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Is buying mineral water pouring money (and water) down the drain? Find out by running the Lose Your Bottle activity.

Students will carry out an audit of how much bottled water other students at school use, then run a campaign to make everyone aware of the benefits of refilling bottles from the tap instead of buying new ones.

Your step-by-step guide to getting started and all the resources you need are below.

Good luck!

Info

There are opportunities to use this activity when teaching these subjects:

England: Citizenship & PSHE, Science, Design & Technology, English

Scotland: Technologies, Literacy & English, Expressive Arts, Social Studies, Health & Wellbeing

Wales: English, Geography, Design & Technology, Art & Design, PSE

Northern Ireland: The World Around Us, Language & Literacy, The Arts, PD&MU

For more information, see the curriculum guide.

Get Started

Read the resource pack
Run your 'start audit'. This will start your blog.
Run the activity - update your blog with information and pictures
Run your 'end audit'
Submit your blog for a medal
If you win a medal, download a free certificate for your class!
Check the savings you've made on your podometer

Run start audit

Resources

Use these resources to help plan and complete the activity:

How other schools did it:

Read a Lessons Learned report:

Kedington Primary School

How you can win a medal

Podometers

When you finish an activity we use your start and end audits to count your activities and measure any savings you make. You can track your savings using your school's pod-o-meters.

Eco-schools England

This 'medium' activity contributes significantly towards an Eco-Schools Silver Award. Two or more will contribute towards a Green Flag application.

Remember you will need to complete an Eco-Schools formal environmental review and detailed action plan to meet Silver Award criteria.

For more information go to www.eco-schools.org.uk/apply.