Education & Training

Lesson Plans By Unit        Lesson Plans By Topic         Curriculum Ties to FTB
                                                                                                K-8 Science
Teacher Background Doc                                                   K-8 Social Studies
Waste & Recycling History Timeline                                                

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Teacher Resources

	All lesson plan activities are available as a Teacher Kit and can be checked out by Feed the Bin Program school teachers to use in their classrooms.
	K–8 teachers can also sign up to participate in our Feed the Bin Curriculum workshops, which provide teachers with the background knowledge and tools needed to educate students on solid waste issues.

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Lesson Plans:

Teachers can follow up FEED THE BIN presentations with the activities listed below, all of which are correlated to the North Carolina CORE/Essential Standards. If you use an activity, we would appreciate your feedback by completing the online evaluation.

Lessons By Unit:

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)

Lessons By Topic Area:

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!
Compost Card Game
Planting With Compost
"Diary of a Worm"
Building a Mini-Composter
Compost Relay Race

Middle Level:
Deciphering Decomposers
Decompose This!

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Books
Recommended Environmental Books