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- 3rd
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Students predict what happen in two (control and experiment) containers -- one with soil and trash, the other with soil, trash, and worms. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students label boxes and sort trash into those items that can be recycled, composted, incinerated or taken to the landfill. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students determine the differences between reusable, compostable and recyclable trash. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students discuss what happens to trash after it is collected. They sort "clean" trash into groups depending on whether it should be recycled, incinerated, placed in a landfill, composted or if it is something we could avoid using. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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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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- 3rd - 4th
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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
- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students sort trash bags according to their own ideas about trash. They review vocabulary words and read a trade book on recycling. Students create their own definition of pollution and discuss what they can do to reduce pollution. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students study and investigate why worms are called "nature's recyclers". They predict what will happen in two different containers-one with soil and trash, and one with soil, trash, and worms. Finally students discuss how worms help to solve environmental problems. Full Review »
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