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Student Resources - K-5

Student Resources

Click on the resources at the right to choose the ways you like to learn. Or click on one of links below to explore another grade level.

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Videos

Watch and learn. These videos will show how the things people buy, use, and dispose of affect the planet.

  • Paper or Plastic
  • Plastic Trash
  • Fluorescent Lights
  • A Day of Trash: Putting it in Perspective
  • How Recycling Helps Keep Our Community Clean
  • Burning Questions
  • Fuel for Thought
  • Puzzles

    Want to have some fun? Work this puzzle and you'll be amazed at how much you can learn at the same time.

  • What Is In Our Trash DOC PDF
  • Interactives

    Go at your own speed with these activities. The important thing is to do them well.

  • Energy Consumption
  • How to Light Up a Room
  • Mineral Resources - Recycling Aluminum
  • Power Up
  • Future Power
  • Think Green%ae Resources

    Are you ready to learn more about the environment? Here are other sites you may want to visit.

    Downloads
  • Anatomy of a Landfill
  • Anatomy of a Landfill Spanish
  • Bio Reactor Brochure
  • Gas Extraction_Well
  • Gas Probe
  • Groundwater Well
  • Landfill Gas to Energy
  • Leachate Collection System
  • WM Recycling
  • WM Science Managing Waste
  • WM Wastestream
  • Follow the Waste Stream
  • Bioremediation
  • Environmental Review
  • PCB Disposal
  • Recycle America Alliance
  • Transportation Services
  • WasteByRail
  • Waste-to-Energy
  • Resource Links
  • Think Green - Recycling
  • Think Green - Landfill Gas to Energy
  • Think Green - Waste to Energy
  • Think Green - Beneficial Land Reuse
  • Think Green - Case Studies
  • Think Green - Media
  • Think Green - Talking Trash
  • Environmentalists Every Day
  • Websites
  • For Kids
  • EPA's Environmental Kids Club
  • Earth911.org Education
  • EPA's Office of Solid Waste, Planet Protectors Club for Kids
  • The Imagination Factory
  • Where does all the trash go?
  • For Students
  • EPA's Student Center
  • Earth911.org Education
  • The Imagination Factory
  • For Teachers
  • EPA's Teaching Center
  • Earth911.org Education
  • EPA's Office of Solid Waste, Teacher Resources and Tools
  • For Researchers
  • EPA's Researchers and Scientist Center
  • Additional Recycling Sites
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
  • National Recycling Coalition
  • SWANA
  • Plasticsresource.com
  • Plastics.org
  • National Parks and Conservation Association
  • National PET Plastic Association (NAPCOR)
  • Earth911.org
  • for local environmental information, such as:
  • Recycling Services
  • Composting
  • Used Oil Recycling
  • Sony electronics products recycling
  • Books
  • Let's Talk Trash - The Kids' Book About Recycling
  • Other Titles of Interest
  • Earth-Friendly Toys - How to Make Fabulous Toys & Games from Reusable Objects
  • Fifty Simple Things Kids Can Do to Recycle
  • Follow That Trash - All About Recycling
  • Garbage & Recycling
  • Gifts to Make for Your Favorite Grownup
  • Here Comes the Recycling Truck
  • Learn to Recycle
  • Recyclables Fun - Creative Craft Ideas
  • Recycle That!
  • Where Does Garbage Go?
  • Where Does All the Garbage Go!