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The process of converting waste and materials into new materials and objects.

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By turning off lights when leaving the room you can save a lot of energy and reduce electricity demand.

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Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!

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Use less of our natural resources like water, electricity, and gasoline.

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Use something over and over again to avoid waste in our landfills.

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Use materials from old items and make something new.

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Picking up trash outside helps the environment by protecting wildlife, plant life, waterways, soil, and ecosystems from toxic dangerous chemicals.

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Unplugging cords helps because it reduces our carbon emissions

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How does recycling impact the environment?

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How does recycling impact the environment?

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What pieces of trash in our classroom could we upcycle?

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What pieces of trash in our classroom could we upcycle?

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What would happen if we put everything in one recycling bin?

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What would happen if we put everything in one recycling bin?

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What do the 3 R's stand for? What do they mean?

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What do the 3 R's stand for? What do they mean?

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How can you encourage family and friends to recycle?

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How can you encourage family and friends to recycle?

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What is your favorite part of this word wall?

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What is your favorite part of this word wall?

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Carpooling and using bikes can help by reducing the number of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.

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Trees give off oxygen that we need to breathe.

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Landfills are sites that are designed to dispose of rubbish, garbage, and other sorts of solid waste.

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When landfills are used and decomposed methane gas is released. This is a huge contributor to climate change. Recycling is a quick and easy way to keep materials that decompose slowly out of landfills

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When organic material breaks down from big pieces into tiny/microscopic pieces that can be used to help other life grow.

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The long-term changes in global temperatures and other characteristics of the atmosphere.

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Sites that are designed to dispose of garbage and other types of solid waste.

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All the physical surroundings on Earth are called the environment. The environment includes everything living and everything nonliving.

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Litter is trash that ends up on the ground or in lakes and seas, and that shouldn't be there.

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Compost is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer to improve soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties. It is commonly prepared by decomposing plant and food waste, recycling organic materials, and manure.

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Impact can be defined as a ​marked effect or influence on a particular environment.

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Pollution happens when the environment is contaminated, or dirtied, by waste, chemicals, and other harmful substances.

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Protection refers to keeping something or someone safe. We can do our part and recycle to help protect the environment.

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A habitat is a place where living things naturally live and grow. Habitats provide them with the food, water, and shelter they need.

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unwanted and unusable materials.

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sustainability is about small changes we can make to help look after the planet.

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a group of people living near one another who interact socially. People in a community can work together to do big things.

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A resource is a physical material that humans need and value such as land, air, and water.

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Earth's atmosphere is a jacket of gases that surrounds our planet. It keeps us warm, gives us oxygen to breathe, and it is where our weather happens.

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Cause and EffectEvents have causes that generate observable patterns.

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For another activity, students will go outside of the school and pick up trash and log how much trash they pick up. Then the teacher can discuss the effect of trash on the environment.

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ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth SystemsThings that people do to live comfortably can affect the world around them. But they can make choices that reduce their 

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Students will do this worksheet and when they do it can help the students see how they can make choices that positively affect the environment and what choices negatively impact the environment.

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1. Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information in K–2 builds on prior experiences and uses observations and texts to communicate new information.

Communicate solutions with others in oral and/or written forms using models and/or drawings that provide detail about scientific ideas.

Students will create posters with the teacher on what reuse, reduce, and recycle mean.

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Students make pencil holders out of empty toilet paper rolls to see how fun upcycling can be.

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Reduce Reuse Recycle Song for Kids |  Earth Day Songs for Children | The Kiboomers

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The three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle | Happy Learning ♻️ ♻️ ♻️

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Help clean up the park! Your job is to sort the stuff people throw away and put it in the proper bin. Is it recycling, compost, or trash? Get facts about climate change and tips on how you can help save the earth.

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Help clean up the park! Your job is to sort the stuff people throw away and put it in the proper bin. Is it recycling, compost, or trash? Get facts about climate change and tips on how you can help save the earth.

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Learn how humans impact the Earth and ways we can reduce our impacts, such as by following the three R’s: reducing, reusing and recycling. Watch now!

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The topics that are discussed at this facility are the basics of recycling, natural resources, recycling, recycling, and machines, reducing, reusing, recycling, the history of trash, closing the recycle loop, managing waste, and sustainable materials management.

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The Basics of Recycling

Natural Resources and Recycling

Recycling and Machines

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

The History of Trash

Closing the Recycling Loop

Managing Waste & Sustainable Materials Management

Take a walk through a sorting facility designed to accept residential recyclable materials from all over West Michigan. Recyclables are sorted according to material type, then prepared for shipping to the next processor by pressing the recyclables into bales.

Tours are approximately one hour in length and include a classroom discussion about recycling as well as a facility overview on the observation deck overlooking the functioning equipment. The facility offers a safe, clean environment to learn about recycling. Tour times are available when the facility is running, between 8am and 5pm Monday through Friday. Closed-toe shoes are required for this tour.

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Reimagine Trash... as a resource, as a feedstock, as an opportunity.