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PBS

Pbs Kids: Daniel Stories: "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: "Neighborhood Clean Up"

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read along with Daniel and he and his friends clean up the playground and learn about recycling.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Cleaning Up Groundwater

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How polluted groundwater is cleaned up.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Cleaning Up Groundwater

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How polluted groundwater is cleaned up.
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National Institutes of Health

Niehs: Kids' Pages: Sharon Cleans Up!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this online children's story, Sharon, with the help of her animal friends, cleans up the pollution in our environment to make it a happier and healthier place to live. Site includes other fun activities and games as well as parent and...
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Oil Spill Clean Up [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan students experiment with cleaning up an oil spill. This lesson begins with students learning about the effects of oil spills on the natural environment. Then students will explore the most effective way to clean up an...
eBook
Just Books Read Aloud

Just Books Read Aloud: Rosemary Wells: Max Cleans Up

For Students Pre-K - K
A video of the book "Max Cleans Up", written by Rosemary Wells. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Printable Lesson: Litterbug Clean Up!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this printable lesson, children will learn about the environment by going outdoors and picking up litter. Use this printable lesson, video clips, science notebook pages, and support materials from the PBS KIDS show Elinor Wonders Why...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Oil on the Ocean

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about oil spills and their environmental and economic effects. They experience the steps of the engineering design process as they brainstorm potential methods for oil spill clean-up, and then design, build, and re-design...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A Clean Park

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Tyler who realized that he needed to pitch-in and help keep the park clean. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Clean It Up!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn about a special branch of engineering called bioremediation, which is the use of living organisms to aid in the clean-up of pollutant spills. Students learn all about bioremediation and see examples of its importance. In...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Clean Up This Mess

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are challenged to design a method for separating steel from aluminum based on magnetic properties as is frequently done in recycling operations. To complicate the challenge, the magnet used to separate the steel must be able to...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Global Patterns in Green Up and Green Down

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze and explore visualizations and graphs that show the annual cycle of plant growth and decline. They investigate several regions in each hemisphere that have different land cover and will match graphs that show annual...
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BBC

Bbc: Bp Oil Disaster

For Students 9th - 10th
Up to the minute news on the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010. The BBC reports on the impact on the environment and provides an interactive guide to stopping the leak itself. In addition, find maps that clearly define the...
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Other

Cynthia Cudaback: Self Contained Gulf Oil Spill Kit [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a kit that you can create to help understand the impact of an oil spill and the logistics of the clean-up effort. Unfortunately, real-life oil spills are not quite as easy to clean up.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Evolving Tce Biodegraders

For Teachers 11th - 12th
A hypothetical scenario is introduced in which the class is asked to apply their understanding of the forces that drive natural selection to prepare a proposal along with an environmental consulting company to help clean up an area near...
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...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sugar Spill!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this activity, students act as environmental engineers involved with the clean up of a toxic spill. Using bioremediation as the process, students select which bacteria they will use to eat up the pollutant spilled. Students learn how...
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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PBS

Pbs America Rebuilds

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at many of people involved in the clean up of the World Trade Center cleanup, as well as looking at those who determined what to do with the site. You will find video clips from the program on the site.
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Curated OER

U.s. Department of the Interior

For Students 9th - 10th
Has great information on environmental clean up sites around the U.S. as well as articles about protecting the environment. It is a very clear and educational way to learn about environmental restoration.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Air Pollution

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to the concept of air quality by investigating the composition, properties, atmospheric layers and everyday importance of air. They explore the sources and effects of visible and invisible air pollution. By...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Life Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This unit covers the processes of photosynthesis, extinction, biomimicry and bioremediation. In the first lesson on photosynthesis, students learn how engineers use the natural process of photosynthesis as an exemplary model of a complex...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Classroom Helpers

For Students Pre-K - K
Hi neighbor! In this game, be a helper in Daniel's classroom by caring for the class pet, watering the class plant, cleaning up and organizing the classroom toys, art center, and cubbies.
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Curated OER

Pbs News Hour Extra: Gulf Oil Spill Could Be Most Damaging in History

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussed is the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the attempts to clean up the oil, animals and industries threatened, policies questioned and a comparison made to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Includes instructional resources. (4 May...

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