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Environmental Fair

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate environmental issues. In this environmental lesson plan, students find an object that is considered trash and make something useful out of it. Students present their creative project.
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The Effects of Trash and Garbage On the Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students recognize the importance of solid waste management. In this science lesson plan, students analyze individual solid waste management habits as they enhance their knowledge of solid waste disposal and the recycling process.
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Landfill Word Search

For Students 7th - 10th
For this landfill worksheet, students find 11 words associated with modern landfills such as hazardous waste and municipal waste in this landfill word search.
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Chymist

Alum from Waste Aluminum Cans

For Students 9th - 12th
Turn aluminum cans into pickles! An engaging experiment has learners chemically change aluminum into a substance with many purposes including the manufacture of pickles. After performing the chemical conversion, the experimenters verify...
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Virginia Department of Education

Educator’s Guide to Planning a Field Day Event

For Teachers K - 5th
Plan an environmentally friendly field day for your young conservationists with this collection of activities and resources. Whether it's bowling with plastic bags full of crumpled up newspaper and empty plastic...
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California Academy of Science

Energy: A Day in My Life

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
If only we could harness the energy of fifth graders, our energy problems would be over! The class discusses where different forms of energy come from and how we use them. They complete a chart of the activities that they do daily...
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Beyond Benign

Plastic Bags

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Paper or plastic? Explore the environmental effects of using plastic bags through mathematics. Learners manipulate worldwide data on plastic bag consumption to draw conclusions.
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Environment: Waste Walk

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students assess the positive and negative affects of humans on the environment. The lesson explores ways in which individuals and societies can reduce the negative impact on the environment. By taking a "waste walk" around their campus,...
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Trash! How Cities Work: Dealing with Garbage in the US and India

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify how different cultures deal with the challenge of trash. Read an excerpt from a chapter book based on real life written from the Southern Indian perspective. Describe the life of a street child in Southern India....
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Molehill or Mountain

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of waste management. In this environmental stewardship lesson plan, students consider the trash generated by people per day and discuss what steps they can personally take to reduce waste.
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Earth Day Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners analyze Earth science by answering environmental study questions. In this Earth Day lesson, students read the book The Lorax and identify the themes within it. Learners define several recycling vocabulary terms and create an...
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Standard 4 Review-Human Impact

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this human impact on the environment worksheet, students fill in the blanks to complete sentences about how humans have negatively affected the environment. They complete sentences about the actions taken to reduce and repair the...
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Solid Waste Takes Over

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore solid waste and its effects on the environment. They explain some of the major problems caused by waste disposal and the use of landfills. They suggest ways to reduce the amount of solid waste going into a landfill.
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It's all In the Package

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the concept of reducing solid waste and how it relates to product packaging. They read about and evaluate the packaging decisions of two major U.S. corporations, develop a t-chart comparing the pros and cons of various...
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New Year's Resolution

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars brainstorm ways they can reduce their energy consumption and then create New Year's Resolutions with their families to put these conservation plans into action.
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Not In My Backyard: Siting A Resource Recovery Facility

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars role play a town meeting in which a new resource facility could be built. They have time to question each other after all sides have presented.
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Chicago Botanic Garden

Are You Bigfoot?

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Scholars independently explore several websites to calculate their ecological footprint. Using their new found knowledge, they answer six short-answer questions and take part in a grand conversation with their peers about how...
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Reuse and Respect!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners examine the concept of reusing trash to save the environment. For this environment lesson, students examine the definition of the word reuse, and apply it by finding ways to reuse trash in their school. They talk about what...
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GARBAGE 1: THE ROOTS OF TRASH

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the various natural resources used to produce common items; to explain how people use science and technology to produce those items.
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Trash Or Treasure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the concept of garbage and define how it may be useful for people. The consumption of products is estimated to predict the annual volume of garbage for a household. Then students attempt to create a treasure...
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It Won't Last Forever

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars investigate the recycling process. In this recycling lesson, students set up a classroom program for recycling and set up recycling bins in various areas of the school. Young scholars investigate other options to reduce...
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Grocery Store Bans Plastic Bags

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students participate in the paper vs. plastic bag debate, then read a news article about one grocery store that is banning plastic bags. In this current events instructional activity, the teacher introduces the news article with a debate...
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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 activity, 1st graders complete four activities to analyze the importance of our natural resources and what trash does...
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The Environment and the Community

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars observe their environment and come up with ways to protect it. In this environment lesson plan, students discuss pollution and ways to prevent it. Then they create a poster with drawings that show a goal to reduce...

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