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Christmas Potpourri Hangers

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students create a potpourri hanger.  In this Christmas craft lesson, students reuse materials to make a Christmas potpourri hangar for the tree or for a gift. 
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Engineering Solutions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use internet resources to explore the side effects of technology; to design, implement and evaluate solutions related to the problem of waste disposal.
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How to Recycle a Rock

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the rock cycle and explore how rocks are made, changed, destroyed and recreated. They create representations of these processes with hands-on activities.
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Snowy Night Snaps

For Teachers K
Students use misprinted photographs donated from a photo processing company to create paintings of a snowy landscape at night.
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Conservation Collage

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars identify many different ways the environment is polluted, and determine ways to prevent pollution. They create a collage of pictures describing how the earth becomes polluted.
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Earth's Recyclers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together in groups to report on different topics related to decomposition. They answer questions and share their answers with the class. They discuss any topic that is unclear.
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Growing With Compost

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss the positives and negatives of composting. They plant their own plant using composting material and record results. They create a poster for the classroom.
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Holiday Hints

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this holiday hint worksheet, students learn how to have a pet safe environmentally "green" Christmas by reading 6 tips. The underlined words in the tips are found in a word search puzzle and there is also a coded message.
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Trash To Treasure

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this environmental worksheet, students learn about reusing trash and making crafts and useful items instead of throwing it into a landfill. Students study 15 pictures of crafts and list as many trash items as they can find.
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Plate Tectonics: Recycling the Seafloor

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils classify earth's layers and plates using Ocean Seismicity data. In this plate tectonics lesson, students outline where the plate boundaries are on the world map. They then compare these predicted boundaries with USGS map of the...
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Junk-In-The-Box

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover the impact of man-made litter. In this man-made litter activity, students examine man-made litter and describe its impact on animals in the environment.
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Aluminum Can Challenge

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math challenge worksheet, students are given a set of proportions needed to answer a set of 10 related questions. Additional information about recycling aluminum cans is given.
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Help! Help! Save the Earth!

For Teachers 1st
First graders analyze ways to save our natural resources and preserve the environment. In this environmental protection lesson plan, 1st graders complete four activities to analyze the importance of our natural resources and what trash...
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Map Your Area

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students map the geographic boundaries of a recycling program's service areas and include the location of buyers important to the program. They use this map as an aid in managing a school recycling program or project.
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November 15th Writing Prompt

For Students 5th - 8th
In this daily writing prompt worksheet, learners learn that November 15th is America Recycles Day. Students respond to questions pertaining to recycling.
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Excavating the Trash

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars look at a day's accumulation of recyclable trash from first through fifth grade classrooms, not knowing which classes it came from. After setting up a collection sheet for data, students remove items from the receptacle...
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"Eggs-hibit" Students' Egg-Carton Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students follow instructions and exercise creativity as they take an old egg carton and a few other easy-to-find art supplies and create "eggs-quisite" art! In addition, they recycle an every day egg carton into art.
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The Environment: Materials

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this ESL activity worksheet, students answer the question "What should we recycle?" using the 9 pictures as clues. A word bank is provided.
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Cast A Paper Valentine

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create and learn about the history of Valentine's Day cards, as well as use recyclable materials to design their own cards.
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Biodome

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students make a biodome out of a recycled soda bottle. In this biodome lesson plan, students make a self contained environment for a plant to grow and watch the plants growth.
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MOBILITY, Bike Rack Remix

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine how riding a bike can impact the environment and cut down on carbon emissions.  In this environmental lesson students design a bike rack that is made from recycled material.
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Carbon Cycle Lesson

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders learn how trees help nature recycle.  In this carbon cycle lesson plan, 7th graders view a picture of a giant redwood tree, complete a Think, Pair, Share activity, view and discuss a poster about how nature recycles,...
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Soaring Towers

For Teachers K - 6th
Students build towers from recycled materials. in this building activity, students build the highest tower they can from varied materials. They focus on shapes and which items should go on the bottom to make a strong base. 
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U.S. Geography: The Northeast

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars investigate U.S. Geography by creating a map in class. In this natural resource lesson, students create a map of the United States and research the Northeast based on their resources and recyclable materials.  Young...

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