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Trash a Pizza!

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students investigate data about America's trash production. In this environmental lesson, students use statistics about what we throw away to create an art pie chart project called a "trash pizza."
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Garbage or Art?

For Teachers 3rd
The three R's are, reduce, reuse, and recycle. Third graders use recycled materials to design and create an environmentally themed piece of art. They discuss and examine major art works that were created using recycled materials, then...
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Disposing Garbage

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore environmental cleanliness by completing a worksheet in class. In this waste management lesson, students identify the technological advances in society and how they increase waste production our planet is unable to deal...
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Garbage Maze

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this cat and garbage maze puzzle worksheet, students help a cat figure out the best route through a maze to get to the fish bones he dropped out of a garbage can.
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Trash or Treat

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this recycling learning exercise, students determine how they can reuse items that were considered to be trash to make a Halloween mask. They determine the cost of the handmade mask as compared to a store bought one.
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Clean Up Hazardous Waste!

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students identify sources of home hazardous waste and create posters to educate the community about how to handle hazardous wastes.
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Garbage Sack Snowman

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a snowman out of garbage sacks and newspaper stuffed within the garbage sacks. In this art lesson, students draw a face on the small sack and place the sacks on top of each other like a snowman. Students then dress the...
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Turning the Tide on Trash: Marine Debris Curriculum

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Six different lessons comprise this unit on marine debris. Science, language arts, social studies, and art projects make this an ideal interdisciplinary unit. The result will be well-informed future citizens who can help make a...
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Dumptown, USA: Making a Ton of Difference

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the recycling system in the United States by participating in an online activity.  In this environmental care lesson, students research what makes up our trash output in this country and where it goes....
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Pick It Up!

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars investigate recycling by creating receptacles that can hold trash or recyclable items.  In this graphic design lesson, students encourage their classmates to help save the environment by using a recycling receptacle they...
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Garbage Bag Costume Creation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create plastic bag costumes for a short scene developed in the classroom. Performances and assessment occur at the end of this quick instructional activity. A very creative mini-project for theatre arts classes.
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Litter From Lunchtime

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore environmental care by participating in a litter identification activity. In this food trash lesson, students discuss the destruction litter causes in our environment and ways we can avoid littering ourselves. Students...
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Trash to Treasures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers analyze the artwork of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. In this service project analysis, students create interpretations of their service experience. Middle schoolers reflect in words utilizing the "I Am" Model. The student...
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Litter Critters

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Explore biology by conducting an organism search field trip! Young explorers discuss how litter impacts the environment and how some organisms find solace in the trash we leave behind. Several worksheets are included here. 
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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Teach children that just because something is old, doesn't mean you have to throw it away with a reading of Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback. Engaging children with an arts and crafts activity in which they patch the holes in...
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Lesson: Litter Hunt

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the issue of littering. In this waste management lesson, students discover what littering is and how it affects the environment.
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Don't Forget the Three R's

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students encourage one another in recycling. In this environment and art lesson, students create a new recycling bin that would help people in remembering to recycle.
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Junk Mail Overload!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discuss the "junk mail nuisance" with the teacher and share their opinions on the problem. Students collect a week's worth of junk mail, bring to class and complete a chart about the amount and weight. Students then complete an...
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Trash Collage

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a collage. In this collage lesson, students read a poem from Shel Silverstein and create an illustration to accompany the poem.
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Garbage: A Puppet's Paradise

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make puppets from recycled materials. In this puppetry and recycling instructional activity, students investigate different types of puppets and their uses. They make puppets using mostly recycled materials such as old socks,...
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Your Trash, My Treasure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create their own sculpture representing the idea of environmental responsibility and recycling. In this science lesson, students observe Les Constellations des Voisines du Pole by Joseph Cornell, make recycled paper, and use...
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Greeting Card Boxes: Recycled Art

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Greeting cards can be cute or pretty, and they end up in the trash. Turn your old greeting cards into a functional box. Learners fold, cut, and tape old cards to create small boxes that are perfect for holding paperclips, erasers, or...
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Puzzle Piece Frames

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Every class has a puzzle or two with missing pieces, don't trash them, use them for art. Great for framing a picture or self-portrait, this frame idea really comes together. Learners use old puzzle pieces to decorate a picture frame....
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Scientific Method in Action

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the current environmental movement by cleaning up their own campus.  In this environmental care lesson, students practice cleaning their "environment" by picking up trash on their campus and decrease litter by adding...

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