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- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students explain the economic and ecological importance of recycling after studying the relationship between recycling and conservation of natural resources. 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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- 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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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students examine the difference between recyclables, biodegradables, and the leftover that must be disposed of. They collect the trash which accumulated in the classroom after one day and separate it into three categories. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students demonstrate effects of waste on environment and ways of reducing it, observe how much packaging goes into bag lunches each day, and survey their families to assess awareness levels and household recycling practices. Lessons all on one page. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students examine how to deal with the amount of trash in their community. They discover alternate ways of managing waste. They develop their own solutions to the problem. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students encounter the importance of three principles: reduce, reuse, and recycle. They place an emphasis on natural resources. Students comprehend how each of these principles contributes to the larger trash problem that exists in our world today. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students work with re-usable and recyclable items to create an invention. Students discuss the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle and brainstorm ways to reduce and reuse paper before being challenged to make something useful out of trash. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students experience a hands-on environmental science project. They access about recycling as they collect data on their own family's trash production. Students analyze the data with worksheets, chart the data, and present their findings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students are introduced to the concept of reuse, recycle and reduce. Using the internet, they identify the major companies that are causing the problem of growing trash. They research the methods of conservation used by companies and discuss how to reduce at home. Full Review »
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