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68 Trash & recycling rubric Lesson Plans
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- 9th
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Students classify trash into categories, learn options for dealing with trash, and consider problems that exist with landfills through these activities. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students investigate a contemporary "midden" by analyzing trash collected from various sources and determining life-style choices people make. They see that reducing the amount of waste we generate is helpful to the the environment. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students work together to make paper using screens, mixing bowls and toilet paper. They consider the importance of recycling to responsibly manage natural resources. 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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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Paper Lesson Plan - Students discover how paper is made. Working together, they make their own paper. This activity introduces students to recycling; what it is and its importance. Students study the process of how paper is made, and discover that almost half of all the trash produced by humans is paper. This lesson plan helps students see that recycling paper has many benefits, like helping the environment by saving trees and reducing the amount of trash dumped in landfills. Full Review »
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- 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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- 8th - 10th
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Students collect and analyze a sample of their school's trash. Using the items, they weigh them and calculate percentages to compare them with the national average. They idenity materials that can be recycled and discuss the benefits of reducing solid waste. Full Review »
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- 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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- 5th - 7th
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Students describe difference between renewable and non-renewable resources, match types of plastic with their recycling symbol designations, and list three products made from recycled plastic. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students design a new trash can that would not fall over in the wind. They are to solve the problem of trash blowning across the road which casue traffic problems. Students build their best design and test it in the wind. Full Review »
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