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- 9th
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Students classify trash into categories, learn options for dealing with trash, and consider problems that exist with landfills through these activities. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students discover which kinds of trash break down naturally and which do not when they make their own landfills. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students realize what leachate is, where it comes from and what its properties are. They know what makes up a landfill. In the lab an artificial landfill be set up and tested. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students visualize how much solid waste is generated for each person in Wisconsin. They explain how the number of people living in the state and country affects the amount of trash we generate and discuss the environmental effects. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify the types of solid waste and its effect on the environment. They build model landfills to understand what happens to their trash after it leaves their house. They discover the role of engineers in waste management. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Studenst work together to discover the concept of biodegradability. They build a model of a landfill and how different items decompose. They examine how engineers use this information for better waste management. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students eat two sack "lunches", examine video clips, and play a role playing game to investigate recycling and landfills in the United States. This lesson could be used as a cross-curricular activity involving Art, Language Arts, and Science. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the situation in Japan in which they are required to pay to recycle large appliances. They compare and contrast the incentives available to citizens of Japan and the United States who recycle. They predict how consumers might react when they have to pay a fee. In groups, they create strategies for reducing the amount of waste in landfills. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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The objective of this lesson is to teach students about the importance of recycling. Initially, students have a chance to think about their impact on our planet by following the path that garbage takes. Students then learn about how landfills work, and what kind of garbage fills up our landfills, by creating their own. Ultimately, students share their knowledge by creating a recycling poster campaign for their school. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students discover recyclable materials and the proper disposal of those items through Internet research. Working in groups of four, they search the Internet for uses of recyclable materials. After research is complete, they participate in a class activity and determine which new products were made from recyclable materials. Full Review »
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