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  A System Redesign

  A System Redesign is one lesson from "Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things We Buy". In this lesson, students recall the hidden impacts associated with various components of the materials economy (the system of...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Business and Economics, Recycling and Waste Management, Solutions
  Subject:Science, Economics, Social Studies, Global Studies, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Action Tips: Eco-Education

  This link provides students with basic ideas and facts on how to make their schools 'green'. It even helps students develop and submit an action plan to help lower energy uses and waste within their school!

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Energy Use and Conservation, Recycling and Waste Management, Solutions
  Subject:Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Action Tips: Encourage Friends and Familly to Recycle Efficently

  This link gives students ways in which they can help teach their families and friends to recycle more effectively. It provides a number of tips which students are to share with their families and friends to reduce waste in their...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Recycling and Waste Management, Solutions
  Subject:Geography, Health & Wellbeing, Social Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle, Secondary
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Analyzing the Message

  Analzying the Message is one Lesson 10 from "Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things we Buy". In this lesson, students critically analyze The Story of Stuff by identifying the overall message of the film, persuasive...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Recycling and Waste Management, Sustainable Development
  Subject:English / Language Arts, Social Studies, Global Studies, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Building a Vermicomposter

  This project will have you and your action team becoming master builders of a novel, garbage-guzzling machine that eats, breathes, and wriggles – a vermicomposter! You will build a vermicomposter that uses red wiggler worms to...

  Type:Lesson Plan
  Topic:Recycling and Waste Management, Taking Action
  Subject:Science, Social Studies
  Level:Primary / Elementary, Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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  Burning in the Streets

  This 7-minute piece looks at a group of students from Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School who worked with Solar One’s Chris Neidl to make small-scale solar projects like lanterns and mobile charging units....

  Type:Video
  Topic:Recycling and Waste Management, Science and Technology, Taking Action
  Subject:Science, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Carbon Footprint and Climate Change

  This video promotes recycling by showing the timely decomposition of a pop can.

  Type:Video
  Topic:Recycling and Waste Management
  Subject:Science, Geography, Social Studies, Environmental Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle
  Grade: 4 5 6 7 8 9
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  Climate Change is Real

  An animated video that highlights effects that human activity has on climate change. Common activities that emit carbon dioxide are highlighted through images. Solutions are proposed to combat our negative effect on our climate systems.

  Type:Video
  Topic:Air, Atmosphere and Climate, Recycling and Waste Management, Taking Action
  Subject:Science, Geography, Social Studies
  Level:Intermediate / Middle
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  Coal and Sustainability

  The final module in a series created by Canadian Coal Association on coal education. This module discusses economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, innovation, efficiency, stewardship, climate change, emission...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Energy Generation, Recycling and Waste Management, Science and Technology
  Subject:Science, Geography, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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  Coal and the Environment

  The forth module of a 5 module series created by the Canadian Coal Association on coal education. This module discusses clean coal production, land reclamation, waste reduction, wildlife protection, noise reduction, productivity...

  Type:Research
  Topic:Energy Generation, Recycling and Waste Management, Science and Technology
  Subject:Science, Geography, Environmental Science
  Level:Secondary
  Grade: 9 10 11 12
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