Are you looking for resources to help teach recycling and environmental responsibility to your students? Help us build this page by suggesting ideas, online resources, and programs you know of in our area.

Teaching Aids

Check out the Story of Stuff Project. With over 12 million on-line views, The Story of Stuff is one of the most widely viewed environmental-themed short films of all time. Since its release in December 2007, The Story of Stuff has been shown in thousands of schools, houses of worship, community events and businesses around the world.

The Mojave Environmental Education Consortium (MEEC) aims to improve the environmental literacy of students, teachers, and communities of the Mojave Desert Region by actively providing educational resources including transportation and mini-grants, and environmental library, curriculum and scholarship information, a speakers bureau, and teacher links focused on the High Desert environment.

California Environmental Protection Agency's Education and the Environmental Initiative (EEI) This K-12th grade curriculum is comprised of 85 units teaching select Science and History-Social Science academic standards. Each EEI Curriculum unit teaches these standards to mastery using a unique set of California Environmental Principles and Concepts

Closing the Loop is CalRecycle's interdisciplinary standardized K-6 curriculum emphasizing waste prevention, recycling, composting, and vermicomposting through hands-on activities.

Facing the Future provides Buy, Use, Toss? a free two-week curriculum that includes ten, fully planned lessons aligned with national science and social studies standards.

CalRecycle also maintains an instructional materials page, a comprehensive list of online K-12 education publications and more educational resources and information

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency lists environmental education resources that can be ordered online, by telephone, or downloaded.

US EPA's waste education materials includes basic facts, materials and information about  composting and recycling, curriculum, activities, awards, and grants.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) and Scholastic recently unveiled an updated version of their Recycling Starts with You! educational program. The poster features standards-based math, science, and language arts lessons about paper recycling for grades 3-6.

Visit http://www.paperrecycles.org to view and/or download classroom resources including

• A poster to display above your recycling area or in the classroom
• Lessons
• Information on the AF&PA Recycling Awards, which can earn your school money and recognition
• Videos depicting the papermaking process in the classroom and the mill