Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Too Much Trash

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about recycling to reduce trash in landfills. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
SRI International

Performance Assessment Links in Science: Discovering the Problem of Solid Waste

For Students 3rd - 5th
This activity has students sort garbage, graph their results and propose ways of reducing waste.
Handout
Other

Recyclezone: Info Zone: Fight Waste at School

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how you can cut waste at school by following the 3R's: reduce, reuse, recycle. Before throwing it in the trash, see if you can use some of these ideas to help solve the problem of waste.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Scientific Inquiry, Episode 1

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this classroom activity, pupils discuss how people and pollution affect the environment. Then they demonstrate ways to recycle, reduce, and reuse.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Earth Day

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart for kindergarteners to explain Earth Day by integrating tools on each page that prompt student participation and enhance learning.
Website
abcteach

Abcteach: Earth Day Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Natural Resource Conservation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Ways that natural resources can be conserved.
Article
Other

Earth Day Canada: Eco Kids: Organize a Yard Sale

For Students 2nd - 6th
Learn your part in keeping unused items out of landfills by organizing a yard sale. By exchanging or donating your old stuff you can save money and reduce the amount of waste that goes into landfills!

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