Curated OER
Powering a Green Earth
Students compare and contrast renewable and nonrenewable energy. For this environmental science lesson, students discuss the importance of going green. They identify the different components in a power grid system.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Recycle City
This interactive site allows students to implement recycling programs to transform "Dumptown" into "Recycle City". To make this simulation realistic, students must implement the programs within a budget.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Activity provides ideas for how to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Other
Siemens Science Day: Physical Science: Recycled Again!
Students will discover how to separate recycled goods by completing this hands-on science activity. Learn how physical properties are used to sort recyclable materials.
National Institutes of Health
Nih: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Three great ways YOU can eliminate waste and protect your environment!Waste, and how we choose to handle it, affects our world's environment-that's YOUR environment. The environment is everything around you...
Other
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection: Just for Kids: Recycling
Why should I recycle? What are recyclable materials? How does recycling work? Learn the answer to these questions and much more on this site about recycling.
Community Learning Network
Cln: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Theme Page
"A number of links to Internet sites which contain information and/or other links related to the specific theme of Recycling." Site by Community Learning Network.
Other
Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Recycling
Use this site to see why recycling is so important. Learn how to reduce and reuse products to help lower your carbon footprint.
Other
Commercial Paving and Recycling
This site describes products, services, and technology incorporated to recycle construction and demolition wastes in order to reduce the amount of waste destined for the landfill.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Waste?
A website devoted to the challenge of reducing solid waste for the good of our environment.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Recycle City
Explore the four neighborhoods of Recycle City to learn all the ways people there are recycling, reducing, and reusing materials. Take a look also at Dumptown, which is how Recycle City used to look, and see all the waste reduction...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Vermicomposting: How Worms Can Reduce Our Waste
Nearly one third of our food ends up in the trash can. Matthew Ross details the steps we can all take to vermicompost at home, and why it makes good business sense to do so. [4:29]
PBS
Pbs Kids: Science Rockers: Recycling Paper
Easy recycling experiment through which recycle newspaper, by turning the used paper into pulp and then back to paper.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Recycled Towers
Students learn about material reuse by designing and building the strongest and tallest towers they can, using only recycled materials. They follow design constraints and build their towers to withstand earthquake and high wind simulations.
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.
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.
Next.cc
Next: Recycling
Multiple activities explore and explain the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Click on one of the links provided for further information.
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.
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
In this lesson, students will use the song "The 3 R's" by Jack Johnson to develop ideas about how to "green" up their own classrooms; they will learn two songs (written to the tune of old classics) that will inspire them to brainstorm...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: 3 Rc (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost)
For this lesson, students expand their understanding of solid waste management to include the idea of 3RC (reduce, reuse, recycle and compost). They will look at the effects of packaging decisions (reducing) and learn about engineering...
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 Kids: Biosphere: Recycling
One important biosphere basic is Recycling. Here's a quick look at this topic as well as the Reduce-Reuse-Recycle concept.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Environment for Kids: Recycling
Kids learn about recycling and how it helps the environment. What can be recycled and how recycling works for teachers and students.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Dumptown Game
This fun game helps students learn ways to recycle, reduce waste, and compost. You can also create your own Recycle City Scavenger Hunt.
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