Education & Training
Frequently Asked Questions about FEED THE BIN
Teacher Resources
All of the activities below are available as
Teacher Kits and can be checked out by WCPSS 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 all of the tools needed to educate students about Solid Waste issues.
Lesson Plans
Teachers can follow-up FEED THE BIN presentations with the activities listed below, all of which are correlated to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCSCOS).
These lessons are also available in Spanish. Please e-mail
FeedtheBin@wakegov.com if you are interested in those. If you use one of the activities, please complete the
online evaluation.
K-2:
Trash Sort Matching Activity
What am I made of? Matching Activity
Plastics Poetry, Human Bar Graph, Float/Sink display and others!
3-5:
Sequencing Recycling at Our School
Buy Recycled – Friendly Letters
Word Problems and Reading Comprehension: EOG Review Activities and Building a Landfill Model
Plastics Poetry, Human Bar Graph, Float/Sink display and others!
3-8:
Make a MRF: Build Your Own Recycling Factory
Garbage Pizza: A No Waste Take on the Original
6-8:
Life Cycle of Paper and Aluminum
Buy Recycled – Business Letters
Understanding the Waste Stream using Pie Graphs
Plastics Sorting and Identification and Polymer Fun: Hands-on, inquiry-based lessons
9-12:
Paper versus Plastic Debate
Buy Recycled – Public Service Announcement
Topographic Maps of the Landfill
The Bottle Bill Battleand Chemical and Physical Properties of Plastics
SPECIAL SUBUNIT: Composting!
These activities are specifically designed to meet the NCSCOS requirements for Compost and Soils in 3rd- and 6th-Grade Science.
Grade 3: Compost Sorting, Compost is Hot!, Make your own Diary of a Worm, and others
Grade 6: Deciphering Decomposers, Decompose This!, Compost vs. Landfill, and others
For more information about the FEED THE BIN recycling program, e-mail feedthebin@wakegov.com or call 919-856-6006.