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Great Lakes Recycle: Recycled Products Showcase

For Students 9th - 10th
This Great Lakes Recycle site allows you see pictures and descriptions of many items created from recycled goods.
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Other

Tape Sculpture: Tape Casting Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
A fun casting project to try using clear packing tape. On this site there are step-by-step illustrated instructions plus video and pictoral examples.
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Other

Recycle Runway

For Students 9th - 10th
With a stress on saving and protecting the environment, these clothes are handmade from materials such as aluminum cans and glass.
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Nature's Recyclers Coloring Book

For Students 3rd - 5th
Did you know that nature has its own clean-up crew and recycling staff? Yeah, there aremany plants and animals that help recycle natural materials in our environment. They take deadmaterials and turn them back into rich soil. Use this...
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Better Planet Productions

Earth Care: Recycling: Why Do We Recycle? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A two-page handout on the rationale for recycling and what happens to recycled materials in one community.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Clifford the Big Red Dog: Let's Make Music!

For Students Pre-K - K
Explore music at home and in class with homemade instruments. In "Top of the Charts," Emily Elizabeth gets inspired to create the happiest song in the world. Emily Elizabeth, Jack, Pablo, Samantha, and Clifford pool their talents and...
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Make Art From Guitar Strings

For Students 9th - 10th
The perfect project idea for anyone who loves music. Gather your materials and create dozens of variations.
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Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Sculpture Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides eight art activities which teach students of all age to make a variety of sculptures. Activities provided include: "Mat Board Sculpture," "Create a Butterfly Mobile," and "Carve a Free-Form Sculpture."
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Make a Hollow Book

For Students 9th - 10th
If you have a hardback book you don't want anymore this is a creative idea to recycle it. Use it as a secret storage place or a spring board for some art ideas.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Make a Yo Yo From Recycled Stuff

For Students 3rd - 5th
This activity explains how to use materials that might otherwise be recycled in order to create a yo-yo.
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wikiHow

Wiki How How to Make an Umbrella Skirt

For Students 9th - 10th
Collect all those unusable umbrellas and recycle them into an article of clothing.
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Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Trash Matcher

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Crayola

Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan incorporates art, drama, social studies, and language arts. Students use recycled paper and boxes to create a castle, then use it as inspiration to write and act out their own play. (To access this lesson plan, you must...
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Planet Pals

Planet Pals: Dryer Lint Crafts

For Students 9th - 10th
A planet-friendly site for children and educators. This area covers recycling dryer lint to create crafts like papier mache, lint clay and lint paper.
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Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Scratch Paper Sketch Pad

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Kids at Art emphasizes the importance of recycling and conservation with this simple way to reuse paper for drawing purposes.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Alternative Sources for Paper Fiber

For Students 6th - 8th
If you're interested in arts and crafts, you might like this project. It uses several alternative, renewable sources of fiber to make paper, and compares the resulting papers for strength and writing quality.
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Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Create a Butterfly Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site provides information on Alexander Calder, the inventor of the kinetic sculpture known as the mobile, as well as detailed instructions on how to create your own butterfly mobile. Included are "Tips and Tricks" to making "a more...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Build a Balloon Car

For Students 6th - 8th
With craft and recycled materials, kids can make all kinds of rolling vehicles. Add balloons to make this balloon car and see Newton's laws of motion in action.
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Crayola

Crayola: Insect Addition Game

For Students 1st - 2nd
Learning how to add two or more numbers? This appealing, child-made board game integrates, math, science, and the visual arts using an Earth-friendly recycled box.
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Crayola

Crayola: Money in the Bank

For Teachers K - 1st
Young bankers and storekeepers practice counting money and making change. They keep their money in this recycled-box bank.
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Make a Starburst Wrapper Chain

For Students 9th - 10th
This how-to guide describes the process of making chains from candy wrappers.
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Other

Think Green: Earth Day Project Ideas: Grades 6 8 [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Give your young scholars 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]
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Curated OER

How to Make Art From Guitar Strings

For Students 9th - 10th
The perfect project idea for anyone who loves music. Gather your materials and create dozens of variations.
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Children's Discovery Museum

Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Make a Cardboard Train

For Students 3rd - 5th
Show off your artistic skills by creating your own cardboard train using recyclable materials in your home.

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