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Curated OER

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Respect

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the vocabulary that is associated with recycling and tell what recycling is. In this recycling lesson plan, 2nd graders use flash cards and Concentration type games to learn the vocabulary associated with recycling....
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Happy Earth Day Coloring Book

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
From turning off lights when leaving a room, to biking or walking to school, there are many simple habits children can develop to help preserve the earth. Help raise environmental awareness in your class with this activity packet that...
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Rustle Leaf

Tell Someone About Earth Day

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Celebrate Earth Day by spreading the word of conservation. Teach children ten easy ways to help preserve the Earth and share this knowledge with others by sending e-cards and printable cards to loved ones. Extend learning about the...
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Live Oak Media

Activity Guide: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Enhance a reading of the Caldecott Medal-winning children's book Joseph had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback with this collection of learning activities. Starting with general background information about the book and author, this...
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Curated OER

How to Clean Up an Oil Slick

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore how an oil spill is contained and cleaned up. They investigate an oil absorbing polymer that is hydrophobic, absorbs up to 19 times its own weight in nonpolar liquids, floats on water, and can be reused or disposed of by...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Are We Finished with It Yet?

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners recognize the importance of natural resources and that we need to conserve, reuse and recycle them. In this conserving natural resources lesson, students are given one object and must create something with it. Young scholars...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Recycling Activity Book

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this recycling worksheet, students complete the activities in a 19 page activity book pertaining to reducing, reusing and recycling. Included are: coloring, crafts, fill in the blanks, dot to dot, mazes, word search and crossword...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cookie Packaging Chart

For Students 4th - 6th
In this environmental issue worksheet, students fill out a chart to compare the packaging used in their choice of 5 brands of cookies. Kids record the brand of cookie, pieces of packaging, number of cookies in the package, and type of...
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Curated OER

Fancy Packaging

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Youngsters consider the amount of packaging used in manufacturing food and follow its travels through to the landfill. They brainstorm ways in which to reduce packaging and take a survey at home to evaluate ways they could reduce trash.
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Teach Engineering

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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PPT
Curated OER

Jeopardy! The Eight Parts of Speech

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Thrill your class with the daily doubles and increasing points of Jeopardy! Complete with sound effects and visual cues, the game focuses on parts of speech, including nouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. Each point square links to a...
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Baylor College

What Is the Water Cycle?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Small groups place sand and ice in a covered box, place the box in the sunlight, then observe as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation occur. These models serve as miniature water cycles and demonstrations of the three phases of...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers

Waste and Recycling: Recycling and Energy Recovery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover. Young environmentalists learn about the overwhelming amount of garbage produced and discover better ways to minimize their impact on Earth by learning the difference between garbage and recyclables. 
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Curated OER

Save the Earth Day

For Teachers 1st
First graders tellacollaborate with other students around the world sharing their ideas about what earth day means to them. They share ways in which they recycle, reduce and reuse.
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Curated OER

Garbage or Art?

For Teachers 3rd
The three R's are, reduce, reuse, and recycle. Third graders use recycled materials to design and create an environmentally themed piece of art. They discuss and examine major art works that were created using recycled materials, then...
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SF Environment

Waste-Less Lunch

For Teachers K - 5th
Is it possible to have a waste-less lunch? Can your class become leaders in conservation? Discuss the importance of reducing waste during lunch time with a fun instructional activity that can be extended to everyday practices. First the...
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Zippy Brain

Earth Day Carol

For Students Pre-K - 6th
Learn about the environmental three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) in a modern day version of Dickens' Christmas Carol with an ecological twist. Discover where plastic comes from, where it collects, and one potential fate as Plastic Bottle...
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Writing
Have Fun Teaching

Story Starters

For Students K - 5th
Starting at the very beginning may be a very good place to start, but it can also be very difficult for emergent writers. Help them get started by providing them with a setting, a main character, and a basic plot.
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Curated OER

Household Hazardous Waste Identification

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn about reduce, reuse, and recycle and identify household hazardous products. Students learn about less hazardous alternatives and complete an inventory of hazardous materials in a typical household.
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Curated OER

1-Use, 2-Use, Re-Use, New Use

For Teachers K - 4th
Students list the possible uses of grocery bags. They trace the steps of a grocery bag either to recycle or trash. In groups, students use the grocery bags to create posters promoting reuse.
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Curated OER

Trash or Treasure?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover why, how, and where they should recycle or reuse what they throw away.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Junk Mail

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this junk mail worksheet, students count the junk mail they get sent to their house and write how they can reduce, reuse, or recycle it. Students come up with 1 way for each.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Boxes, Bags, and Bottles

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this boxes, bags, and bottles worksheet, students count how many of each are in their lunch and discuss how they could reuse them. Students pick one item and reflect on how they could avoid throwing it away.
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Curated OER

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners read the story Joseph Had a Little Overcoat about using a coat and making it into many things. In this reading lesson plan, students make a picture out of scraps and discuss how to reuse items to make new items.

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