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Composting As Recycling

For Students 6th - 8th
In this environment worksheet, students use a milk jug and worms to demonstrate how garbage can be biodegradable in the right conditions.
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Ocean Pollution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study their role in eliminating ocean pollution and helping keep the oceans clean. In this environmental issues lesson, students define pollution and brainstorm examples of ocean pollution. Students define biodegradable and...
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Composting -- Nature's Disappearing Act

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Studenst work together to discover the concept of biodegradability. They build a model of a landfill and how different items decompose. They examine how engineers use this information for better waste management.
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Investigating the Compost

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are introduced to the concept of biodegradability. In groups, they use the internet to research the types of materials that affect the process. They collect materials from their local community and develop an experiment...
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Tee Off!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore about one of the many products created by gain-based process. They investigate the ways agriculture can protect and preserve the environment. Pupils use their scientific processing skills to conduct a full inquiry based...
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Environment: Methane Sources

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover how human activity is increasing the release of methane gas into the atmosphere. Woring in groups, they visit the Eduzone Website and complete worksheets. Students identify the natural and human causes of methane gas.
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Landfills

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars explore the roles of sanitary landfills. They diagram the construction of a landfill and visit a local landfill.
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The Rotten Truth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils study the process of decomposition using lunch leftovers and soil. They complete the inquiry over set periods time as they observe the how composting takes place and finally, they sort the materials into biodegradable,...
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Exploring the Physical and Chemical Properties of Polymers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students determine the physical and chemical properties of polymers. In this chemistry lesson plan, students test them for biodegradability. They collect data and compare their results.
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Forest Foundation

Waste Not - Want Not

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Recycling is the focus in the sixth of a nine-activity series devoted to forest ecosystems. Class members read an article about the responsible use of natural resources and ways to reduce land fill.
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Solid Waste and Recycling

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars 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....
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Kernel Count!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is an impressive and thorough lesson on estimation. Young mathematicians estimate how many kernels of popcorn can fit in a tablespoon, then how many tablespoons of kernels can fit in a baby food jar. The popcorn is then popped. All...
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Plantable Pulp Cards

For Teachers K - 8th
What a great way to give a gift that keeps on giving! These homemade plantable cards are not only beautiful, but can be planted into the ground to sprout in the right season. Incorporate this project in a science unit, or for a Mother's...
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San José State University

Organizational Patterns for the Comparison/Contrast Essay

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Organization is key in essay writing. The two organizational charts included in this resource model the block approach and the point-by-point approach to organizing a compare and contrast style essay. After examining the charts, writers...
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Teach Engineering

Magnetic Fluids

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Teams work as material engineers to create ferrofluids, whose shape is influenced by magnetic fields. The activity, which is the fourth in the six-part series, has the teams create magnetic ink and use it to write, testing it with a...
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Royal Society of Chemistry

Green Plastics—Chemistry Outreach

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
How do green plastics reduce waste and environmental pollution? Budding scientists create and test a variety of compounds used in green plastics during an insightful experiment. Beginning with startling statistics and ending with...
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American Museum of Natural History

If Trash Could Talk

For Students 6th - 12th
Trash can talk! Young archaeologists dig through their trash to see what it reveals about their lives. After they examine their midden, links permit users to test their knowledge of archaeology with a 10-questions quiz, learn how...
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"Cereal" Comic Strip

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss how wheat is important to our everyday lives, from food to insulation, focusing on how wheat grains are processed into food items. Students then create a comic strip of the steps of processing grain to demonstrate...
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Cleaning Up With Decomposers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners read and discuss decomposers and how they affect the environment. In this decomposers lesson plan, students also discuss how engineers use decomposers to help the environment.
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Bioplastics

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students define bioplastics and identify its uses.  In this bioplastics lesson, students compare and contrast styrofoam to starch peanuts after careful examination.  Students understand what biodegradeable means.
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The Six Faces of Garbage

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the mathematics of surface area to approach the problem of garbage pollution from the classroom. After watching a video, students construct replicas of cereal boxes and compute their surface area.
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The Effects of Trash and Garbage On the Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students recognize the importance of solid waste management. In this science lesson plan, students analyze individual solid waste management habits as they enhance their knowledge of solid waste disposal and the recycling process.
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Genetics the Easy Way

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use recyclable trash to construct a Recycle Critter family. They calculate the probability of the phenotype of the offspring that two heterozygous parents produced.
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COMPOSTING: WHY BOTHER?

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the composting process and participate in a contest to make the most compost the fastest from the school's kitchen and yard waste.

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