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Recycling Revolution: Recycling Facts
Lists facts about recycling aluminum, paper, plastic, and glass, and about solid waste and landfills.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Recycle Reduce Reuse
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a lesson on the 3 R's-recycle, reduce, and reuse.
Channel 4 Learning
4 Learning: Geography Essentials: Improving the Environment
An introduction to how we can help improve the environment. Focuses on reusing and recycling.
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Make a Yo Yo From Recycled Stuff
This activity explains how to use materials that might otherwise be recycled in order to create a yo-yo.
Better Planet Productions
Earth Care: Recycling: Why Do We Recycle? [Pdf]
A two-page handout on the rationale for recycling and what happens to recycled materials in one community.
Better Planet Productions
Earth Care: Recycling Survey [Pdf]
For this activity, students construct a survey about recycling practices in their school and community, then share the results in class and draw conclusions.
Other
City of Phoenix: Recyclesaurus Activity Book [Pdf]
This activity book teaches about reducing, reusing, and recycling materials. Students can decode words, color, do a word scramble, and learn how to compost. Written in both English and Spanish.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: North Pole: What Are Some New Materials We Can Get From Natural Materials?
Oscar is on a holiday cruise with his parents to see the North Pole. During this trip, Oscar sees lots of different objects which are made of different materials. Discover facts about these materials, learn about the importance of...
Read Works
Read Works: Too Much Trash
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about recycling to reduce trash in landfills. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Team Up to Clean Up
In 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...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Waste Not Want Not
Practice reading with Martha with this illustrated, read-along story about the environment and recycling.
Other
Bc Heritage Websites Prog: A Visit to a B. C. General Store: Product Packaging
Learn about the history of product packaging which began in the sixteenth century. Test you knowledge on product packaging and reuse in the 1800s.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Bag and Old T Shirt
Turn an old t-shirt into a reusable shopping bag for a trip the market, or even to the pool. Then, print the Climate Kids banner on the front and the Leaps and Flutters game on the back. Bring along a die, and find a couple of rocks or...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Liberty Lands
In this What's Up In The Environment? video segment, learn how a contaminated plot of land in Philadelphia was recycled into a beautiful public park called Liberty Lands.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Land, Waste, and Cleanup Topics
This site is loaded with information on solid waste and hazardous waste. It includes industries' effects on the environment, waste programs, treatment, control, pollution prevention, recycling, and cleanup programs.
Globio
Glossopedia: Earth Day
Earth Day is a worldwide celebration held annually on April 22nd. The purposes of Earth Day, the history of and the various activities held around the world are described. Activities and projects that can be done daily or year round are...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Sail a Boat Lesson Plan
An hands-on lesson where students create a wind powered boat with their knowledge of reusing, recycling of materials, and wind power.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environment
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...
eSchool Today
E School Today: What Young People Can Do to Help With Waste Management
A quick guide for students for helping with waste management through reducing, reusing, and recycling.
Other
Colts Neck Township Schools: Hands on Technology: Boxes, Bags and Bottles [Pdf]
Printable classroom-ready worksheets for tallying up and commenting on the waste, reusables, and recyclables associated with packed school lunches. (Reposted to CEED site)
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Waste Not, Want Not: Use the Microbial Fuel Cell to Create Elec
Gross. What is that in the toilet? But maybe it's not just gross. Did you know there are bacteria that digest organic waste and create electrons? What if there was a way to collect those electrons to power a circuit? In this science fair...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Shades of Gray(water)
Students are introduced to the concepts of graywater and water reuse within households. They calculate the amount of used water a family generates in one day and use a model of home plumbing to find out how much graywater is produced in...
Better Planet Productions
Earth Care: Once More With Feeling [Pdf]
For this activity, students will explore creative ways that materials can be reused. They will then create a commercial to advertise innovative ideas. Follow-up suggestions include having a sale or contacting local secondhand stores.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Water Recycling Process
This article explains how a siphon works.
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