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Why Should We Recycle Plastics?
Students understand the value and harmful effects of plastics. In this plastics recycling lesson plan, students create a small compost bin that allows materials to return to the soil. Students explore what happens to the plastic in their...
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Is It Recyclable?
Students bring to school five items they would normally throw away and five items they would normally recycle. Expert groups are formed to present information on the recycling of glass, metal, plastic, and organics such as paper and...
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Recycling and Waste Reduction
Students investigate recycling and waste reduction and its positive impact on the environment. In this environmental science lesson, students determine how and why materials are recycled. They apply their knowledge by making their own...
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Milk Mon' Activity Sheet
In this recycling worksheet, students color pictures of recycling bins either yellow or blue. They identify 7 items that can be recycled in the blue bin, and tell 5 things that can be recycled in the yellow bin. They color a recycling...
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Recycling In Japan
Students participate in a lesson that is focused on the concept of recycling. They conduct research to find out about the history of recycling and how it is done in the present day.
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Recycling!
Students explore environmental awareness by participating in a recycling activity. In this sustainability lesson, students identify methods in which things can be reused, such as paper. Students utilize aluminum foil, a bowl, water,...
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Recycling Worksheet
In this recycling worksheet, students look at 12 pictures and circle those that they can recycle from their home. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Reduce Reuse Recycle
Learners discover methods that can save the planet by recycling. In this sustainable planet lesson plan, students read The Berenstein Bears Don't Pollute Anymore, and practice memorizing the 3 R's. Learners write commitment letters...
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Recycled Paper Making
Second graders investigate the life of a recycled newspaper by experimenting in class. In this recycling lesson, 2nd graders create their own recycled paper pulp by mixing an old newspaper into a bucket and adding water. Students...
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Magazine Holder
Students investigate ways to save our environment by creating a recycled product. In this sustainable materials lesson, students create a magazine holder by recycling a large cardboard box and gift wrap or wallpaper. Students explore...
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Recycled Products Game Show
Students identify items that may be recycled. In this recycling lesson, students play a game that challenges them to identify words of items that may be recycled.
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Recycling at home survey
Students fill out a survey that asks questions about recycling at home. In this recycling at home lesson plan, students fill in 7 different questions about recycling at home.
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Curious George Sailboat
A whole-group discussion kicks off a hands-on activity that challenges young engineers to build a sailboat using reusable materials. Participants gather recycled items to assemble their one-of-a-kind sailboat and test its ability to...
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Spelling Activity
Sometimes you can add an s to a word to form its plural. Sometimes you can't. Help your class learn how to pluralize irregular words like calf, woman, and half. After, have them study the prefixes un, de, pre, dis, and re in the colorful...
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The Recycle Games
Young scholars play a series of Recycle Games which provide great exercise while teaching about the importance of recycling. They participate in relay races and games that make use of recycled materials and other "trash."
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Recycling
Learners complete a variety of activities designed to encourage them to explore recycling. They complete a quiz and worksheet, sort recyclable items and discuss how recyclable goods are identified.
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ALUMINUM RECYCLING
Pupils describe how aluminum is recycled. They study a diagram illustrating the recycling path of an aluminum can. They answer questions regarding aluminum. They write letters to recycling firms for information on starting a recycling...
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Recycle! Recycle! Recycle!
Students investigate recycling and reusing. They view an online video, create an recycled art collage using picture files in Inspiration software, and write a choral poem about recycling.
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Activity #7 Recycling of Newsprint
Students illustrate the paper recycling process. They collect and weigh all the newspapers that come to their house in a week's time. Pupils multiply this number by all the weeks in a yeat and again by an estimate of the number of...
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Recycling Relay Race
Students identify the reasons why recycling is important. In this recycling lesson, students practice sorting plastics into categories using recycling bins and types of plastics.
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Introduction to Recycling
Students read a story about recycling, and then identify 3 different objects that can be recycled on a worksheet of numerous items. In this recycling lesson plan, students also write a sentence about recycling.
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What Should I Recycle?
First graders discuss a plan to minimize waste. In this waste management lesson plan, 1st graders read "Why Should I Recycle," by Jen Green and create a classroom recycling plan.
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Earth Day - Reduce - Reuse - Recycle
In this Earth Day activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences, match words to definitions, and make slogans for pictures about reducing, reusing, and recycling. Students complete 3 activities.
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Recycling
Fourth graders gain an awareness of recycling. In this science lesson plan, 4th graders become aware of how much garbage we can produce, identify landfills and their purposes, and explain how recycling saves energy and resources while...