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Recycling
Middle schoolers examine biodegradable materials. In this recycling lesson, students research biodegradable materials. Middle schoolers break into groups and design a product that is completely made of biodegradable materials. Students...
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My Mess-Free Desk
Students, utilizing recycled plastic containers, construct a desk organizer in a unifying manner and mold a base for their unit. They organize their study area with a cool theme or color scheme and help the environment at the same time.
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Scientific Inquiry, Episode 1
Young scholars look at ways to help the environment. For this recycling lesson, students watch a video on pollution and then collect trash at their school. They create posters to share with the school about the importance of...
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Paper Makers
Students make recycled paper out of scrap paper, water, and leaves. In this natural resources lesson plan, students learn about conservation of the forest and how we can use recycled paper to fuel our paper supply.
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Earth Day Lesson
Learners analyze Earth science by answering environmental study questions. In this Earth Day instructional activity, students read the book The Lorax and identify the themes within it. Learners define several recycling vocabulary terms...
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Earth Day
Students complete a variety of Earth Day activities. In this recycling and the environment lesson plan, students listen to Earth friendly music, create a car out of juice boxes, use soda cans and bottle caps to create a Halloween...
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Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
Students determine the importance of recycling to reduce waste, to employ trash in useful ways, and to save the environment. They estimate the percentages of landfill waste that items constitute, based on what they found in their own...
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Recycling Quest
Young scholars integrate the concept of recycling into an aerobic activity. They incorporate the use of baskets, crates, wrist bands, vests, and bean bags, They play a remote game until all the "trash" is retrieved.
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Litter
Students discuss the concept of littering and what they do personally to contribute or prevent littering. In this environmental awareness lesson, students create a jingle, or a commercial to promote recycling. Links to some excellent...
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Pop Bottle Terrarium
Students make terrariums out of bottles, pebbles, cuttings from other plants, and water. In this terrarium lesson plan, students learn about recycling by using household items to make terrariums.
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SCIENTIFIC ART
Students cut out pictures from magazines and create collages that demonstrate the five senses.
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Science-Related Field Trips That Won’t Break the Bank
Try some of these tips to put a new spin on the old field trip favorites.
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November Science
Students review that all people, plants, and animals live on Earth. They classify objects found in the environment as living or nonliving.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Scientific Inquiry, Episode 1
In this classroom activity, learners discuss how people and pollution affect the environment. Then they demonstrate ways to recycle, reduce, and reuse.