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Students explore environmental care by participating in a litter identification activity. In this food trash lesson, students discuss the destruction litter causes in our environment and ways we can avoid littering ourselves. Students utilize different trash items and a portable fan to simulate how litter spreads on Earth.

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environmental stewardship, the environment, litter

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earth clean up, environmental care, littering, lunchtime litter, science
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Grade
Pre-K - 2nd
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Inquiry-Based Learning
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