Creator: Recycling Facts Guide | visit site
Grade Range: 6 - 11
Get your recycling facts from this source. Find a mountain of information about recycling mountains of stuff! View a variety of articles on this site. Click menu items at the top to find 3 simple rules for recycling, the recycling guide for what can and cannot be recycled, recycling myths, and more.
In the Classroom
Use the information on this site to inform students about the various items that can be recycled. Consider using the site as background information for student created surveys for students and their families to complete. Use the information from the surveys to develop a campaign to bring awareness to consumption and use patterns that can save money for families as well as landfill space. Create a survey or a poll using Obsurvey, <a href="/single.cfm?id=10383">reviewed here</a>. Use this site for meeting the Common Core Standards for nonfiction reading. Provide a link to the Recycling Facts Guide on your class website. Create a student project where students use information on this site to create a campaign to promote awareness about recycling. Debate recycling and recycling programs by comparing information from this site and others as well as misconceptions many may have. Use the information here to establish a recycling campaign in your school or community. Use this site as inspiration to write a story or cartoon based on the life of a particular resource.
At Home
Interested in changing how your family uses and disposes of resources? Find great information here on this resourceful site. Share this site with your older student to gather ideas about how to conserve and recycle in college and beyond.
Tags
resources, conservation, consumers, recycling,
Subjects
Biology/Life Science, Chemistry, Current Events, Earth Science/Geology, Engineering/Technology, Language Arts, Reading, Science,