Recycling Education for Your Classroom

Nature’s Way with Waste

· Lessons address the ability to make choices.

· Lessons focus on natural resources and man-made items, trash and litter.

Trash Cycle in the School

· Lessons address the accountability for actions and classifying objects.

· Lessons focus on trash in the schools along with the awareness that recycling is an alternative to disposal.

Trash Cycle in the Community

· Lessons address self-direction in the community.

· Lessons focus on recycling in the community and the awareness of the amount of trash and garbage that is thrown away.

Recycle Lifecycle

· Lessons address how people make the community a better place to live by preserving the environment.

· Lessons focus on the 3 R’s: reduce, reuse and recycle.

Composting

· Lessons address the characteristics of simple physical and chemical changes.

· Lessons focus on decomposition and making composting piles.

Techno-Fill

· Lessons address the positive and negative impacts of human activity on the environment. 

· Lessons focus on waste alternative methods and the structure, design and purpose of a landfill.

For more information please email Troy Cooper at cooper.351@osu.edu or Andrea Daubenmier at daubenmier.7@osu.edu .  You may also call the Extension office at 740-397-0401.