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Rockmans Trading Post: Welcome to the Mineral Information Finder

For Students 9th - 10th
During your lifetime, you will use more than a million pounds of rocks, minerals, and metals. Dig through this web site and find out how.
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Read Works

Read Works: Recycling and Conservation Recycling: How It Works

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about recycling and composting. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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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.
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I Want to Be Recycled

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Understand all there is to know about recycling! Find out what materials can be recycled, the process of specific types of materials getting recycled, and how folks can help out in the community.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Waste Not Want Not

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Practice reading with Martha with this illustrated, read-along story about the environment and recycling.
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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.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Closing the Loop on Recycling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
We buy goods that can be recycled. We recycle. We buy goods made from recyables. This closes the recycling loop. This lesson investigates all of the steps in the process.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Team Up to Clean Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), ways and items to recycle will be explored. Students will also decorate a recycle team badge. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *Lesson...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Recycle to Renew

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), recycling and ways to use recycled items will be explored. Students will also recycle a bottle to create a piggy bank. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride...
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Medium: 4 Ways to Make Your Code More Reusable

For Students 9th - 10th
Reusable code saves time, energy and cost making it vital in software development. Consider four essential attributes to make code more reusable.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Litter Critters Learn to Sort and Recycle

For Students 1st - 6th
Learn the basics of recycling with the Litter Critters! Kids will sort trash into four different litter categories: recyclables, compost, electronic waste, and landfill waste. In Easy Mode, users sort trash into one category of litter at...
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Be the Change: Recycling and Beyond Story Closing the Loop

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow explaining the steps in the recycling process and how the loop is closed when you buy goods made with recycled materials.
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TESL Journal

Internet Tesl Journal: Ten Games for Recycling Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 8th
10 classroom activities that help students practice (recycle, reuse, review) vocabulary they've previously learned. Includes variations of well-known games, e.g., Pictionary, Taboo, Bingo, Outburst, and others. Instructions are provided...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Recycling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan site focuses on defining recycling, identifying recyclable materials, categorizing recyclable materials, understanding the importance of filtration and identifying the recycle symbols.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Make a Yo Yo From Recycled Stuff

For Students 3rd - 5th
This activity explains how to use materials that might otherwise be recycled in order to create a yo-yo.
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy and Recycling

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explains what recycling is and lists interesting facts about it.
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Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Ne Wspaper

For Students 3rd - 5th
See and read this demonstration of papermaking that is suitable for elementary students.
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: The Planet Protectors: Activities for Kids

For Students 3rd - 5th
Through this EPA resource, explore your environment and discover the animals, plants, air, and water around you. Learn how to protect the world we live in with fun games.
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Better Planet Productions

Earth Care: Recycling Quiz: Primary [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This recycling quiz for primary students is helpful for promoting discussion. Answers will vary depending on the recycling programs in your area.
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Other

Container Recycling Institute: A Behind the Scenes Guide to Things We Buy [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
A one-page information sheet on the costs of not recycling drink containers, actions one can take to reduce such waste, and some websites with more information. The information is from 2004 but still useful for a discussion of this topic.
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Other

Recycling Revolution: Recycling Facts

For Students 1st - 9th
Lists facts about recycling aluminum, paper, plastic, and glass, and about solid waste and landfills.
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Other

Master Composter

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about composting, and find our how it helps connect people to the Earth's natural processes.
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Better Planet Productions

Earth Care: Recycling Survey [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, students construct a survey about recycling practices in their school and community, then share the results in class and draw conclusions.
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Better Planet Productions

Earth Care: Think Green [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will explore what is involved in printer cartridge recycling, and look at its potential as a school fundraiser.

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