What Goes in the Trash Can - and Should it be Trash?

Challenging worksheets to drill your mathematicians as they crunch numbers to find the proportional relationship using fractions.

Youngsters learn how "hand-me-downs" can help save money while practicing math word problems with this fun learning center activity.

Learners explore the amount of waste produced by humans. In this ecology instructional activity, students predict which lunch bag and its contents will produce the most waste. Leftover material is examined, amounts are recorded, and a...

Discover the joy and excitement of improving your math fluency through four different puzzles. Combine those with 25 different ways to represent numbers and you have hours of enjoyment that can be fun outside of the classroom as well.

Students discover that recycling is using a product more than once so that natural resources can be saved and so that we won't need so many garbage dumps and landfills. They see that there are different ways to recycle. Students design a...

Students investigate recycling. For this reuse and recycle lesson, students examine the number and kinds of materials they discard.  It also encourages them to think about taking action by reusing and recycling some of these items....

Young scholars evaluate trash. In this Science activity, students collect and weigh trash from their classrooms. Young scholars categorize the trash and the corresponding weights, recording the information on a data sheet.

Give children credit where credit is due with this classroom management system. Providing each student with their very own charge card, they are able to gain credit for being respectful and responsible and can spend their earnings on...

Students investigate data and recyclable materials. In this math activity, students save recyclable materials and create a graph of the materials. Students discuss how they could help the environment by recycling.