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Aluminum Can Drive

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a recycling project to clean-up their school. In this service project lesson, 2nd graders assess their campus for litter, set up a recycling project, clean up their campus, and recycle the trash. Students also...
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Recycling: The Way to Save...Fad or Fact

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students write stories about recycling and illustrate them. They examine various containers and determine whether or not they are recyclable. They make a chart about the containers and visit a recycling center.
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Mixed Media Messages: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the process of recycling by creating a mock television commercial about recycling. In this recycling lesson, students watch an animated demonstration about recycling and answer content questions. Students play an online...
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Action, Please!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create an advertising campaign. In this environmental education lesson, students research aluminum and aluminum can recycling. Students wrap the lesson up by writing newspaper articles, creating public service announcements, and...
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Let's Recycle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this activities about recycling worksheet, students identify items recycled in their area, solve a maze, and color the pictures. Students write 11 answers.
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Reduce Reuse Recycle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover methods that can save the planet by recycling.  In this sustainable planet lesson, students read The Berenstein Bears Don't Pollute Anymore, and practice memorizing the 3 R's.  Students write commitment...
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Powers of Persuasion

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Did you know that clothing and textiles can be recycled, just like glass, paper, aluminum, and plastic? Pupils are introduced to textile recycling and design persuasive posters or letters that raise awareness about this unique...
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Information, Please!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore their community recycling program and observe how aluminum cans are processed for recycling.
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Recycling Vocabulary Maze

For Students 4th - 6th
In this recycling vocabulary worksheet, students find their way through a maze by using clues about recycling and spelling out words. A reference web site is included for additional activities. 
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Waste Not Want Not

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to the need to save natural resources. Through inquiry, hands-on activities, and problem solving, students increase their understanding of solid waste materials and the need to reduce, recycle, and reuse.
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Recycling and Reusing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete the associated worksheets as they investigate ways to recycle and reuse common objects. They share ideas on reusing objects while practicing listening, speaking and note-taking skills.
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Recycling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the pros and cons of recycling on the environment. They sort and classify objects for recycling and write a brief narrative about the experience. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.
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Earth Day, Every Day

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Earth Day reading comprehension worksheet, students read a one page article about recycling. Students then complete 4 multiple choice questions about the story and do 3 matching problems with the vocabulary.
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How Long Does Trash Last

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students work in cooperative groups to estimate how long trash lasts in a landfill. They study environmental consequences of not recycling and use graph-making software to create a graph that illustrates the lifespan of trash items...
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In The Quest For Sustainable Stuff

For Students 6th - 8th
For this environment worksheet, students read nine pages about recycling and focus upon how products can be produced to help save the environment.
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A Cleaner Today for a Greener Tomorrow

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine recycling efforts. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students trace recycling efforts and script a skit regarding incandescent light bulbs' effect on the environment.
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Recycling!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore environmental awareness by participating in a recycling activity. In this sustainability activity, students identify methods in which things can be reused, such as paper. Young scholars utilize aluminum foil, a...
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Solid Waste/Recycling

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners see that when we throw away garbage, it usually ends up in a landfill. Landfill space is getting increasingly scarce, and every time we throw something away we throw with it the energy, the money, and the raw materials it took...
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Good Litter, Bad Litter

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Which ones can be thrown on the ground? Discover the difference between natural litter and unhealthy trash, helping scholars by using several examples. Use the information here to give them a basic background, but also encourage prior...
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ESOL Environment and the World

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine a recyling bin and the many different items that can be recycled. They practice loading the recyclie bin and using the correct vocabulary to explain each item.
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Trash Flash Through Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars describe ways in which solid waste was disposed in the past and the present. They survey an older citizen about his/her solid waste disposal methods. They discover solid waste practices from long ago.
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Earth Day Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students analyze Earth science by answering environmental study questions. In this Earth Day lesson plan, students read the book The Lorax and identify the themes within it. Students define several recycling vocabulary terms and create...
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Fact and Opinion 3: Post Test

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fact and opinion worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about facts and opinions where they identify sentences and identify facts or opinions. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Earth Day - Hooray

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to the story, Earth Day - Hooray!, and discuss the story as it is being read.  In this Earth Day lesson, students discuss incentives and penalties in regards to taking care of the Earth.  This lesson plan also...