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- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students investigate the economic and ecological importance of recycling. 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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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students engage in a discussion about the benefits of recycling. They work in groups, and sort a variety of recyclable items into appropriate containers. If possible, a class trip to the local recycling facility would be an excellent activity. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students complete a variety of activities designed to encourage them to explore recycling. They complete a quiz and worksheet, sort recyclable items and discuss how recyclable goods are identified. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students participate activities related to recycling in this unit. They examine how recycling is good for the environment and how to make their ideas heard. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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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. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students relate recycling to their everyday lives and responsibilities. They define recycling and write a short paragraph regarding who should recycle. in addition, they sort certain recyclable products, play the "Clean up Treasure Hunt" and create a luscious layered landfill. Full Review »
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- 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 - 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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