In this lesson, students learn about the value of renewable resources. Using multimedia intractives, video, and classroom activities, they learn to identify examples of renewable resources and how humans use them, understand what recycling and conservation are, learn about composting, and identify food waste and household items that can be recycled or composted. Full description.

This resource provides some reference material about composting, and some questions for discussion. A multimedia interactive feature explains what composting is and the roles that soil microbes, oxygen, and moisture play in this process. There is also a game that challenges users to start and maintain their own virtual compost pile. Full description.

This information will help students to identify biodegradable products, to build and maintain a compost pile in their own backyard, reduce the amount of trash they send to a landfill, and to create a useful product. Students will discover that by reducing the amount of material sent to the landfill, they can help to protect the groundwater supplies. The site has step by step instruction on how to ... Full description.

Recycling is perhaps the most well-known and successful part of the popular three-pronged resource conservation strategy known as 'reduce, reuse, and recycle'. This site provides some general information about recycling, and a video segment from the television program 'ZOOM', in which a cast member visits a material recovery center to watch the recycling process unfold. Full description.

This site is a slide show that explains how to build a compost pile and why compost piles are important. Most of the slides use photographs and illustrations to describe each step of the process. The author includes examples of specific materials to use and explains why each of these materials are important. The entire presentation is focused on encouraging and instructing children to build compost ... Full description.

The Quest for Less provides resources about solid waste for teachers, including hands-on lessons and activities, enrichment ideas, journal writing assignments, and other educational tools related to preventing and reducing trash. These resources introduce the idea of natural resources as a source for many products that become solid waste; explain the life cycle of products and the quantity and type ... Full description.

This site offers activities for direct student interaction, for educators to use in the classroom and for experimentation at home. Student and educator activities focus on basic issues of groundwater, the water cycle, global water distribution, conservation and vocabulary. At home activities touch on aquifers, biodegradability and compost. Additional games, teaching tools and information on events ... Full description.

Activities on this page include a nature scavenger hunt, learning about local trees, exploring water properties by creating a mini-water cycle, investigating the living organisms in soil, studying the wind, exploring the food chain, observing water consumption, recycling paper, making compost, and working on policy by spreading the Woodsy Owl environmental message. There are also contacts for teacher ... Full description.

This site shows kids how they can protect the environment. The Earth is treated like a giant spaceship and cartoon characters are used to explain how nature recycles air, land and water. The characters use Earthship Logs to give tips about littering, oil and water pollution, tire disposal, bicycling to reduce air pollution, leaf burning and composting. The activities include quizzes, instructions ... Full description.

Earth 911 is an organization focused on empowering the public with community-specific resources to improve their quality of life. To accomplish this goal, they provide information on a wide range of environmental topics including recycling (several types of materials), household hazardous waste, water quality, composting, air pollution prevention, fire prevention, green shopping tips, and mercury ... Full description.