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Think Green: Earth Day Project Ideas: Grades 6 8 [Pdf]
Give your learners the tools to live and think green with these fun educational projects and art activities. Projects are useful for helping students learn to make good environmental decisions. [PDF]
US Energy Information Administration
U.s. Eia Energy Kids: Saving Energy
A look at what you can do to save energy that answers "What can I do to save energy?" and "How can recycling save energy?" Also provides a collection of useful links to more information on energy efficiency, waste, and recycling.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Trees Are Terrific
What is a tree? Site asks users to travel along with Pierre to find out.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Waste Not Want Not
Practice reading with Martha with this illustrated, read-along story about the environment and recycling.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Natural Resource Conservation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Ways that natural resources can be conserved.
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State of Michigan: Mi Kids
Kids don't have to be residents of Michigan to enjoy this site! There is lots of information as well as fun activities contained in six sub-categories: Yikes! Central (safety), sightseeing, way back when, you.gov, our backyard, and map it.
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Mi Kids
Kids don't have to be residents of Michigan to enjoy this site! There is lots of information as well as fun activities contained in six sub-categories: Yikes! Central (safety), sightseeing, way back when, you.gov, our backyard, and map it.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Recycling
Students will review the legislation in Japan that requires all consumers to pay a fee for recycling large appliances.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Closing the Loop on Recycling
We buy goods that can be recycled. We recycle. We buy goods made from recyables. This closes the recycling loop. This lesson investigates all of the steps in the process.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Recycle to Renew
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), recycling and uses of recycled materials will be explored. Students will also create a recycling collage. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide"...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Team Up to Clean Up
For this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), ways and items to recycle will be explored. Students will also decorate a recycle team badge. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *Lesson...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Recycle to Renew
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), recycling and ways to use recycled items will be explored. Young scholars will also recycle a bottle to create a piggy bank. This lesson is one from the "Take...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "The Lorax" an Environmental Issue
Students watch "The Lorax" as an introduction to environmental issues. Students need not have prior knowledge of terms. This lesson follows the learning cycle. Students design a plan to make the Truffula trees sustainable and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Claim Testers: Episode 4 Fueling the Future
The claim tester gang comes face-to-face with Orx-30. This comic focuses around the topic of sustainable forms of energy.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Math Trash
A lesson where students collect trash, sort, and record the mass in grams. They will use their knowledge of numbers to figure out what category of trash had the most. The biggest idea of the lesson is that students will be more likely to...
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Vibrant Recycling
n Vibrant Recycling you must collect and recycle the wastes thrown correctly, through the help of fun bins at various levels throughout the game.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Litter Critters Learn to Sort and Recycle
Learn the basics of recycling with the Litter Critters! Kids will sort trash into four different litter categories: recyclables, compost, electronic waste, and landfill waste. In Easy Mode, users sort trash into one category of litter at...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Our Earth What a Waste?
Read about how the people of Wisconsin are recycling much of their waste and how this is helping the environment.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Be the Change: Waste Minimization
Where does trash go when you throw it away? Is there really an 'away?' Watch a video about trash and conduct a waste audit at your school to see how much waste is produced, what types, and what goes into producing it. Then see what waste...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: Brief History of the First Earth Day and What We Can Learn From Its Success Lesson Plan
Earth Day grew out of the environmental movement in the late 1960s in response to a series of environmental disasters that took lives, marred natural beauty and threatened animal species. An estimated 20 million Americans participated in...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Science Explorations: Kids' Environment Report Card
Cast your vote on the important environmental issues. Associated with each issue, there are at least three links to sites which can further your understanding of the issue. To encourage others to respect the environment, you can also...
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Planet Ark: World Environmental News
Welcome to Planet Ark's daily Reuters World Environment News - the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net. To read previous news stories, please use the search engine below to find stories relating to any...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Trash Matcher
Got Trash? Who doesn't? You can turn it to treasure by using the Trash Matcher. Click on the type of trash you have to find directions for fun projects that will use up your recyclables.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy and Recycling
Explains what recycling is and lists interesting facts about it.