

c. What is foam?


Retailers estimate that 85 –90% of their waste stream is made up of this type of shipping box.

a. What is box board?

b. What is corrugated cardboard?

c. What is a gaylord container?


Grass cut to a height of 2 – 3” and clippings left on the lawn.

a. What is a thatch layer?

b. What is an organic lawn?

c. What is grasscycling?


Humus is another word for this material.

a. What is the decayed organic part of soil?

b. What is a chick pea bean dip?

c. What is the sedimentary layer?


Heated sand mixed with chemicals such as soda ash or limestone.

a. What is glass?

b. What is sodium bicarbonate?

c. What is asphalt?


Saves 1247 kgs of iron ore, 698 kgs of coal and 60 kgs of limestone from being made into new steel.

a. What is 5 tonnes of recycled steel?

b. What is 1 tonne of recycled steel?

c. What is 1400 kgs of cast iron?


The production of asphalt roads and highways are made from this product.

a. What is used oil?b. What are asphalt shingles?c. What is bric-a-brac?


The ground-up, moist cellulous material used to make paper.

a. What is pulp?

b. What is mush?

c. What is Betula papyrifera?


Polyethylene teraphthalate

a. What is a dangerous pesticide?

b. What is beverage container plastic?

c. What is recycling residue?


Missing in a compost pile that has gone anaerobic.

a. What is oxygen?

b. What is bacteria?

c. What is nitrogen?


Crushed glass used in making new glass or glass products such as fibreglass or beads in highway paint.

a. What is cullet?

b. What is abrasive paint?

c. What are filings?


Electric arc furnaces can use this amount of scrap metal to make new steel.

a. What is 100%?

b. What is 50%?

c. What is 25%?


The growing mounds of discarded computers and televisions.

a. What is e-waste?

b. What is c-t waste?

c. What is an electronic landfill?


You save one tonne of paper, representing about 17 trees, by recycling this.

a. What is 20,964 paper tissue boxes?

b. What is a 20,964 appliance boxes?

c. What is 4,351 daily newspapers?

Waste Not Jeopardy Game Brightwater Edukit 2003 Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council

(3)

Landfill or Dump

(4)

Compost

(5)Recycled PETE plastic (#1 pop bottles) can be made into carpets, clothing and upholstery

(6)

Aluminum Can

(tin cans are not as light weight)

(7)

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle

(8)

Paper

(9)

Waste includes garbage, reusable and recyclable material.

(10)

Bacteria

(11)

Plastic Classification Code or

1,2,3,4,5,6,7

(12)

Steel

(13)

Refuse

(14)

Post-consumer paper

(15)

Power of One

(16)

Vermicomposting

(17)

X-large shirt

(50% fortrel ecospun, 50% cotton)

(18)

Recycled aluminum can

(19)

Crumb rubber made from vehicle tires (Canada).

Crushed glass (New Zealand)

(20)

Corrugated cardboard (OCC)

(21)Grasscycling

(22)

Decayed organic (plant and animal) part of soil.

(23)

Glass

(24)

1 tonne

(1000 kg)

Recycled steel

(25) Recycled oil is used in the boilers that make road asphalt in Sask. Asphalt shingles are used to make road asphalt elsewhere.

(26)

Pulp

(27)Beverage container plastic is made from polyethylene teraphthalate (pete)

(28)Oxygen can be stirred into an anaerobic pile to encourage aerobic bacterial action.

(29)

Cullet

(30)

100 % - electric arc furnaces only accept scrap steel

(31)

Electronic waste

(e-waste)

(32)

20,964 paper tissue boxes

Or 4,351 daily newspapers.


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