How Do I
BLAST Elementary Thematic Program
Recycling
(March and April 2010)
It Isn't Easy Being Green
Recommended for grades K-2
What does it really mean to “Go Green?” In this environmentally friendly program, students will learn about recycling, as well as reducing consumption and reusing everyday materials. Get ready to save the planet through stories, informational texts, and a hands-on activity.
Fiction and Informational Books:
Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth
Recycle Every Day!
When Minna has a school assignment to make a poster about recycling, her entire rabbit family spends the week practicing various kinds of recycling and suggesting ideas for her poster.
Walsh, Melanie
10 Things I Can Do to Help My World
A reminder of the easy, everyday ways we can be kinder to the Earth
Maass, Robert
Garbage
An introduction to the problems of waste management and the various ways we dispose of garbage
Galko, Francine
Earth Friends at Home
Discusses the importance of reducing waste, recycling, and reusing products in the context of life at home
Return to the topRecycled Art
Recommended for grades 3-5
What do you do when there’s too much trash? Students will learn about a different side of recycling and environmentally friendly practices in this interactive program about artists who use recycled materials as their medium. Stories and informational texts will be explored, followed up with a hands-on activity.
Fiction and Informational Books:
Winter, Jonah & Red Nose Studio
Here Comes the Garbage Barge
In the spring of 1987, the town of Islip, New York, with no place for its 3,168 tons of garbage, loads it on a barge that sets out on a 162-day journey along the East Coast, around the Gulf of Mexico, down to Belize, and back again, in search of a place willing to accept and dispose of its very smelly cargo.
Albert, Michael
An Artist's America
Reproductions of collages form the basis of Albert's introduction to his own artistic journey and of his passion for promoting the use of recycled materials in art.
Slaymaker, Melissa Eskridge & Paschkis, Julie
Bottle Houses: The Creative Wold of Grandma Prisbrey
An introduction to the world of folk artist Grandma Prisbrey
Bull, Jane
Make It!
Presents a variety of projects making use of paper, plastic, metal, or fabric trash.
