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The Enviroroom is located in the Merrillville Municipal Complex at 7820 Broadway in Merrillville, IN. The Enviroroom is a unique classroom modeled after a wetlands environment that offers fun and free hands-on educational adventures for all ages. The classroom can accommodate groups up to thirty at a time during programming. The programs offered at the Enviroroom can be adapted to fit any timeframe between one and four hours. For a program that will align with your current curriculum or educational objectives, please contact the educator directly for further details. In addition to classroom programming, the Enviroroom also has Distance Learning/Virtual Field Trip capabilities for sites with IP or AVS broadcast services. Requests can be submitted either by mail to 7820 Broadway, Merrillville, IN 46410 OR fax (219) 769-3890. For additional information, questions or concerns contact the environmental educator at (219) 769-3820 or via email lgonzalez@lcswmd.com. The Programs available are for Lake County, Indiana teachers, students, churches, clubs and organizations. Planet Protectors Goal: Learn the basic rules of recycling and understand the importance of recycling for your future and the planet. Description: By solving puzzles and riddles, students will learn about the Earth’s natural resources and why we need to protect them. Activities also include a recycle relay, recreating the recycling process through role playing and examining unique reused and recycled-content products. RecycleMania Group Size: Maximum of thirty people Goal: Identify Earth’s natural resources and understand the importance of conservation. Learn how to establish waste reduction and prevention methods in your home, at work, and at school. Description: Students challenge their team building skills by participating in a series of games and demonstrations, including a natural resources scavenger hunt, recycle relay, wacky waste audits, and an Enviro-shopping adventure. Squirmy Worms Group Size: Maximum of thirty people Goal: Learn the basic rules of composting, how to build a compost bin, and explore the wonderful world of worms. Description: Students engage in a storytelling adventure of nature's tiny recyclers from garbage to gardens, while learning the fun facts of composting and worms. Using microscopes, students discover what lies beneath the banana peels, egg shells, and apple cores. Students will inch their way to becoming kings and queens of compost! Let It Rot! Group Size: Maximum of thirty people Goal: Understand the importance of waste reduction for a sustainable society. Discover the decomposition process of organic materials and calculate the most effective carbon/nitrogen recipe for your flower and vegetable garden. Description: Students will conduct a microscopic investigation to identify the decomposers living in the compost. Collectively, students will build a compost bin for their classroom and develop carbon/nitrogen formulas for a fertile garden. Paper Recycling Group Size: Maximum of thirty people Goal: Increase awareness of forest products and uses. Understand the process of recycling while learning how to turn your paper scraps into a wonderful work of art. Description: Students will uncover the hidden life of a tree by performing tree-dating analysis. Students will create homemade envelopes and greeting cards to understand the distinction between reuse and recycle. Crayon Recycling Group Size: Maximum of thirty people Goal: Students will list and observe states and properties of matter through a recycling activity that makes new crayons. Description: Instead of throwing out old crayons, students will make them into new ones while demonstrating how interactions of energy and matter affect changes of state. Hazards on the Homefront
Group Size: Maximum of thirty people Goal: Students will learn how to identify and classify common household hazardous waste found in our everyday lives. Explore nontoxic, organic, and eco-friendly products. Description: Using an enviroscape, students will observe the negative effects of improper HHW disposal. Examine a strange substance to learn more about the scientific method of identifying the unknown. Each student will make their own cleaning product by using all natural and safe products from the kitchen. Garbology; Project
Archeology Group Size: Maximum of thirty people Goal: Understand the process of waste disposal with thoughts toward the future. Identify and categorize the components of our waste stream. Sharpen investigating and team building skills. Description: Using scientific inquiry, students examine what has been thrown away and investigate who the culprits are. Activities are based on Project Archeology designed by the US Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management. Homeschool Time Group Size: Maximum of thirty people Goal: Interact with others being home schooled while participating in activities that increase environmental awareness. Description: From September through May, one day each month at 10:30 a.m. is reserved for planned environmental activities. Please contact the Enviroroom educator for registration and listings of yearly activities.
Distance Learning Programs The 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Goal: Students will understand the importance and concept of the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle message. Explore alternative products that are more environmentally friendly. List and identify the components of trash and engage in discussion about waste reduction. Description: Students will learn the importance and concept behind the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle message by participating in games and demonstrations. Games included: Natural Resource Match Game, Recycle Relay, and even a Fashion show of Reused and Recycled garbage demonstrated by the environmental educator. Nature’s Recyclers Goal: Students will understand the importance of waste reduction, learn the basic concepts of composting and how to create their own compost bin and explore earth friendly solutions for our yard and food waste problem. Description:
Through interactive story-telling, students will learn the necessary steps for
composting. Learn about the critters in the compost including worms and how
they help in the decomposition process. Goal: Students will understand the importance of waste reduction; learn the basic concepts of composting and how to create their own compost bin Description: A storytelling adventure of nature's tiny recyclers from garbage to gardens, your students will learn the fun facts of composting and worms. Students will inch their way to becoming Kings and Queens of Compost! The Enviroscape Goal: Students will gain an understanding of watersheds and the effects pollution has on a community. Learn about "eco-friendly" solutions and products. Description: Using a 3x3-floor model, Students create a "real-life" city while discussing and demonstrating sources of pollution. Students will gain an understanding of watersheds, run off, and point/non-point source pollution. Enviroholidays Goal: Students will be able to recognize the waste problems we face during the holiday season, evaluate their own holiday practices that effect our environment, and learn "eco-friendly" solutions for the holidays. Description: Join an environmental educator as she demonstrates ways to celebrate the holidays with the environment in mind. Great gift ideas, gift wrapping alternatives and card recycling are just a few of the tips for a simpler, peaceful holiday. (Christmas, Valentines Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Halloween, etc.) Environmental Careers Goal: Students will explore the exciting and diverse careers within the environmental field, engage in discussion about career options and job requirements, and develop an appreciation and understanding of the environmental field. Description: Students interested in an environmental career have the opportunity to hear from the environmental community. The panel may consist of an Environmental lawyer, Hazardous Waste Director, Paper recycler, Grant writer, Educator with potential for more or less panel members. Participants are available to answer questions about their job descriptions, education requirements, job market, and future potential. Lake County Solid Waste
Issues Goal: To increase environmental awareness in Lake County, Indiana. Description: Solid Waste leaders gather to discuss timely topics: drop off sites, school recycling, hazardous waste, landfills and more. This is a perfect opportunity for your students to learn about their community and ask questions about the future of waste management. Finally a Fantastic, Fun
& Informative In-service Day Goal: Teachers will become familiar with free programming offered to schools, understand the process of scheduling programs through Lake County Solid Waste, and learn where to find additional resources for their classroom curriculum. Description: Looking for a brief introduction to all the FREE programming offered by Lake County Solid Waste Management District? Schedule an overview for your next Teacher In-service Day. Find out what Distance Learning programs will correlate with your classroom activities. Lake County Residents can learn what recycling programs are available for schools; what's new in free fieldtrips at the Enviroroom, Douglas Center, Hammond Center and how to schedule the enviromobiles and much more! |
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