Recycling

Welcome to the Recycling Room for Educators!

Here you will find several links to environmental web sites, as well as other educational information on waste reduction, recycling, resource conservation, pollution prevention, composting, etc.

• Aluminum Recycling
• Amazing Recycled Products 
• Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory
• An Ounce of Prevention - National Science Teachers Association Middle School Source Reduction Curriculum is available electronically in PDF format.
• CMI (Can Manufacturer's Institute) - The Aluminum Beverage Cans (ABC's) of Environmental Education includes background information, in-class experiments and extracurricular activities intended to meet the environmental education material guidelines of the North American Association for Environmental Education and Project 2061's Benchmarks for Science Literacy.  
• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
• Colorado Recycles
• Colorado Association For Recycling
• Creative Exchange - Non-profit agency that channels reusable byproducts from businesses to educators, students, and community groups for use in the arts, creative learning, and play.
• Earth Day Bags
• edHelper.com Earth Day Education Tools
• Environmental Education EE-Link
• EPA's Environmental Education Center for Teachers -  Resources to help teachers (K-12) and other educators including guides, curricula, information about grants, a selection of documents to introduce environmental topics, and other Internet resources.
• Glass Packaging Institute  - Order a free copy of "Teacher's Guide to Glass Container Recycling" which includes an "interactive poster" for students and grade-appropriate reproducible pages of information.
• Green Teacher - Education for Planet Earth
• Keep America Beautiful
• Kids and Classrooms - Helping Young Minds Grow     (National Gardening Assn.)
• NAPCOR  (National Association for PET Container Resources)  plastic's recycling
• National Soft Drink Association
• National Gardening Association
• National Waste Prevention Coalition - King County, Washington
• Plastics Resource   American Plastics Council, includes a "virtual tour" of the Smart House. 
• Scott Resources, Inc. (Fort Collins,CO)  Produces math and science classroom teaching products (videos).
• Steel Learning Center
• Steel Recycling Institute  - has educational products for purchase. Click on the "Education" icon for a listing of available materials such as ROSCOE, the finger puppet) Kit, ROSCOE's Totally Cycled World Interactive CD-ROM, Earth Cycles, and more.
• The ULS Report - is a bimonthly newsletter created to help people Use Less Stuff by conserving resources and reducing waste. It takes a commonsense approach to waste prevention, relying on facts and figures rather than simply rising and falling with the tides of public opinion.

Recycling and Waste Reduction Lesson Plans

Looking for waste reduction lesson plans? Here are a few that can easily be adapted to your grade level in pdf format.

Grade Levels 1-4

• Grade 1 - Packaging Lesson: "Bag Lunch"
• Grade 2 - Natural Resources Lesson: "Litter Garden"
• Grade 2 - Waste Disposal Lesson: "Litter Walk"
• Grade 3 - Waste Disposal Lesson: "Pile it On"
• Grade 4 - Three R's Lesson: "Digging Up The Facts"

Grade Levels 7-8

• Grade 7 - Three R's Lesson: "Who Recycles in Your County or Community"
• Grade 8 - Natural Resources Lesson: "Reducing Waste in The Home Environment"

The Oregon Green School Tools - Creating Healthy School Environments through Resource Efficiency

This tool is written for principals, custodians, teachers, students, parents, kitchen staff, site councils, classified staff, or school volunteers who are working on improving the health and livability of their school environment. Download The Oregon Green School Tools (pdf format).

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