Make it a Green School Year
It’s a new school year and we know you’re eager to start it off right. Waste Management and Discovery Education have just what you need to introduce your students to the 4 R’s of environmental education.
Visit discoveryeducation.com/thinkgreen for a comprehensive set of free K-12 lessons, videos, and interactive tools that will reverse the way you think about waste. Highlights include:
K-5: Teachers and students virtually sort through materials that would otherwise go to waste to discover different properties of various recyclable materials.
6-8: Students begin to think about their own strategies for curbing the problem of too much waste.
9-12: Students explore the process of recovering energy from waste.
New downloadable recycling fact sheets for your classroom. The statistics might surprise you.
Join Us on a Virtual Field Trip
Explore how everyday waste can power 650,000 homes, and save 7 million barrels of oil per year. Show your students how waste is processed and converted into energy with a virtual field trip to a Waste Management waste-to-energy facility. Visit discoveryeducation.com/thinkgreen now to begin. Plus, share your feedback on the site and receive 20% off products in the Discovery Education Teacher’s Store.