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Lesson Plan
Chymist

Landfills and Recycling

For Students 9th - 12th
Examine the nature of landfills through experimentation. Scholars build miniature landfills and monitor changes over a six-week period. Observations allow individuals to draw conclusions about the different types of trash and their...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Recycle Milk and Juice Cartons

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this recognizing the importance of recycling worksheet, students complete a cryptograph, read facts about milk and juice cartons, and read about making crafts from trash. Students write 10 answers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Recycling Quiz

For Students 4th - 6th
Ten multiple questions about recycling comprise this quiz. Administer this as a pre-test prior to presenting a lesson on recycling glass, plastic, and metals. Since an answer key is provided along with comments, you can use it as a guide...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Recycling Plastics

For Students 5th - 8th
For this plastics worksheet, students read about how important it is to recycle plastics and why sorting the recycle materials is important. Students then complete 4 short answer questions.
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The Trash We Pass

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Where does our garbage go? What is the difference between a recyclable and non-recyclable item? Pose these important, but often overlooked, questions to your class and invite them to consider the lasting and damaging effects of the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Waste Not, Want Not – Recycling

For Students 5th
In this recycling worksheet, 5th graders read a selection about recycling, renewable, and non-renewable resources. They answer 6 questions based on the reading by defining words, separating trash into renewable and non-renewable...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Should Recycling be Required?

For Students 7th - 9th
In this recycling activity, students use 10 give terms to complete the sentences about trash, landfills, recycling and energy. They also answer 2 questions about trash collection fees and the economics of recycling.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Leaching Landfills

For Students 4th - 5th
In this leaching landfills worksheet, students conduct an experiment by following the procedures, observing the results and discussing the conclusion about how garbage leaches into our water.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Recycling

For Students 9th - 12th
In this recycling learning exercise, students review what items can be recycled, what is made from recycled items, and how recycling conserves resources. This learning exercise has 5 word scramble, 10 short answer, and 5 multiple choice...
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Curated OER

Landfill Word Search

For Students 7th - 10th
In this landfill learning exercise, students find 11 words associated with modern landfills such as hazardous waste and municipal waste in this landfill word search.
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Curated OER

The Ugly Duckling's Journey to Away - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this recycling activity 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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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Case of the Broken Loop

For Students 4th - 5th
In this environmental awareness worksheet, 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 and a...
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Curated OER

Recycling Rapping

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this recycling worksheet, students read facts about recycling. Students complete a word scramble and a maze for the recycling activity.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Recycling Statistics

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this environment worksheet, students look for the answers to the environmental impact of recycling in Great Britain with the statistics from the pie graph.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Recycle Every Day

For Students 3rd
In this recycling worksheet, 3rd graders complete a word search.  Students locate 36 words in the puzzle, all associated with reuse of various items.
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Lesson Plan
Wilderness Classroom

Pollution

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Educate scholars on pollution—air, water, and land—with a series of lessons that begin with a thorough explanation of each type. Learners then take part in three activities to reinforce the importance of reducing pollution. They...
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Activity
PBS

A Little Recycling Goes A Long Way

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Every time you purchase something from the store, it goes into a bag, but what happens to the bag? This lesson encourages your learners to think about what happens to those plastic and paper bags and their effect on the environment. Use...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Where Does Our Rubbish Go?

For Students 5th
In this environmental issues worksheet, 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 some...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Landfills and Dumps

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this environmental issues worksheet, students learn about sanitary landfills and dumps by reading a one page information text. Students also study the cross section of a landfill. There are no questions to answer.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Second Time Around

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this recycling worksheet, learners read how landfills are being filled up because of the amount of trash each person throws out per day. Students list ways to recycle nine different items. These items include a paper bag, coffee...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Trash To Treasure

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this environmental worksheet, students learn about reusing trash and making crafts and useful items instead of throwing it into a landfill. Students study 15 pictures of crafts and list as many trash items as they can find.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using Land

For Students 6th - 8th
In this using land worksheet, middle schoolers determine if effects on the environment are due to natural or man-made causes. This worksheet has 10 fill in the blank and 4 short answer questions.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Ways To Go Green

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this environmental awareness worksheet, students learn how to "go green" by reading 10 tips that can be used in everyday life. Students answer 10 multiple choice questions. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
Captain Planet Foundation

Worm Your Way Out of This

For Teachers 3rd
How can you provide healthy soil for your garden? Study worms, bacteria, and other microorganisms in a lesson about decomposition and organic compost. After discussing what you know about worms and watching a video, watch what worms do...