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Junk Mail

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Third graders consider the impact of junk mail on our natural resources and landfills. They collect their families' junk mail for a week and explore ways to reduce junk mail, and write a book that explains the importance of trees in our daily lives.

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junk mail, conservation, trees

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3rd
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Science
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