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232 Trash & recycling assessment Lesson Plans

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Grade Range
9th
Rating
3 Stars

Students classify trash into categories, learn options for dealing with trash, and consider problems that exist with landfills through these activities. Full Review »

Grade Range
1st - 2nd
Rating
3 Stars

Students classify trash and place them in the correct recycling bin. They identify objects that can be made from recycled materials. They discover the importance of recycling and create an object with recyclable materials. Full Review »

Grade Range
5th - 8th
Rating
3 Stars

Students investigate the economic and ecological importance of recycling. Full Review »

Grade Range
3rd - 8th
Rating
3 Stars

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
3rd - 5th
Rating
3 Stars

Students work together in groups to collect and categorize the class's solid waste items. They sort the garbage into recyclable and non-recyclable items. They discuss ways in which engineers have helped to reduce the amount of solid waste. Full Review »

Grade Range
3rd - 5th
Rating
4 Stars

Students collect and categorize solid waste produced in the classroom. They weigh the waste that has been collected over one week's time, and separate it into recyclable and non-recyclable waste. They talk about the role of engineers in reducing and recycling solid waste. Full Review »

Grade Range
Kindergarten
Rating
3 Stars

Students examine the concepts of recycling and reusing. They define recycling and reusing, and examine various trash items and determine whether they can be recycled or reused. Students then create a "Litter Bug" to put next to a trash can to remind them to recycle. Full Review »

Grade Range
3rd - 4th
Rating
4 Stars

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 »

Grade Range
2nd
Rating
3 Stars

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 - 8th
Rating
3 Stars

Students work in cooperative groups to estimate how long trash lasts in a landfill. They study environmental consequences of not recycling and use graph-making software to create a graph that illustrates the lifespan of trash items discussed in the activity. Full Review »