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Trash Pizza

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Pupils identify items commonly sent to landfills and summarize percentages/fractions of different items in landfills Students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components

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landfills

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landfill, pizza pie graph, math
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Grade
K - 6th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
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Project-Based Learning

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