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Recycle Milk and Juice Cartons

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this recognizing the importance of recycling instructional activity, 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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Educator’s Guide to Planning a Field Day Event

For Teachers K - 5th
Plan an environmentally friendly field day for your young conservationists with this collection of activities and resources. Whether it's bowling with plastic bags full of crumpled up newspaper and empty plastic...
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Earth Day: a Look Into the World Around Us

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop an artwork made entirely out of recycled materials to exhibit during an Earth Day celebration. They participate in a lecture discussion on the history of Earth Day and environmental issues, do internet research on a...
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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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100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the possible ways to recycle, reuse, and re-imagine products and objects in order to reduce pollution and waste on our planet. In this 100 things you can do to save the planet lesson, students take three actions to...
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Honey, I Shrunk the Lids!

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars discover the lightweighting concept used by manufacturers. In this environmental education lesson plan, students research the reduction of the amount of aluminum used in cans. Young scholars wrap the lesson plan up by...
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Water Cycle Reading and Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a great way to get pupils to express a scientific concept in a fun way. After hearing the story of Walter the Water drop and learning facts about the water cycle, the class will write a creative expository piece describing what...
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Making Your Own Sampling Tools

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars begin a class recycling project. They create data sampling equipment using their own designs and test them in the field.
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Kids Astronomy

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this astronomy word scramble worksheet, students examine the 16 letter groupings and use the decoder to help them reveal the 16 astronomy terms listed at the bottom of the worksheet,
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A Review of Lessons and Options

For Teachers K - 8th
Students participate in a number of activities that reinforce the knowledge they have learned from previous units over waste management.
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Reusing Winter Waste

For Teachers K - 4th
Students use waste materials to build a snowman decoration. In this reusing lesson, students create a new object out of disposable items left over from the holidays. Students discuss ways of cutting down waste. Students understand how...
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Build a Journal

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils prepare for field journaling at Yosemite Institute. They create and decorate their Institute journal giving them both a place to journal and ownership of it.
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Make a Spaceship

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a spaceship, satellite, or space station. In this space lesson, students consider design elements for buildings and objects in space. Students use K'Nex, Legos, or other household materials for their creation. Students...