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Learners create plans in order to reduce solid waste. In this recycling lesson plan, students discuss and come up with plans to reduce consumption, reusing products, recycling materials, and composting and then present their plans to the class.
Students explore recycling. In this recycling lesson, students bring an item from home that can be recycled or reused. Students discuss what the item can be used for. Students then draw a picture of the new use and hang it and the item on a bulletin board.
What is composting? Introduce your class to one of the newest trends in respecting the environment. Start by reading one of three books (listed here) that discusses what composting is. Learners will then use the KWL chart they completed the day before to answer any questions they might have had. Why do we compost our garbage? Several additional activities are included here, but the link to the video "Reduce, Recycle, Compost" is not currently working.
In these paper recycling worksheets, students read 2 paragraphs about recycling paper. Students then complete a word search about related words, read facts about recycling, and create as many words as they can from the phrase 'Recycling matters at home and at school.'
Students investigate the recycling process. In this recycling lesson, students read the article The Recycling Process After Collection and discuss the advantages of recycling. As an extension activity, students simulate the molding of glass.
Students determine how engineers have improved the process for recycling paper. In this paper recycling and engineering lesson, students work in groups to recycle and make paper from the recycled paper.
Students explain reducing, recycling and reusing. In this science/ arts lesson, students create a commercial and display a backdrop made out of recycled goods. Additionally, students write written responses to writing prompts.
In this recycling and bar graph instructional activity, students complete a bar graph using the collected data given to them on recycling. Students calculate the answers to three questions relating to the bar graph.
Students examine their role in polluting the environment and discuss the importance of recycling. In groups, they place earthworms into compost piles to observe why they are considered natural recyclers. They also practice sorting a pile of materials into recycleable and non-recyclable objects. To end the lesson, they discover how paper and plastic are recycled.
Students play a game based on concentration or memory to place recyclable items into one of 4 groups. In this recycling lesson, students work in groups of 1-4 to place cards with pictures of various items into a Composting, Recycling, Hazmat, or Thrift Store category. Students also have the opportunity to earn extra credit.