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- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students find out where some of the products in hour homes come from, then become aware of our local trash, landfills and incinerators. They chart and graph data and use maps for different purposes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss landfills and the amount of waste an individual family produces. They play a simulation game about recycling and discuss setting up a home recycling center. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students review the garbage/landfill graphs included with the lesson. They discuss the information on the graphs and discuss which garbage products come from their homes. Students collect examples of over packaging to share with class members. Students survey their school to identify missed recycling opportunities. The class develops a plan for recycling in their school. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students examine amount of garbage disposed of by average household weekly, classify different categories of garbage and describe composition of landfills, investigate what happens to waste after it is collected by garbage trucks, and create garbage pizza graph based on amount of garbage in each category. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students recreate landfills in petri dishes, observe relative biodegradability in a year-long project, and isolate a cellulose degrading bacteria while discovering the need for recycling and the serious problem waste management has become for land-scarce communities. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students create a pizza pie graph of materials commonly found in landfills. Working in groups, they create a pizza crust and use commonly found trash items as the toping so represent the distribution of materials found in a landfill. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students view a clip of a landfill on the computer. They explore a landfill website and research some facts. They then click on a link titles "Let's Talk Trash and take a trivia quiz. Finally students review the facts on landfills again and print of some facts they find interesting. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students discuss, explain, and classify solid waste. They calculate the percentages of materials dumped in landfills. Students list materials that are recyclable and estimate the impact on waste reduction by recycling. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students weigh the opportunity cost of dumping trash and waste from the city into a large hole in the ground instead of dumping the trash into a landfill that has been properly prepared according to EPA standards. Students be divided into groups of four and each group be given different scenarios to base their choices off of. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students prepare miniature landfills that are filled with everyday items. They hypothesize whcih biodegrades and which does not and students provide a reason. Students get enough soil in their containers to cover the bottom of the container. Full Review »
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