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Literature Links for Primary
Recycle Every Day!
- Recycle Every Day!*
written by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
- This simple story conveys a big message about reusing and recycling. Ideas are shared through Minna, a participant in a poster contest for her school’s recycling calendar, as she and her family try out different ways to recycle and reuse. Searching for the different recycled materials used in the illustration is one of the included activities.
Activity Idea:
- Have students bring items from home they are no longer. Students can sort and graph the items into three categories (reuse, recycle, and reduce) using an application such as MS Excel™ or The Graph Club™. Follow up with discussion of ways the items can be reused or recycled and the best way to get rid of others.
- Select items that students brought to class. Have students write a paragraph and illustrate, either with paper and pencil or with a computer drawing program, a way it can be reused.
* Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, 2006
- Additional Books
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- Why Should I Recycle? by Jen Green (Barron's Educational Series, 2005)
- The Three R's: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle (What Do You Know About? Books) by Nuria Roca (Barron's Educational Series, 2007) – Older reading level, good resource
- Garbage and Recycling (Young Discoverers: Environmental Facts and Experiments) by Rosie Harlow (Kingfisher, 2002)
- The Magic School Bus Gets Recycled by Anne Capeci (Scholastic, Inc., 2007)
- Recycle: A Handbook for Kids by Gail Gibbons (Little Brown & Co, 1992) --older reading level, good resource
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