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- Grade Range
- 1st - 5th
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Students iscuss how landfills take up valuable land. Two groups on the outer areas are the recyclers. Their mission is to pass balls back and forth between the landfill fillers as many times as they can so that the balls can be recycled. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students explore how a sanitary landfill is made and operates, and explain some of the associated pollution problems. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students observe the difference between degradable and non-degradable wastes. They create their own landfill in a jar by adding four or five pieces of garbage and then covering it with dirt and water. They make observations on what they see. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students discuss what happens to trash after it is collected. They sort "clean" trash into groups depending on whether it should be recycled, incinerated, placed in a landfill, composted or if it is something we could avoid using. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discover that waste disposal has been an ongoing problem since medieval times. In this lesson, students explore the three methods of waste disposal in use by modern communities. They also investigate how engineers design sanitary landfills to prevent leachate from polluting the underlining groundwater. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students examine how a sanitary landfill is constructed, how it functions, and how waste and leachate affects the areas around the landfill. After a discussion about landfills and leachates, students construct a Sanitary Landfill Model and collect data on the runoff from simulated rainfall. Students also conduct three other experiments using leachate from their landfills-How leachate contaminates groundwater, How leachate affects plants, and How leachate affects living things. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use the internet to research articles on garbage, landfills and the environment. In groups, they identify ways to conserve or recycle materials found in landfills and determine the future of a local landfill. They share their ideas with the class and answer questions posed to them. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students are able to list the types of household waste that they produce daily. They are able to describe some other types of waste that are produced by industry or agriculture to help maintain their lifestyles. Students are able to explain the fate of some of their household waste. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students explore landfills, composition rates, and saving natural resources. Using jars, students create four sample landfills, one for each basic category of solid waste. Over time, students observe and chart what happens to the various kinds of waste over a given period of time. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students create a proposal to solve Wake County's problem with losing the North Wake landfill in such a way that: a new landfill site is agreed upon, Solid-wase disposal is in compliance with Local and State landfill regulations and waste disposal is safe and convenient. Full Review »