Tips on Recycled ManipulativesCamelia Lincoln

How can we use recycled manipulatives as an ESL strategy?0 Demonstrate; use recycled

colorful manipulatives.0 Whenever possible, accompany

your message with gestures, pictures and objects that help get the

0 meaning across. Use a variety of different pictures or

0 objects for the same idea. MODEL, MODEL, MODEL.

0 Make use of all senses especially: visual & tactile

0 Organization is also very important.

0Social responsibility is for all!

0Teach social studies, science, math, art, language arts, vocabulary and more with recycled manipulatives.

Ideas for manipulatives: we can use recycle items

0Recycle 0Water bottle tops used as counters for math,

0Roles of used paper towel rolls for geometry

0Kleenex boxes for vocabulary word bank

0Used construction paper for art (collage)

0News papers to cut words for the word bank

Tips on how to organize recycled manipulatives

0 http://www.hgtv.com/homekeeping/clever-organizers-can-the-clutter/pictures/index.html

0 1-Clutter Cups0 Recycle and organize the

classroom with magnetic tin cans. Hot-glue heavy-duty magnets to 10 soup cans and stick them to a steel cookie sheet. Hang it within kids' reach using a plate hanger. Use the cups to hold recycled crayons, chalk, and markers. Label the cans for easy identification and access to students.

Label the drawer recycled items

0 2 Great Dividers0 Cleaning a dozen tuna cans

and nestling them into a drawer to hold recycled items to be used as manipulatives.

0 Beads for art 0 Rubber bands for

science(sound) lesson0 Color paper clips used as

counters for math0 Example: We have 3

red+2pink+4blue=9 color clips

Responsible Science

0 Garden Lesson0 Recycle gorgeous cans

with graphics of tomatoes, corn and green beans, or whatever you plan to teach students how to plant. Make it a colorful lesson students can lay hands on.

Realia as a manipulative

0 African realia : Necklace made out of used magazines and newspapers

0 Use it to teach social studies and math.

0 Learning about Kenya, Africa

0 Counting, adding all the beads then subtracting all the white beads (math)