9. RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION: MAKING YOUR OWN NATURAL CLEANING PRODUCTS Grade: 2nd Secondary Education Subject: Responsible Consumption; Lesson title: Natural Cleaning Products; Time: 2 hours; Learning Unit: How to make natural cleaning products Targeted competencies: Knowledge: Students learn about: Pollution and how some cleaning products pollute the air and the Earth. How to read and interpretate labels. How to make natural products. Abilities: Students will learn about some of the dangers associated with traditional cleaning products, that have chemicals in them, and how they can make their own natural, affordable cleaning products without any of the hazards. They will research other types of cleaning products and help green their family's home environment. Students learn to follow and execute instructions to prepare and elaborate glycerin soap and multipurpose natural cleaning. Attitudes: They will also be introduced to the Environmental Working Group's resources about Household Cleaning Products, which they can use to research other types of cleaning products and help greentheir family's home environment. Students will then develop a campaign to transition to safer cleaning products in schools and inform other students to do the same. Students will develop a campaign to transition to safer cleaning products and inform other studentsto do the same. Resources: Essential oil, glasses, vinegar, spray bottles, Gglycerin, rubbing alcohol, soap molds, Computer, interactive board and projector. Methodical guidelines: Students learned about the problems with most of cleaning products and the consecuences of their use. Later,they brainstorm cleaning products that their families use at homeand learn to read the labels of these products.Then, they will learn how they can help the earth by cleaning green, using everyday natural products, that have no chemicals and do not pollute the Earth. Finally the will make a natural multipurpose cleaning product and glycerin soap. Thew will take the ecological products to use them at home.
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