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Grade 2 - Sharing the planet
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Central Idea:
Our personal choices can change our environment.
An Inquiry Into:
- Nature’s recycling process (decomposition)
- How different materials can be reused
- The steps we can take to reduce our waste in school and at home
- Waste materials can be recycled into something useful

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Keeping Your Community Clean
Keeping your community clean is very important! In this program, youngsters will see how sanitation workers help a community by collecting and disposing of garbage . They will also see how recycling workers use special trucks to pick up materials that can be recycled.
More.(4 min) More is a little video with a big message. In an entertaining yet thoughtful way, it shows how our desire for "More" is destroying the Earth's resources. With the single word -- More -- and a series of animated images, the program provides a gentle warning .
Reduce, reuse, recycle: How can we all help take care our environment.
Learning About Natural Resources
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle are meaningless words to students who do not have a clear understanding of the importance of natural resources. In this engaging production students first learn about the three types of natural resources: inexhaustible, renewable, and nonrenewable. Next, identify the earth's wide variety of natural resources—air, water, oil, coal, gas, forests/trees, soil, rocks, plants, and minerals. Last, see how we use each of these natural resources in every day life.
Taking Care of Our Earth
Students learn to care about their environment with the help of four animated characters as they take a tour of a landfill. Natural resources are identified and shown as students learn how important it is to conserve them. They also discover how reducing, reusing, and recycling benefit our environment, and how air and water pollution can hurt it.
Stage One Science: Dying and Decay
Children visit the park to investigate the process of decay over a short time span. They also engage in simple experiments to find out which objects will decompose naturally and which will not. Many waste products are shown being recycled effectively.
Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling: Environmental Concerns
Solid waste is almost anything a person throws away, including trash and garbage. This program will focus on the problems created by solid waste and offer ways to help alleviate these problems. Students will be made aware of the fact that natural resources are often the base for products that become solid waste and that many such resources are non-renewable, such as the aluminum in a soda can. Even renewable resources, such as trees that are cut down to make paper, are being depleted at a faster rate than we can renew them. Pollution problems like toxic substances get into the surrounding soil when garbage is disposed of in dumps. Landfill sites are filling up and new sites are difficult to find. Improper disposal of waste affects our land, water and air. It is past time to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
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