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Recycling Teacher Resources
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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.
Students explore recycling and how it benefits our environment. For this recycling lesson, students learn to determine if an item is recyclable and sort it into 7 various categories. Students discover how aluminum, glass, plastic, cardboard, metal, and paper are reused to create new things. Students study English words alongside Spanish words and play a recycling game.
Students compose songs about recycling. In this ecology lesson, students use vocabulary and concepts related to recycling to generate lyrics for an original song. Students construct musical instruments out of discarded materials.
Students explore the concept of waste management. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students study the nuances of the terms reduce, reuse, and recycle. Students investigate ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle many everyday items as they collect their ideas for a book.
Second graders explore recycling. In this environmental lesson, 2nd graders read the book Recycle: A Handbook for Kids and brainstorm ways to reuse their trash that they throw away. Students write their ideas down on recycled paper.
Students explore the benefits of recycling. In this recycling activity, students develop a poster to encourage others to recycle. Students present their poster to their classmates and hang the finished posters around the school building.
Third graders observe the importance of recycling. In this environmental lesson, 3rd graders will view experiments on water filtration, paper-making, and breathing pollutants, and will categorize recyclable materials.
Students examine recyclables for their local area. In this recycling instructional activity, students create out a lunchtime waste removal project. Students record waste on a tally chart and make conclusions about their results. Students will share their results with other students in the school
In this recycling worksheet, students complete the activities in a 19 page activity book pertaining to reducing, reusing and recycling. Included are: coloring, crafts, fill in the blanks, dot to dot, mazes, word search and crossword puzzles.
Young scholars explore the recycling process. In this recycling lesson, students gain understanding of how garbage is disposed of. Young scholars makes lists of things that can be recycled. Students discuss how animals and plants are damaged by garbage. Young scholars create recycling webs.