Recycling & Waste Reduction Lessons/Activities

All lesson plans are in PDF format (unless otherwise noted) and have been reviewed and field tested in formal school classroom settings. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions about the materials listed below please send an email to us at FeedtheBin "at" wakegov.com

Teacher Background Handout Teacher Curriculum Workshops Waste & Recycling Historical Timeline	Linking to the N.C. Standards: Science Tie-in Document Linking to the N.C. Standards: Geography & Env. Literacy Tie-in
Lesson Plans By Unit:	Lesson Plans By Topic:
Feed The Bin (4 lessons) Close the Loop (4 lessons) All About Plastics – Gr. K–5 (4 lessons) All About Plastics – Gr. 6–8 (2 lessons) Composting – Elementary version (7 lessons) Composting – Middle version (2 lessons) Litter Prevention (1 lesson) Starve the Landfill (4 lessons) Program Mascot: PaperGuy	General Recycling: What am I made of? Matching Activity Make a MRF: Build Your Own Recycling Factory Sequencing Recycling at Our School Buy Recycled – Friendly Letters Life Cycle of Paper and Aluminum Buy Recycled – Business Letters Plastics Lessons: Plastics Poetry Human Bar Graph Plastics Sight Words Properties of Plastics Plastics Sorting and Identification Polymer Fun Chemical & Physical Properties of Plastics Waste and Landfill Lessons: Garbage Pizza: A No Waste Take on the Original Word Problems and Reading Comprehension: EOG Review Activities Building a Landfill Model Understanding the Waste Stream using Pie Graphs Trash Sort Matching Activity Composting Lessons: Elementary Level: What Can We Compost? Compost is Hot! - Taking Temperature Compost Card Game - learn compost "ingredients" Planting With Compost "Diary of a Worm" - read aloud activity Building a Mini-Composter Compost Relay Race Middle Level: Deciphering Decomposers Decompose This! Back to Top