A list of "green" days: a compilation of local, national and international celebration days that can be used as themes to enhance environmental stewardship in your classroom. Calendar of Green.
Have you thought about setting up a full recycling system - for paper as well as for containers? Have you noticed the amount of food waste thrown out that could have been composted instead? These manuals present simple step-by-step ideas for successfully starting and maintaining recycling and composting systems in your school. Local information and resoruces are provided to make the manuals as directly applicable as possible. Green School Manuals.
This recycled craft can be a great way to reuse old or scratched cd's or dvd's. It can also be a great reminder of the need to protect our water, not only for ourselves but also for our fish. Recycled CD Fish.
Celebrate a "green" Christmas in your classroom by creating these ornaments from re-used and natural items. Download the instruction booklet (pdf).
A child produces about 70 pounds of garbage each year from lunches. Use these resources to demonstrate the waste created by lunches and encourage your students to pack a litterless lunch. Litterless Lunch.
Having your students bring their lunch garbage home with them is a great way to help them realize the amount of waste that one meal is creating. We have several implementation ideas for download. Boomerang Lunch.
Sharing unwanted items with others is an easy way to keep things out of the landfill. Chances are somebody will have something that you are looking for too. Organize a swap in your classroom or school, to encourage the reuse of items. Let's Have A Swap!
Students will stretch their creativity in designing items from reused materials. Have them presented to the rest of the class or even school in a fair type event. Let's get students excited about reusing! Read up on some of our implementation ideas. Reuse Class Fair.
A variety of activities that can be used in the classroom or education groups to teach about waste reduction. Check out our complete listing of activities (pdf).
This local organization has created an activity booklet (pdf) for young learners to help make Thunder Bay Litter Free!
We have a great document (pdf) on environmental hot topics to get the discussion going in your highschool classroom.