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Scientific Inquiry

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a poster. In this recycling lesson, students discuss pollution and the ways humans negatively affect the environment. Students describe examples of litter or pollution they have experienced. Students collect litter from...
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The Case of the Broken Loop

For Students 4th - 5th
In this environmental awareness learning exercise, students complete 8 pages pertaining to waste, landfills, recycling and composting. Included are: matching words and definitions, crossword puzzle, scrambled letters, a code, word search...
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Scientific Inquiry, Episode 1

For Teachers K - 5th
Students look at ways to help the environment. In 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 recycling. 
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Roll Away Trees

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in a simulation involving newspaper, food coloring, water, and more to observe the debarking process of producing wood. In this wood lesson plan, 1st graders also measure, and learn about reducing, reusing, and...
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Being Resource-ful

For Teachers K - 4th
Students compare the amount of waste that comes from different bags of equivalent amounts of potato chips and decide which would produce the least amount of waste. They discuss recycling and other ways they can reduce waste.
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The Environment and You

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the human environmental impact and discover ways to lessen effects. They create a pollution damage flow chart and write down what they think Mother Earth might say. They create inventions from recyclable materials.
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Celebrating Earth Day

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore environmental safety by planting seeds outside their classroom. In this Earth Day lesson plan, students identify the different ways to recycle and conserve resources on Earth while facilitating recycling bins around...
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Classic Trash

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate how trash is classified and the options to deal with it. In this trash and recycling lesson, students perform an activity to classify trash into organic, renewable/ recyclable, now renewable/recyclable and...
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Trash Bashing

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students define trash, garbage, or solid waste, discuss ways of disposing of trash, list examples of biodegradable materials, and have trash relay race in order to sort trash into appropriate containers labeled biodegradable, reusable,...
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Things We Can Learn From a Cow and a Worm

For Students 4th - 5th
In this conservation worksheet, students answer 5 questions about how cows and worms recycle and conserve natural resources. Students then fill in a Venn diagram outlining ways they can recycle and conserve.
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Spanish Lessons on Waste

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate waste. In this environmental instructional activity, students read a worksheet in both Spanish and English and share how they recycle at home. Students are encouraged to use key vocabulary words from the worksheet...
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Magazine Holder

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate ways to save our environment by creating a recycled product.  In this sustainable materials lesson, students create a magazine holder by recycling a large cardboard box and gift wrap or wallpaper.  Students explore...
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Test Your Trash IQ Crossword Puzzle

For Students 4th - 6th
In this trash recycling crossword puzzle, students complete a word puzzle about proper trash recycling. They read 17 clues and place the answers in the proper place on the crossword puzzle.
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Recycle/ Reuse Word Search

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word search activity, students locate 18 words that are associated with recycling and reusing products. They locate words such as books, bottles, and aluminum that are found in a word bank at the bottom of the page.
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Trash to Treasure!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
One person's trash is another man's treasure. Challenge your class to build something useful out of the trash they throw away on a regular basis. Groups design and build a practical item from trash they collect, allowing the class to...
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Reduce, Re-use, Recycle

For Teachers 6th - 12th
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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Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars determine the differences between the terms reduce, reuse and recycle. Students complete a worksheet after a book is read, or information from a website is shared. Young scholars brainstorm ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.
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Ready, Set, Go Recycling!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice separating trash into the correct recycling container. They discover the concept of recycle, reuse or reduce. They work together as a class to change their recycling habits.
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Recycling

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine different "cycles" that are found in nature, such as the water cycle and recycling. They create their own artwork about cycles to be displayed on a bulletin board
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Recycling Copy Paper Scraps

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discover why recycling is important to Earth. They consider the multiple ways to recycle copy paper. Students transform scrap copy paper with printing on one side into practical classroom tools; an envelope and a drinking cup.
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In Search of Reused and Recycled

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars identify recycled and recyclable products by reading labels. They discuss what happens to solid waste in landfills and its impact on the environment. They discuss ways in which they can conserve natural resources.
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MY REDUCE/REUSE STORY

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils go through old magazines and select pictures of things which ultimately become a waste product. They paste these pictures into a small "recycling" book. They dictate a story about reuse and/or recycling of these materials.
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Recycling and Reusing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete the associated worksheets as they investigate ways to recycle and reuse common objects. They share ideas on reusing objects while practicing listening, speaking and note-taking skills.
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How Can We Reuse It?

For Students 4th - 8th
In this recycling worksheet, students view a picture of a structure on a piece of land and brainstorm about whether it is best to knock down the structure and reuse the land or leave it standing and reuse the structure. The picture of...

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