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All Wrapped Up
Students explore packaging. In this cross-curriculum lesson, students bring in samples of food packaging and identify the packaging as natural or manufactured.
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Positively Paper
Students study concepts related to paper recycling. In this recycling lesson, they investigate the chemical processes used to recycle paper, and look at the environmental problems associated with using and recycling different types of...
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Stamp It!
Students explore environmental issues through art. For this stamp lesson, students use preconsumer waste paper and colored pencils to create rubber stamp designs. This is an environmentally safe lesson.
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Everything's Connected
Students explore how trash decomposes. In this ecosystem instructional activity, students discuss new vocabulary words, such as producers and consumers, and think critically to answer how landfills work.
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Junk Mail Jewelry
Students create jewelry from junk mail. In this visual art lesson, students use junk mail to design necklaces and bracelets.
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Take It Apart; Put It Together
Students design various items from recyclable materials. In this environmental friendly lesson, students study the construction of gift bags, envelopes and pocket folders and take them apart to make templates. Students construct their...
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What Should I Recycle?
First graders discuss a plan to minimize waste. In this waste management lesson, 1st graders read "Why Should I Recycle," by Jen Green and create a classroom recycling plan.
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Recipe For Recycling
In this recycling activity worksheet, students follow a given "recipe" to make recycled paper using a blender, then create a picture, card or collage with the material.
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Sunny Sam Activity Sheet
In these recycling worksheets, students connect the dots and color the 2 pictures for the recycling bins. Students circle items that would be placed in each bin with blue and yellow crayons. Students complete a maze and find 10 things in...
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Recycle These in Blue Bin
In this recyclable materials learning exercise, students cut out the puzzle pieces and scramble them. Students then put the puzzle of recyclable materials together again.
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Composting
In this composting worksheet, students read an informative paragraph about composting and then respond to 7 short answer questions regarding the topic.
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In the Wrong Place
In this sorting the recycling learning exercise, students examine the 9 pictured items in a waste bin and respond to 9 fill in the blank questions that reveal what should be done with each of the items.
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Recycle Right!
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students read the clues related to recycling. Students use the clues to find 16 words to complete the crossword puzzle.
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Recycling Pals Coloring Page
In this recycling coloring worksheet, learners color the six recycling characters pictured. Students then follow the 6 sets of instructions that challenge them to draw recycling pictures of their own.
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Milk Mon' Activity Sheet
In this recycling worksheet, students color pictures of recycling bins either yellow or blue. They identify 7 items that can be recycled in the blue bin, and tell 5 things that can be recycled in the yellow bin. They color a recycling...
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Put In the Correct Order (Recycling)
For this recycling worksheet, students read 7 sentences about the recycling process that are out of order. Students write out the sentences in the correct order.
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Paper, Plastic, Glass, and Metal Recycling
In this recycling worksheet, students complete 4 pages with 5 essay questions each. The pages are about plastic, glass, metal, and paper recycling. Research will be needed. This is best suited for students in the UK.
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Recycling Relay Race
Students identify the reasons why recycling is important. In this recycling lesson, students practice sorting plastics into categories using recycling bins and types of plastics.
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Recycling
Students investigate landfills and the problems associated with urban and suburban areas. In this recycling lesson plan, students discuss landfills and the problems associated with landfills. They discuss the amount of waste an...
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Recycle Today
For this recycling worksheet, students use a recycling directory from their county to complete a worksheet about the location of where to recycle particular items such as mulch, chemicals and electronics. They identify local recycling...
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Recycling
Fourth graders gain an awareness of recycling. In this science lesson plan, 4th graders become aware of how much garbage we can produce, identify landfills and their purposes, and explain how recycling saves energy and resources while...
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Landfill Word Search
In this landfill learning exercise, students find 11 words associated with modern landfills such as hazardous waste and municipal waste in this landfill word search.
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Resources
In this resources worksheet, learners review how reducing, reusing, and recycling help to conserve resources. Students compare renewable resources with non-renewable resource. This worksheet has 27 short answer questions.
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Where Does Our Rubbish Go?
In this environmental issues worksheet, 5th graders read a two page text with photographs and statistics about the 3 methods of getting rid of trash: recycling, burning, burying. There are no questions to answer but there are some...