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Potato Ways

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners analyze the packaging process. In this consumer awareness lesson, students analyze the process of packaging a potato and identify positive and negative ways of packaging. Learners study statistics on an overhead transparency to...
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Needs and Wants

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate responsible consumer choices. In this social studies lesson, students read The Lorax and discuss wants and needs. Students discuss how to save natural resources by making informed consumer choices.
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Our Natural Resources

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate natural resources and man-made items. In this earth science lesson, students classify items from trash into man-made items or natural resources. Students construct a flow chart to investigate the life cycle of a...
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Look At A Landfill

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore how landfills function. In this landfill instructional activity, students explore the use of landfills and the decomposition process by creating a model landfill. Students discuss pros and cons to landfills and how...
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Needs and Wants

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the difference between needs and wants. In this consumption lesson, students illustrate their needs and wants and discuss their own reasons for buying things. They also discuss the connection between their choices and...
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There Is No Away

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify how trash is disposed of. In this environmental instructional activity, students read and discuss the poem "Sarah Sylvia Stout" by Shel Silverstein and discuss the ways people treated the items in the poem. Students...
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Worksheet
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Christmas Complete The Paragraph Puzzle

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Christmas complete the paragraph puzzle worksheet, students write in six missing words from the word list at the bottom of the page to complete the paragraph, with more puzzles and answers available online.
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Pollution Solution!

For Teachers K - 7th
Students listen to the story "Clean Air, Dirty Air" by Lynne Patchett and discover the main types of pollution and how these affect their bodies. In this pollution lesson, students work in small groups to create a machine to prevent...
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Trash Pizza

For Teachers K - 6th
Students work together to identify items sent to landfills. They summarize percentages of the different items found in landfills. They create a pizza pie graph of all of the components found in landfills.
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Earth Day - Bursting Beans

For Teachers K - 6th
Students fill jars with dried beans and water, cover the jars, and wait to see what happens in this excellent Science experiment ideal for Earth Day (April 22nd). Emphasis is placed on discovering the reactions of seeds to water.
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Rainforest Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore products of the rainforest. In this environmental stewardship activity, students discover the resources that the rainforest holds and examine products from the rainforest used around the world.
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Problems in Pollutia

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, in groups, pretend as if they live in the imaginary kingdom called Pollutia. They make recommendations about environmental issues and give short speechs on how each problem should be solved.
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What Can We Do About Trash in Our Community?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how to deal with the amount of trash in their community. They discover alternate ways of managing waste. They develop their own solutions to the problem.
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Introduction to Waste Management

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students research the difference between hazardous waste and municipal solid waste. Different companies in their community are researched to determine which are contributing waste in their region, what type of waste is generated, the...
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Edible Landfill

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students investigate landfills. In this edible landfill lesson, students replicate the structure sanitary landfills as they use the listed foods to build a model.
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Worksheet
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Christmas Scrambled Sentences

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this Christmas sentences learning exercise, students use words in 2 sentences to make sentences that make sense. Students complete one 13 word sentence and one 16 word sentence.
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Trash Pizza

For Teachers K - 6th
Students identify items commonly sent to landfills and summarize percentages/fractions of different items in landfills Students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components
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The Daily Waste Times

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars describe qualities of a newspaper article that make it effective. They define waste and identify local waste problems and practices, and select one component of a newspaper which communicates about the issue. issues of...
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Recycle City

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Recycle City

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Recycling

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to see why recycling is so important. Learn how to reduce and reuse products to help lower your carbon footprint.
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Community Learning Network

Cln: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Theme Page

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
"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.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers 3rd
Activity provides ideas for how to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
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Siemens Science Day: Physical Science: Recycled Again!

For Students 9th - 10th
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.

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