Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Patterns in Resource Consumption
This collection of three learning modules looks at issues related to resource consumption. It examines theories about how population size affects consumption, the changing patterns of energy consumption, and ways to minimize consumption....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Every American Recycling Together Helps
Lesson where students learn about recycling by collecting trash from the schoolyard and watching a podcast about recycling. Additional activities are provided corresponding to different subject areas, such as reading, math, social...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Create a New Climate for Action
The wealth of information and tools available on this site will assist students and teachers to develop and promote active awareness of the impact human beings have on the environment. Resources are provided to guide them in how to lead...
Other
Think Green: Think Waste Management
Find out how waste can be recycled and what you can do to aid recycling efforts in your community. With complete overviews of the types of materials that can be recycled: e-waste, paper and cardboard, metals, glass, plastics,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: What Is Recycling?
This tutorial provides an explanation of what recycling is and how you can be a part of conserving your resources.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Land, Waste, and Cleanup Topics
This site is loaded with information on solid waste and hazardous waste. It includes industries' effects on the environment, waste programs, treatment, control, pollution prevention, recycling, and cleanup programs.
Other
Siemens Science Day: Physical Science: Recycled Again!
Students will discover how to separate recycled goods by completing this hands-on science activity. Learn how physical properties are used to sort recyclable materials.
PBS
Pbs: Independent Lens: Garbage Dreams
Garbage Dreams is a documentary film that follows the lives of the Zabbaleen, people in Cairo who have been collecting garbage for a hundred years. But garbage collection has been contracted out to companies who do a poor job of...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Wee Recyclers and Wee Crafts
A collection of educational materials - coloring pages, stories, games, lesson plans, activity sheets, etc. - for young children to learn how to recycle and why it is so important.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Scratch Paper Sketch Pad
Kids at Art emphasizes the importance of recycling and conservation with this simple way to reuse paper for drawing purposes.
Other
College of Du Page: Energy in an Ecosystem
Ecosystems contain two kinds of commodities: matter (nutrients) and energy. Nutrients cycle through the ecosystem, available for repeated use by organisms. These cycles of use and reuse are called biogeochemical cycles. Energy instead is...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Carbon Cycle
The carbon cycle is one of the most important cycles. It is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth. This cycle is important because it...
Read Works
Read Works: Get in the Loop!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the steps of recycling and tips for reusing and recycling. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Tech in Ctrl: Ethics/copyright: What's Mine Isn't (Necessarily) Yours
Sharing, reusing, or copying content is so easy that rarely do we pause to think about its original source. This lesson will give students the tools to navigate this often-complicated world of digital media and mass information by...
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: Caption This
In this activity, students learn how to copy an image from the Internet and follow copyright. Images must be in the public domain and free from copyright protection. They can be copied from Google, but they have to be public domain and...
Other
W3schools: Java Methods
Learn why to use methods to reuse code: define the code once, and use it many times.
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: The Tailor
Megan Hicks uses origami and storytelling to celebrate the ingenuity of a grandmother who reuses a piece of fabric in a number of beautiful ways.
Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 5, Issue 7: The Art of Recycling [Pdf]
Read this magazine article to learn how recycled materials can be turned into works of art and the statement the artist is making.
Other
Commercial Paving and Recycling
This site describes products, services, and technology incorporated to recycle construction and demolition wastes in order to reduce the amount of waste destined for the landfill.
Read Works
Read Works: Take Care of Our Planet
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about solving the problem of landfills. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Earth Science: Use and Conservation of Resources
Looks at how people use natural resources and ways to conserve natural resources in this module. Module reviews over conservation, natural resources, and precycling with explanations, graphs, and pictures.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Classroom Paper Recycling
Students learn about the engineering design process as they devlop their own recycled paper using everyday materials. The objective of the lesson is to learn how chemical engineers work in teams to develop and improve the manufacturing...
SRI International
Performance Assessment Links in Science: Discovering the Problem of Solid Waste
This activity has students sort garbage, graph their results and propose ways of reducing waste.
abcteach
Abcteach: Earth Day Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] How can you treat the earth with more respect? Check out this resource featuring links to elementary activities to celebrate Earth Day. You will find word searches, crossword puzzles, reading...
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