Lesson Plans
We’ve designed a comprehensive waste and recycling curriculum for elementary, middle, and high school students. The curriculum includes interactive activities that are engaging and easy for teachers to add to their existing lesson plans.
Knowing Where Garbage Goes After It’s Thrown Away
The Life Cycle of Products
Recycling in the Classroom
Where Does School Trash Go?
How to Reduce Waste
Waste Equity
Linear Economy vs. Circular Economy
Does Recycling Solve Our Waste Problem
Breaking Down Composting
Beginning to Understand that Nature Recycles
Lesson Highlights
“In the ‘Does Recycling Solve our Waste Problem?’ lesson, my students enjoyed coming up with ideas for reducing and reusing everyday items we use in our daily lives. They completed reuse projects based on their ideas and created some art pieces and some functional pieces to reuse everyday items.” - PS/MS 57 James Weldon Johnson, Grade 8, East Harlem
“My students were able to make connections between trash and their lives living in the South Bronx. Most of my students reside in the Melrose neighborhood of the South Bronx which is notorious for its dirty streets. Students recounted how they see piles of trash on the streets when they leave school and how sad they are that many of their neighbors don't know the benefits of recycling. So my students made it a personal mission of theirs to educate their friends and families about the importance of proper waste management.” - Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School, Grade 9, South Bronx
