NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Bag and Old T Shirt
Turn an old t-shirt into a reusable shopping bag for a trip the market, or even to the pool. Then, print the Climate Kids banner on the front and the Leaps and Flutters game on the back. Bring along a die, and find a couple of rocks or...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle O Logy Card
Turn over this interactive OLogy card and start learning bite-size pieces of useful information about reducing, reusing, and recycling.
Read Works
Read Works: Take Care of Our Planet
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about solving the problem of landfills. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Recycling and Conservation Recycling: How It Works
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about recycling and composting. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Too Much Trash
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about recycling to reduce trash in landfills. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Lin and Don Donn
Lin and Don Donn: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Lesson Plans
This personal site provides lesson and unit ideas for teaching students about recycling. There are links to other pages as well as great ways to integrate this earth conscious model into the classroom.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Earth Science: Use and Conservation of Resources
Looks at how people use natural resources and ways to conserve natural resources in this module. Module reviews over conservation, natural resources, and precycling with explanations, graphs, and pictures.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Waste Not Want Not
Practice reading with Martha with this illustrated, read-along story about the environment and recycling.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Natural Resource Conservation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Ways that natural resources can be conserved.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Closing the Loop on Recycling
We buy goods that can be recycled. We recycle. We buy goods made from recyables. This closes the recycling loop. This instructional activity investigates all of the steps in the process.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Recycle to Renew
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), recycling and uses of recycled materials will be explored. Students will also create a recycling collage. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide"...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Team Up to Clean Up
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), ways and items to recycle will be explored. Students will also decorate a recycle team badge. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *Lesson...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Recycle to Renew
In this activity from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), recycling and ways to use recycled items will be explored. Students will also recycle a bottle to create a piggy bank. This activity is one from the "Take...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Hero Elementary: Aj's Recycle Rescue
Children assist in a virtual park cleanup then use the items they find to create various objects that improve the park.
Other
42 E Xplore: The Topic: Recycle Reduce Reuse
Here you can find an abundance of information, definitions, links, and other resources pertaining to recycling, reducing, and reusing.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Litter Critters Learn to Sort and Recycle
Learn the basics of recycling with the Litter Critters! Kids will sort trash into four different litter categories: recyclables, compost, electronic waste, and landfill waste. In Easy Mode, users sort trash into one category of litter at...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Waste Minimization
Where does trash go when you throw it away? Is there really an 'away?' Watch a video about trash and conduct a waste audit at your school to see how much waste is produced, what types, and what goes into producing it. Then see what waste...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Recycling and Beyond Story Closing the Loop
A slideshow explaining the steps in the recycling process and how the loop is closed when you buy goods made with recycled materials.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy and Recycling
Explains what recycling is and lists interesting facts about it.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Recycling
This lesson plan site focuses on defining recycling, identifying recyclable materials, categorizing recyclable materials, understanding the importance of filtration and identifying the recycle symbols.
Better Planet Productions
Earth Care: Recycling Quiz: Primary [Pdf]
This recycling quiz for primary students is helpful for promoting discussion. Answers will vary depending on the recycling programs in your area.
Other
Container Recycling Institute: A Behind the Scenes Guide to Things We Buy [Pdf]
A one-page information sheet on the costs of not recycling drink containers, actions one can take to reduce such waste, and some websites with more information. The information is from 2004 but still useful for a discussion of this topic.
Other
Recycling Revolution: Recycling Facts
Lists facts about recycling aluminum, paper, plastic, and glass, and about solid waste and landfills.
Channel 4 Learning
4 Learning: Geography Essentials: Improving the Environment
An introduction to how we can help improve the environment. Focuses on reusing and recycling.