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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Turn over this interactive OLogy card and start learning bite-size pieces of useful information about reducing, reusing, and recycling.
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Website
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What is the point to recycling? Why should we do it? What is the best way to do it? Check out this eco-friendly reminder.
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Interactive
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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Activity
Other

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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Handout
Other

42 E Xplore: The Topic: Recycle Reduce Reuse

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find an abundance of information, definitions, links, and other resources pertaining to recycling, reducing, and reusing.
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Website
Other

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection: Just for Kids: Recycling

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Handout
Geography 4 kids

Geography4 Kids: Biosphere: Recycling

For Students 3rd - 8th
One important biosphere basic is Recycling. Here's a quick look at this topic as well as the Reduce-Reuse-Recycle concept.
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Unit Plan
Next.cc

Next: Recycling

For Students 3rd - 8th
Multiple activities explore and explain the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Click on one of the links provided for further information.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Science Rockers: Recycling Paper

For Students 3rd - 8th
Easy recycling experiment through which recycle newspaper, by turning the used paper into pulp and then back to paper.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Recycled Towers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Handout
Government of Alberta

Alberta Environment: Focus on Waste Reduction [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains how waste is managed in Alberta and the systems in place to practise the four R's (reduce, reuse, recycle, recover) of waste management.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Recycle Reduce Reuse

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a lesson on the 3 R's-recycle, reduce, and reuse.
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Handout
Other

City of Phoenix: Recyclesaurus Activity Book [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
This activity book teaches about reducing, reusing, and recycling materials. Students can decode words, color, do a word scramble, and learn how to compost. Written in both English and Spanish.
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Website
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Land, Waste, and Cleanup Topics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is loaded with information on solid waste and hazardous waste. It includes industries' effects on the environment, waste programs, treatment, control, pollution prevention, recycling, and cleanup programs.
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Website
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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Interactive
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Dumptown Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Website
Other

Think Green: Think Waste Management

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how waste can be recycled and what you can do to aid recycling efforts in your community. With complete overviews of the types of materials that can be recycled: e-waste, paper and cardboard, metals, glass, plastics,...
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Website
Other

Commercial Paving and Recycling

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: What Young People Can Do to Help With Waste Management

For Students 3rd - 8th
A quick guide for students for helping with waste management through reducing, reusing, and recycling.
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Interactive
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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Unit Plan
Geographypods

Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Patterns in Resource Consumption

For Students 11th - 12th
This collection of three learning modules looks at issues related to resource consumption. It examines theories about how population size affects consumption, the changing patterns of energy consumption, and ways to minimize consumption....
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Environment for Kids: Recycling

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about recycling and how it helps the environment. What can be recycled and how recycling works for teachers and students.
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Website
Other

Container Recycling Institute: A Behind the Scenes Guide to Things We Buy [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.

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