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Back in 2003 my mum helped me sew the pockets together for the ‘prototype’ for what is now known as the ‘Target 1000 pockets’. I trialled this resources in my own classroom over 5 years and every year it successfully helped my students to gain a deep understanding of place value.
Ever since I have been sharing the ‘Target 1000 pockets’ idea with teachers through my PD sessions. Every time I share it, teachers ask if I could save the ‘sewing’ time and create a version that they could buy, so after 21 years… it is finally here!
‘Target 1000’ centres around you setting the challenge for your class to collect 1000 bottle tops so as to help reduce the amount of landfill in Australia (and as an added bonus have a daily review of counting and place value!).
Did you know that often items smaller than a credit card (for example bottle top lids) cannot be recycled in Australia and therefore become landfill?
The Target 1000 pockets enable your class to organise and display the bottle tops they collect over the year. Students are encouraged to recycle bottle tops- HPPE #2 or HPPE #5 yoghurt lids from their house and bring them into the classroom.
Each day, usually just before the end of the day bell, I would ask my students to bring out the bottle tops they had collected and we would use the ‘Target 1000’ pockets to count them.
First we would fill the blue ‘ones’ pockets. Then when we filled 10 ‘ones’ pockets we would rename them as ‘1 ten’ and place them in a red ‘tens’ pocket.
Each day we would update the number flip chat (included with the product) to represent the number of lids. The following day we would repeat the process.
Once we filled 10 red ‘tens’ pockets we would then transfer them to the individual ‘1 ten’ pockets and place them in the yellow ‘hundred’ pocket. Placing the ten full ‘1 ten’ pockets in the ‘hundred’ pocket was a great visual reminder that within 1 hundred there are 10 tens and within each ten there are 10 ones.
This was a brilliant way to create a concrete representation for the notoriously abstract idea of renaming.
Over the year we built our collection and eventually reached our target of 1000 bottle tops.
A couple of my classes were so enthusiastic they wanted to keep going beyond 1000!
Back in the day I placed all 1000 lids in a photocopy paper box marked ‘1 thousand’ but you can use the bag provided to house the 1000 lids.
This product allows you to run a practical, simple, visual daily review of critical place value ideas in your classroom.
PS: If you are wondering what to do with the bottle tops once you have finished collecting them, in Australia we have a wonderful initiative called the Banish Recycling And Disposal Program (BRAD) which happily collects and recycles HPPE #2,#4 and #5 lids. You can simply send the lids in a photocopy paper box to BRAD and they will recycle the lids and turn them into amazing plastic items such as plates, bowls and pens!
Dimensions: 216cm x 60 cm (pockets)
Includes: Nylon Carry Bag, 100 x ‘1 ten pockets’ (16cm x 8cm), 4 x reinforced eyehook holes, 4 x sticky hooks 1 x place value column flip chart
