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Check Out EPA's Waste Education Resources Materials for both teachers and students including curriculum, activities, and more.

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Curriculum

  • Recycling & Solid Waste Education Kit
    SPO has created 12 Recycling and Solid Waste Education Kits for loan to educators across the state. These kits contain support materials to help educators conduct a unit on solid waste and recycling. The kits are available in 6 different locations, including: Caribou, Ellsworth, Fairfield, Augusta, Auburn, and Portland. Contact Us for more information

  • Project Learning Tree
    An award winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in PreK through grade 12.

  • The Quest for Less
    Curriculum and activities produced by the EPA, includes numerous resources for teachers from k-12 and a teachers center for additional in depth information.

  • Waste In Place
    A supplement curriculum produced by Keep America Beautiful.

  • A-Way with Waste
    An in depth curriculum for grades k-12 by Washington State.

  • Recycling
    An in depth curriculum/lesson plans split up into different grades including kindergarten to 5th grade. Written by the Montgomery County Public Schools.

  • Affluenza
    A video clip lead education series for grades 5 - high school designed by PBS on Affluenza, educating people about the dangers of materialism, over-consumption and constant shopping.

 

Online Games

Learn about several online educational games for students
 

Coloring and Activity Books to Print or Purchase
Nature's Recyclers

Coloring book of nature’s recyclers (cartoon mushrooms, microbes, etc.) and why recycling is important. Download it for free.

Keep Your Neighborhood Clean

Download a free coloring book with whimsical drawings to ‘keep your neighborhood clean’ with pages on recycling, not littering, conserving water, etc.
On the Street again, recycling tour

Activity book featuring the Reusers with activities and coloring pages on the 3 Rs, buying recycled products, and litter prevention.

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