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Tell Someone About Earth Day

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Celebrate Earth Day by spreading the word of conservation. Teach children ten easy ways to help preserve the Earth and share this knowledge with others by sending e-cards and printable cards to loved ones. Extend learning about the...
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Curated OER

Trash or Treasure?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify things that can be reused. In this environmental lesson, students read the poem "Hector the Collector" and discuss the difference between junk and treasure. Students complete a reflection about what they read by...
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Curated OER

Earth Day: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners list ways to reduce, reuse and recycle, and produce an acrostic poem reflecting their understanding about Earth Day. They also use the Internet to integrate technology into learning.
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It's Not Easy Being Green

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students complete a unit that focuses on their school's waste production. They conduct a litter survey, collect the waste produced in their classroom for a week and generate a waste-audit, and identify how their school can minimize...
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Waste Management

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore the impact on waste on the environment, and the impact of the 3R's (reduce, reuse and recycle) as a means of diminishing the waste created by humans.
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Live Oak Media

Activity Guide: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Enhance a reading of the Caldecott Medal-winning children's book Joseph had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback with this collection of learning activities. Starting with general background information about the book and author,...
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Curated OER

Lesson 11 - Potable Water

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners investigate the meaning of potable water and water reuse. They define water quality and quantity problems. They complete worksheets, a quiz and design a poster.
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Popular Paper

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners explore the benefits of recycling paper. In this recycling lesson, students use statistics to calculate the amount of paper that is thrown away each week and construct a graph. Learners analyze the data and calculate the...
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Curated OER

The Magic School Bus Holiday Special

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students learn the importance of recycling as they explore how things can be reused or recycled again and again.
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Earth Day

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars complete a variety of Earth Day activities. In this recycling and the environment activity, students listen to Earth friendly music, create a car out of juice boxes, use soda cans and bottle caps to create a Halloween...
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Curated OER

Trash Inventions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders develop a plan to recycle trash. In this environmental science lesson plan, 2nd graders sketch their invention and construct it. They present the final product in class.
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Waste Not Want Not

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to the need to save natural resources. Through inquiry, hands-on activities, and problem solving, students increase their understanding of solid waste materials and the need to reduce, recycle, and reuse.
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Curated OER

The Case of the Broken Loop

For Students 4th - 5th
In this environmental awareness worksheet, students complete 8 pages pertaining to waste, landfills, recycling and composting. Included are: matching words and definitions, crossword puzzle, scrambled letters, a code, word search and a...
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Curated OER

A Lot Of Garbage

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students collect their own garbage. In this recycling lesson plan, students keep their own garbage for a day in their own personal garbage bag and then consider methods to reduce wastefulness.
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Curated OER

Scientific Inquiry, Episode 1

For Teachers K - 5th
Students look at ways to help the environment. For this recycling lesson, students watch a video on pollution and then collect trash at their school. They create posters to share with the school about the importance of recycling. 
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The Environment and You

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the human environmental impact and discover ways to lessen effects. They create a pollution damage flow chart and write down what they think Mother Earth might say. They create inventions from recyclable materials.
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Curated OER

Celebrating Earth Day

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore environmental safety by planting seeds outside their classroom. In this Earth Day lesson, students identify the different ways to recycle and conserve resources on Earth while facilitating recycling bins around campus....
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Are We Finished with It Yet?

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners recognize the importance of natural resources and that we need to conserve, reuse and recycle them. For this conserving natural resources lesson, students are given one object and must create something with it. Young scholars...
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Curated OER

Eco-Detectives

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore natural decomposers. In this decomposing lesson, students participate in a WebQuest to discover how nature handles decomposition. Students compare natural methods for decomposition with recycling efforts.
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Curated OER

Trash Bashing

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Young scholars define trash, garbage, or solid waste, discuss ways of disposing of trash, list examples of biodegradable materials, and have trash relay race in order to sort trash into appropriate containers labeled biodegradable,...
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Things We Can Learn From a Cow and a Worm

For Students 4th - 5th
In this conservation worksheet, learners answer 5 questions about how cows and worms recycle and conserve natural resources. Students then fill in a Venn diagram outlining ways they can recycle and conserve.
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Spanish Lessons on Waste

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners investigate waste. In this environmental lesson, students read a worksheet in both Spanish and English and share how they recycle at home. Learners are encouraged to use key vocabulary words from the worksheet such as "recycle"...
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Magazine Holder

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners investigate ways to save our environment by creating a recycled product.  For this sustainable materials lesson, students create a magazine holder by recycling a large cardboard box and gift wrap or wallpaper....
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Test Your Trash IQ Crossword Puzzle

For Students 4th - 6th
In this trash recycling crossword puzzle, students complete a word puzzle about proper trash recycling. They read 17 clues and place the answers in the proper place on the crossword puzzle.

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