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| IDEM Lesson Plan: Recycling Page 4 of 24 Lesson Activities A. Introduction Recycling is one of the best ways for citizens to make a direct impact on the environment. It helps the environment in a number of ways. First of all, recycling reduces energy use. For example, recycling aluminum uses 95% less energy than producing it from raw sources. Recycling also conserves the natural resources on Earth like plants, animals, minerals, fresh air and fresh water. Recycling saves space in the landfills for future generations of people. If we use up all the space in landfills by not recycling today, ... | |
| IDEM Lesson Plan: Recycling Page 8 of 24 Taking it Further IDEM's presentations are designed to suit both the environmental scientist with no experience in the classroom and the experienced educator who wants to give his or her students a fresh learning experience. However, there are a few things that the trained teacher can offer that are not possible to replicate in a short presentation. This section provides that teacher with additional activities that can be used in place of or in addition to the ones in the lesson. Additional Activity #1 2 Cookie Mining Purpose: To introduce the ... | |
| IDEM Lesson Plan: Recycling Page 16 of 24 Additional Activity #5 How'd they do that? Purpose: To teach students from what raw materials items are made Materials: Bag of assorted recyclable materials. Instructions: K-4: Dump an assortment of recyclables into a big pile and have students come up to sort the pile into metals, plastics, paper, and glass. Next, discuss with them where these products came from and how they are made (see information on different products below). 5-8: Divide the students into 5 groups.. Give one item to each of the five groups: a newspaper, an aluminum can, a ... | |
| IDEM Lesson Plan: Recycling Page 19 of 24 Sixth Grade The Scientific Enterprise 6.1.4 Give examples of employers who hire scientists, such as colleges and universities, businesses and industries, hospitals, and many government agencies. 6.1.5 Identify places where scientists work, including offices, classrooms, laboratories, farms, factories, and natural field settings from space to the ocean floor. The Earth and the Processes that Shape It 6.3.14 Give examples of some minerals that are very rare and some that exist in great quantities. Explain how recycling and the development of substitutes ... | |
