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US Environmental Protection Agency

Teach English, Teach About the Environment

For Teachers K - 12th
Spread the message of recycling while teaching your English language learners new vocabulary and practicing verb tenses. Included here are four lesson plans for each level (beginning, intermediate, and advanced) as well as accompanying...
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Recycle Lifecycle

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the recycling process. In this recycling lesson, students read the article The Recycling Process After Collection and discuss the advantages of recycling. As an extension activity, students simulate the molding of...
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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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Reuse, Reduce, Recycle Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars experiment with recycling paper. In this paper recycling instructional activity, students conduct an experiment in which they dissolve newspaper in water and cornstarch to make new pieces of paper. They add color or...
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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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Recycling

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the recycling process. In this recycling lesson, students gain understanding of how garbage is disposed of. Students makes lists of things that can be recycled. Students discuss how animals and plants are damaged by...
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Earth Day - Reduce - Reuse - Recycle

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this Earth Day worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences, match words to definitions, and make slogans for pictures about reducing, reusing, and recycling. Students complete 3 activities.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover the differences between: reduce, reuse, and recycle by performing hands on examinations. They list what would happen to the soil if we allowed the earth to wash away and briefly discuss the meaning of erosion.
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Recycled Catalog Jewelry

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create paper beads from colorful paper recycled from catalogs, magazines, brochures, colored paper scraps, wrapping paper, and junk mail. Students create a colorful necklace from their beads.
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Solid Waste Recycling

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students plan a "no garbage" lunch and hold a classroom contest to sort grabage into what can and what can't be recycled. They assess the importance of reducing the amount of garbage in the environment and set up a book recycling program.
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Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students determine the differences between the terms reduce, reuse and recycle. Students complete a worksheet after a book is read, or information from a website is shared. Students brainstorm ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.
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Protecting the Environment

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this environmental worksheet, students will read 2 different situations and decide whether it's an example of reducing, reusing, or recycling. Then students will give short answers to 3 questions.
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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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Scientific Inquiry

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a poster. In this recycling lesson, students discuss pollution and the ways humans negatively affect the environment. Students describe examples of litter or pollution they have experienced. Students collect litter from...
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Roll Away Trees

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in a simulation involving newspaper, food coloring, water, and more to observe the debarking process of producing wood. In this wood lesson plan, 1st graders also measure, and learn about reducing, reusing, and...
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SF Environment

Sort and Color!

For Teachers K - 1st
Sorting is a very important skill that can be used in math and even science. Learners get familiar with some environmentally friendly vocabulary terms as they practice separating objects that can be recycled from those that can't. They...
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Recycling Litter - Reduce Reuse Recycle Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Student create their own ways to help the environment. In this recycling lesson, students explore how to identify many different types of waste materials, know what types of waste materials can be reduced, reused, and recycled, and...
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Make Your Own Newspaper Plant Pots

For Teachers K - 4th
Students make plant pots out of newspaper as part of a recycle, reuse, and reduce instructional activity. In this recycling instructional activity, students fold a piece of newspaper to make a pot in which to start plants. They fill it...
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students develop a recycling plan. For this environmental lesson, students develop a recycling plan for their school. Students write an outline of the plan to present to their class.
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Recycle and Respect!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how they can be a philanthropist. In this recycling instructional activity, students learn what it means to recycle and discuss why items need to be recycled. Students review the term philanthropy and practice this by...
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Earth Day: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students list ways to reduce, reuse and recycle, and produce an acrostic poem reflecting their understanding about Earth Day. They also use the Internet to integrate technology into learning.
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The Three R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students understand conservation terms. In this three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) lesson, students understand the importance of preserving a clean world and reducing waste. Students sing a song which show importance of 3R's.
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Recycling Activities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explain the importance of recycling. In this environmental science instructional activity, students classify materials as recyclable or not. They make posters that promote the benefits of recycling.
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Junk Mail

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this junk mail activity, students count the junk mail they get sent to their house and write how they can reduce, reuse, or recycle it. Students come up with 1 way for each.

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