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Sustainability Foundations: Ready to Recycle
- Refining vs. recycling
- Single-stream recycling
- Sustainable choices
Overview
Sustainability Foundations: Ready to Recycle builds on the knowledge and skills that students learned in Sustainability Foundations and helps students develop strategies for becoming better informed consumers when it comes to recycling. Students will learn about single-stream recycling, the environmental impacts of mining and refining raw materials to be used in consumer goods, and how to make sustainable choices.
Ready to Recycle is available for all U.S. and Canadian Schools at no cost.
At-A-Glance
Grade Level
5-8Length
3 lessons, 15 minutes each
Languages
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core Math and ELA State Standards, CASEL Competencies, National Social Studies Standards
Curriculum Fit
Science, Social Studies, Advisory
In this lesson, students will be able to describe categories of recyclable materials and their life cycles.
In this lesson, students will be able to differentiate between the energy uses and environmental impacts of obtaining new resources (mining, harvesting, etc) vs. recycling.
In this lesson, students will be able to make choices that reduce environmental impact and energy use.
In this lesson, students will be able to describe categories of recyclable materials and their life cycles.
In this lesson, students will be able to differentiate between the energy uses and environmental impacts of obtaining new resources (mining, harvesting, etc) vs. recycling.
In this lesson, students will be able to make choices that reduce environmental impact and energy use.
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