Activities & Lessons
Recycling Game
This is a great game for students to play when learning about the concept of recycling and the importance of it. This is an interactive game that allows students to place objects in their correct place such as trash and recyclables. This will help students learn what should be recycled and what should not be.
Coloring Pages
These are great printables of scenes and images relating to the environment for students to color.
Recycling Songs
This site provides lyrics and audio versions of recycling songs to teach and sing with your students.
This is a great game for students to play when learning about the concept of recycling and the importance of it. This is an interactive game that allows students to place objects in their correct place such as trash and recyclables. This will help students learn what should be recycled and what should not be.
Coloring Pages
These are great printables of scenes and images relating to the environment for students to color.
Recycling Songs
This site provides lyrics and audio versions of recycling songs to teach and sing with your students.
Websites for Teachers & Parents
25 Ways to Conserve Water in the Home and Yard
This website is full of ways to convserve water and while it is not ideal for children, it can be helpful to parents and teachers to learn and share their knowledge with their children and students. Adults who set a good example and are knowledgable about water conservation will help children understand and value this concept too.
Rotten Truth About Garbage
This is a great wesite for teachers to use as research for creating lessons. The website is made up of exhibitions about what garbage is, where is goes, nature recyclables, and making choices.
This website is full of ways to convserve water and while it is not ideal for children, it can be helpful to parents and teachers to learn and share their knowledge with their children and students. Adults who set a good example and are knowledgable about water conservation will help children understand and value this concept too.
Rotten Truth About Garbage
This is a great wesite for teachers to use as research for creating lessons. The website is made up of exhibitions about what garbage is, where is goes, nature recyclables, and making choices.
Websites for Kids
Learning About Natural Resources - Discovery Education
This is a great website that is user-friendly for kids and provides a short video clip that serves as a great introduction to natural resources.
This is a great website that is user-friendly for kids and provides a short video clip that serves as a great introduction to natural resources.
Books
The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling.
By Alison Inches. Illus. by Pete Whitehead. 2009. 24p. Little Simon, (978-1416967880).Gr. K-3.
This book is narrated by the bottle in question as it goes on a journey from a refinery plant to a manufacturing line to a store shelf to a garbage can and finally to a recycling plant, before reemerging, through the wonders of plastic recycling, as a fleece jacket. Readers share the daily experiences and inner thoughts contained in the bottle's diary entries. The book is entertaining and at the same time eye-opening, pointing out the ecological significance behind
consumer products and the resources used to make them.
Why Should I Save Water? By Jen Green. Illus. by Mike Gordon. 2005. 32p. Barron's Educational Series, (978-0764131578). Gr. K-4.
Children learn that clean water is one of our most precious natural resources. In this book, boys and girls are told about dozens of ways in which they and their families can avoid wasting water. Part of every child's development involves asking questions. Today, some of the most important questions kids ask are related to the natural environment. The enlightening and entertaining four-book Why Should I? series demonstrates the importance of protecting nature. Books present brief, entertaining stories that answer children's questions and feature amusing color illustrations on every page. A note at the back of each book is for parents and teachers, suggesting ways to use these books most effectively.
By Alison Inches. Illus. by Pete Whitehead. 2009. 24p. Little Simon, (978-1416967880).Gr. K-3.
This book is narrated by the bottle in question as it goes on a journey from a refinery plant to a manufacturing line to a store shelf to a garbage can and finally to a recycling plant, before reemerging, through the wonders of plastic recycling, as a fleece jacket. Readers share the daily experiences and inner thoughts contained in the bottle's diary entries. The book is entertaining and at the same time eye-opening, pointing out the ecological significance behind
consumer products and the resources used to make them.
Why Should I Save Water? By Jen Green. Illus. by Mike Gordon. 2005. 32p. Barron's Educational Series, (978-0764131578). Gr. K-4.
Children learn that clean water is one of our most precious natural resources. In this book, boys and girls are told about dozens of ways in which they and their families can avoid wasting water. Part of every child's development involves asking questions. Today, some of the most important questions kids ask are related to the natural environment. The enlightening and entertaining four-book Why Should I? series demonstrates the importance of protecting nature. Books present brief, entertaining stories that answer children's questions and feature amusing color illustrations on every page. A note at the back of each book is for parents and teachers, suggesting ways to use these books most effectively.
Assessments
Energy & Recycling Quiz
This is a quiz created for children on energy and recycling that inclues an answer key and information.
Recycle Round-Up
This is a great kid-friendly, interactive website that invites kids to sort objects by recyclables, compost, and trash. The instructions provide a guide of what is
correct for students to study before hand. This is a great activity or assessment tool.
This is a quiz created for children on energy and recycling that inclues an answer key and information.
Recycle Round-Up
This is a great kid-friendly, interactive website that invites kids to sort objects by recyclables, compost, and trash. The instructions provide a guide of what is
correct for students to study before hand. This is a great activity or assessment tool.