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- Waste: At the Source Gr. 5-8
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Explore how waste and pollution impacts on people, wildlife and the ecosystem. Our resource takes your students from the background and causes of waste to pollution and its impact on our lands and oceans. Start by answering the question, what is waste? Then, create a brochure to encourage factories to lessen the amount of pre-consumer waste. Find out what post-consumer waste can be reused again. See how much waste is a result of packaging. Create a diorama to illustrate the life cycle of a product. Get a sense on how landfills work. Present your own news report on the dangers that is toxic waste. Develop a school action plan to battle pollution. Finally, find out what you can do to help reduce waste in our oceans. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Prevention, Recycling & Conservation Gr. 5-8
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Discover prevention methods for waste and pollution while conserving the environment. Our resource provides easy to understand initiatives so students can start helping the planet Earth. Get familiar with Earth's natural resources and what you can do to help conserve them. Hold a contest to find the most useful and creative ways to reuse everyday items. Conduct an audit of each classroom in your school to see if things that should be recycled are getting recycled. Get down and dirty by building a classroom compost. Learn where the water in your sink goes and whether or not it's safe to drink. Write a report about greenhouse gases, using information collected from the Internet. Finally, learn all about alternative fuels as you create your own green business guide. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Waste: The Global View Gr. 5-8
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Empower your students to help manage all types of waste across the globe. Our resource explores waste all around the world caused by natural and man-made disasters. Put on a fair to showcase different products that can be made from unused plant parts on farms. Research different clean-up operations of old mines across the country. Learn the hard truth about oil spills with a case study on Exxon Valdez. Conduct a class debate to discuss the advantages and disadvantages to nuclear energy. Find out that not all waste is caused by humans. Recognize the dangers of waste produced by natural disasters. Make a model to demonstrate the devastating effects that space junk can have. Get a sense of what waste costs by evaluating the bio-economical costs of resources used in your home or school. Create a plan to help your school become a zero waste community. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Waste Management Big Book Gr. 5-8
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Know once and for all what happens to things we throw out with our Waste Management 3-book BUNDLE. Start by exploring how waste and pollution impacts on people, wildlife and the ecosystem with Waste: At the Source. Create a diorama to illustrate the life cycle of a product. Develop a school action plan to battle pollution. Next, discover prevention methods for waste and pollution with Prevention, Recycling & Conservation. Hold a contest to find the most useful and creative ways to reuse everyday items. Get down and dirty by building a classroom compost. Finally, empower your students to help manage all types of waste across the globe with Waste: The Global View. Put on a fair to showcase different products that can be made from unused plant parts on farms. Conduct a class debate to discuss the advantages and disadvantages to nuclear energy. Each concept is paired with hands-on activities. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
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