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Observe Earth Day with Art Projects Made from Recycled Materials

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Creative hands-on art project ideas that are easy on the earth and easy on a teacher’s budget.
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Garbage Pizza

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of waste management. In this recycling lesson, 4th graders identify materials that must be landfilled as well as items that may be recycled or reused.
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Trash or Treat

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this recycling worksheet, students determine how they can reuse items that were considered to be trash to make a Halloween mask. They determine the cost of the handmade mask as compared to a store bought one.
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One Person's Trash: Breaking it down

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research how trash is disposed of and make an edible landfill. In this trash lesson plan, students research proper trash disposal, and discuss how trash affects the community. Then they make an edible landfill.
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The Trash We Pass

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a study of trash and how it is disposed of in the environment. They also research the impact of recycling and its effects upon the disposal amounts. Students calculate the advantages of recycling using real world...
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students understand the process of recycling. They investigate how it improves the environment. They read the story "Don't Pollute" by Stan and Jan Berenstein. They analyze trash and sort it into bins.
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Talkin' Trash

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Use these lesson plans to illustrate the effects of trash on our environment and the ways in which we dispose of it.
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Repair, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read "Joseph had a Little Overcoat" and explain why his clothing didn't go to waste. In this repairing, reusing, recycling lesson, students recognize by reusing objects they help the environment. Students write their ideas for...
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Where Does Our Rubbish Go?

For Students 5th
In this environmental issues learning exercise, 5th graders read a two page text with photographs and statistics about the 3 methods of getting rid of trash: recycling, burning, burying. There are no questions to answer but there are...
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Recycling at Home Survey

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this recycling worksheet, students determine their solid waste output at home and think about how they might reduce the amount of trash thrown away. Students complete a 7 question survey and compare it to classmates.
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Taking Care of the Earth Tell It Again!™ Read-Aloud Anthology

For Teachers K Standards
A read-aloud anthology closely examines human impact on the Earth while boosting reading comprehension skills. Through stories, scholars examine the concepts of natural resources, pollution, garbage, and recycling and brainstorm ways to...
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The Ugly Duckling's Journey to Away - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this recycling worksheet set, students read about where trash goes in Pinellas county. They fill in blanks in the words reduce, recycle, and reuse. They identify items that can be recycled, make words from the letters in the word...
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Excavating the Trash

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars look at a day's accumulation of recyclable trash from first through fifth grade classrooms, not knowing which classes it came from. After setting up a collection sheet for data, students remove items from the receptacle...
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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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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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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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Our Class, Our Earth day

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars understand the importance of participating in recycling and clean-up efforts in the community. For this recycling lesson, students respond to questions after reading "The Wartville Wizard" by Don Madden. Young scholars...
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Applied Science - Built Environment Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars evaluate trash. In this Science instructional activity, students collect and weigh trash from their classrooms. Young scholars categorize the trash and the corresponding weights, recording the information on a data sheet.
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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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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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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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Eco-Detectives

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore natural decomposers. In this decomposing lesson, students participate in a WebQuest to discover how nature handles decomposition. Students compare natural methods for decomposition with recycling efforts.
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Waste Not Want Not

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to the need to save natural resources. Through inquiry, hands-on activities, and problem solving, students increase their understanding of solid waste materials and the need to reduce, recycle, and reuse.
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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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