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MY REDUCE/REUSE STORY

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Students go through old magazines and select pictures of things which ultimately become a waste product. They paste these pictures into a small "recycling" book. They dictate a story about reuse and/or recycling of these materials.

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recycling, waste management

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recycle, waste, science
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K - 3rd
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Science
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