Big Picture

Mini-Lesson

Fight Pollution: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

  1. What kinds of pollution do you see where you live?

  2. Encourage students to think about ways that they can save the earth by completing the worksheet, Helping Earth.

  3. Give students practice reading a graph with the Recycling Count worksheet.

  4. Use the worksheet, Make Less Trash for ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.

THINK: How would the world be different if there was no pollution?

EXTENSION: What would you say to people to convince them not to pollute? How would you convince people to reuse, reduce and recycle?
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