recycling (waste)

Explores how people around the world recycle and reuse metal, and provides ideas on how kids can too.

Discusses efforts to save the environment through recycling and waste management.

Introduces math and problem solving skills in response to challenges posed after a storm creates a mess at Hall School and students plan ways to clean up and work to improve their playground.

Addresses the issue of plastic waste, explains how plastic is used and where it comes from, looks at how people waste plastic, and suggests ways for reducing, reusing, and recycling plastic.

Addresses the issue of glass waste, explains how glass is used and where it comes from, looks at how people waste glass, and suggests ways for reducing, reusing, and recycling glass.

Addresses the issue of paper waste, explains how paper is used and where it comes from, looks at how people waste paper, and suggests ways for reducing, reusing, and recycling paper.

Discusses the difference between reusing and recycling, examines some of the challenges involved in recycling, looks at the environmental benefits of the practice, and considers the future of recycling.

Describes the issue of waste, including waste types, disposal, and costs; methods, payoffs and problems of reduction, reuse, and recycling; and attitudes about waste management and the environment. Also includes a glossary and lists of related organizations, books, and Web sites.

Mr. Day's fourth-grade class has a contest, recycling bottles and cans so that they will have enough money to buy a guinea pig. Includes four pages of story problems.

Provides patterns and detailed instructions for fifteen crafts made from junk.