Trash Pizza

Students create a pizza pie graph of materials commonly found in landfills. Working in groups, they create a pizza crust and use commonly found trash items as the toping so represent the distribution of materials found in a landfill.

Students work together to identify items sent to landfills. They summarize percentages of the different items found in landfills. They create a pizza pie graph of all of the components found in landfills.

Students investigate how to reduce, recycle, and reuse items in order to conserve natural resources. They complete a trash graphing activity after discussing different types of trash. Finally, the examine ways to buy recycled products to...