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- Grade Range
- 1st - 8th
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Students determine the weight of paper waste generated by the class. They brainstorm ways to reduce and recycle. They make their own paper to demonstrate recycling. This lesson is very effective in demonstrating how recycling works. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students discuss the meaning of recycling and how recycling can improve our standard of living while fostering respect for the environment in which we live. They make a prototype of a new product to be manufactured from recycled materials. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students start an effective school recycling program. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students, in groups, formulate an estimate of how long some trash items might last in a landfill. They sort trash items according to attributes and graph their results. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 9th
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Students participate in a lesson that is focused on the concept of recycling. They conduct research to find out about the history of recycling and how it is done in the present day. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students apply what they have learned about throwaway products "and the valuable natural resources from which they're derived" by thinking about where garbage goes after they throw it out. They also examine their own ideas and habits about recycling and discover what a serious effect litter and mass waste disposal have on the environment. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students investigate how to reduce, reuse, and recycle, and ways to biodegrade and compost items. They explore a website and complete an online Treasure Hunt, and create a poster, or a television or newspaper ad. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students discuss how litter can affect the earth and they learn how recycling is a positive way to control litter. They work in small groups to go to the trash pile at the front of the room and pick trash out in order to make a collage. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students bring to school five items they would normally throw away and five items they would normally recycle. Expert groups are formed to present information on the recycling of glass, metal, plastic, and organics such as paper and food waste. Students study that many things we throw away can be recycled and some things we try to recycle will be thrown away. Full Review »
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