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Curricula and Lesson Plans
In addition to the lesson plans found at this website, below are other waste-related and global citizenry lesson plans and curriculum materials.

California Integrated Waste Management Board Closing the Loop curricula
This curriculum is designed to introduce K-3 and 4-6 grade students to waste issues, including household hazardous waste.

Clean Sweep USA
Keep America Beautiful's website includes lessons and ideas for web-based research.

Community Action Guide
This 37-page guide contains resources to help you and your classroom take on a group action project. The same guide is published in the World Wildlife Fund and Center for a New American Dream resource book, Smart Consumers : An Educator's Guide to Exploring Consumer Issues and the Environment.

Defining Service--A Reflection Activity
Students explore on their own and with peers the various definitions of service and the value of many types of service. Environmental service projects are the focus, with special attention given to service-learning projects aimed at household hazardous materials.

Earth Day Groceries Project
This site provides instructions for decorating bags for earth day.

Environmental Protection Agency Municipal Solid Waste
This web site contains information on municipal solid waste (MSW), including facts, information about reducing, reusing and recycling, and state data about MSW. Click here for a list of curriculum materials available from the EPA.

I Buy Different
This website designed for youth to help them understand their purchasing power and what they can do to reduce environmental impact. The site was developed as a partnership between the World Wildlife Fund and the Center for a New American Dream. Click here for curriculum information. Click here for curriculum information.

Iowa Waste Reduction Center
The IWRC assists small businesses with information concerning environmental regulations, waste reduction and pollution prevention. Their website includes games about pollution prevention and small business. Students become owners of a dry cleaning operation, an auto repair shop or a printing operation, make decisions as the owners, and then reap the benefits and suffer the consequences of those decisions. Great for business classes, and also applicable to environmental science.

Learning to Give
Many lesson plans are available at this site. None relate directly to environmental service projects, but they can be adapted for this use. A sampling of lessons include: History of philanthropy lessons, a lesson to help students decide what type(s) of service learning to engage in, and a concluding lesson where students reflect on the service learning project . Great service learning education site.

Oxfam America
This is a non-profit organization that works to end global poverty. A variety of educational resources are downloadable at their site, including instructions on hosting a Hunger Banquet. Guests at the banquet draw tickets that randomly put them in a low-, middle- or high-income tier, and are correspondingly fed a meal. High-income--the smallest percentage of the world's population--are served a gourmet meal. Others are served rice and beans. The low-income group--the largest group--help themselves to rice and water.

Population Connection
For nearly forty years, Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth) has been educating young people with its award-winning Population Education program and advocating for progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources.

Heifer International
Heifer International, a non-profit organization, works to end world hunger and protect the earth through the gift of farm animals and training. Their site offers educators a variety of educational resources, including books, videos and curricula. The materials address poverty and environmental degradation, cultures around the world, and global citizenry.

Redefining Progress
This website has a wealth of information about sustainability, as well as lesson plans for K-12, including Global Footprint lesson plans and resources. Materials and Initiatives for Sustainability Education, offers an extensive chart of resources available throughout the country.

Sierra Club Sustainable Consumption Educator Resources
At this site, you'll find numerous ideas and lesson plans to help you teach about sustainable consumption, sustainable communities, local foods, and other environmental issues.

Sightline Institute--Stuff Curriculum
This is a curriculum to accompany the book, Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things.

Click here for lesson plans found on this website.

Website mission: Provide formal and nonformal educators with resources, lessons plans, and a forum for information exchange to facilitate education about waste in K-12 classrooms. Webmaster: Susan Salterberg, Center for Energy and Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0293; salterberg@uni.edu Last Updated: January 5, 2005; Copyright 2005 University of Northern Iowa. All Rights Reserved. http://www.uni.edu/ceee/wastereduction

Thanks to the Iowa Waste Reduction Center at the University of Northern Iowa and especially to their director, John Konefes, and to their webmaster, Jason Ebensberger, for assistance with this website. This website was prepared with the support of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Contract Number 04-G550-24. However, any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of IDNR. Funding support was also provided by the Resource Enhancement and Protection Conservation Education Program (REAP CEP): Invest in Iowa , our outdoors, our heritage, our people. REAP is supported by the state of Iowa, providing funding to public and private partners for natural and cultural resource projects, including water quality, wildlife habitat, soil conservation, parks, trails, historic preservation and more.