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Environmental Benefits of Recycling

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders understand the benefits of recycling. In this recycling literacy instructional activity, 4th graders read an article and identify the main idea. Students understand the process of transfer to the landfill and discuss how...
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The Recycle Games

For Teachers K - 12th
Students play a series of Recycle Games which provide great exercise while teaching about the importance of recycling. They participate in relay races and games that make use of recycled materials and other "trash."
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Speak Up for Recycling

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Are you looking for ways to enhance a persuasive writing or speech unit? Use this instructional activity to prompt your young writers to investigate a school recycling program. After conducting research, they present a persuasive,...
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Plastic Sight Words

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Plastic math? Have young learners count and name the number of plastic items in their centers. Kindergartners match sight word cards to the number of plastics in a given group, while learning that plastics come in all different shapes,...
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Art and Influence of Theatre

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine an 18th century drawing and produce a skit based on the drawing. In this art analysis lesson, students analyze the story depicted in a drawing and create a skit inspired the scene. Young scholars research the 18th...
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Recycle, Reduce, Reuse and Save a Tree

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine how to save and protect trees.  In this conservation lesson, students read books about the usefulness of trees, write ideas in their journals about how trees can be used, and make a book of ways to protect trees.
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The Three R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students understand conservation terms. In this three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) lesson, students understand the importance of preserving a clean world and reducing waste. Students sing a song which show importance of 3R's.
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Fairy Tales

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Once upon a time are four words most children are familiar with when reading a fairy tale. But do they know that fairy tales are a great way to learn the literary elements of reading and writing? Use a thorough fairy tale unit to teach...
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Snap Associations

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice reinforcing and recycling a large amount of vocabulary terms by utilizing a set of pictures and then dividing into groups to begin their task for the day. They explain the connections to each other between their terms...
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Recycling Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in activities to increase their vocabulary. They record new vocabulary words in notebooks. They explore word bags to revisit vocabulary words. They use the words in context, create circle stories, play pictionary and...
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Collocation Pelmanism

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils read and analyze the article, "Lexical exploitation of texts," and become aware of the concept of recycling new words. They practice this concept several times in class before they take on the memory game pelmanism in the follow...
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U.S. Geography: The Northeast

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars investigate U.S. Geography by creating a map in class. In this natural resource lesson, students create a map of the United States and research the Northeast based on their resources and recyclable materials.  Young...
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Tempera Paint Lesson Ideas

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create an abstract, non-objective paintings. Students use the various lesson plans to create abstract paintings that include an art with text instructional activity, a sand textured paint instructional activity, and a radiating...
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Excretory System

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
The subject of this life science reading comprehension worksheet is the excretory system. After examining the provided article, readers respond to a series of questions using evidence found in the text.
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Let's Clean Up Our Act and the Earth!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students complete activities that help clean up the Earth and protect the environment. In this Earth protection lesson, students go outside and listen to the environment. Students discuss their observations and their role in protecting...
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When is a Block, not a Block?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use a stamped shape image to create a piece of imaginative art. In this stamped art lesson, students use a stamped shape as a starting point to create their own imaginative piece of art that incorporates the stamped shape.
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Making Paper

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore how natural earth materials are processed into a human-made product. They simulate a manufacturing process by making paper. Students review the importance of recycling in preserving our natural earth resources.
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Ecosystem Energizers

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders see how the flow of energy through an ecosystem made up of producers, consumers, and decomposers carries out the processes of life and that some energy dissipates as heat and is not recycled.
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Writing a Political Leader

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students investigate politics by writing a formal letter. For this U.S. Government lesson, students discuss political issues they would like to address and research their topic using the Internet. Students locate an appropriate political...
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Snap Associations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students review vocabulary. In groups, they discuss and define vocabulary words. Students match vocabulary words to pictures. They list as many words as possible to match to a picture. Groups of students discuss their picture and...
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Words In Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students participate in activities to review vocabulary words. They complete worksheets, play games, discuss the correctness of particular sentences. Students check spelling and sentence structure. They read corrected sentences to the...
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Beyond Benign

Plastic Bags

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Paper or plastic? Explore the environmental effects of using plastic bags through mathematics. Learners manipulate worldwide data on plastic bag consumption to draw conclusions.
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice sorting books. In this sorting lesson, students play the Flood Game on the PBS web site. With knowledge of the sorting system used by libraries, students sort small numbers of books using categories devised by their...
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Action Words

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover that a verb is a word that expresses an action. Students at this age might find it more accessible to use everyday terminology, such as doing words or action words.

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