ENVIROMOBILE
All programs align with one or more of the following Indiana Academic Standards:
SCIENCE: K.ESS.4, 1.ESS.4, 4.ESS.4, 5.ESS.3
SOCIAL S K.3.7, K.4.2, 1.3.9, 1.4.2, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 3.3.12, 3.3.13, 3.4.1, 3.4.2
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ACTIVITES
Choose from 9 hands-on inquiry-based activities. Using teamwork, games and experience, students are challenged to recognize their role in building an environmentally responsible society. One program per year can be scheduled for your class or grade level. Please reserve a science lab for your presentations if available. All programming is offered at NO COST to your school or organization!
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Litter Prevention
Grade Level: K
Program Length: 30 minutes
Students will listen and respond to books read aloud on litter and other environmental issues. They will recognize that littering is a choice and has environmental and legal consequences.
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What Am I Made of?
Grade Level: 1-3
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Students will learn which natural resources are used to make our everyday materials. Students will recognize that recyclable materials can be made into new items and save money and resources by doing so.
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Scavenger Hunt
Grade Level: 1-3
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Students will go on a classroom recycling scavenger hunt that is designed to help students identify the variety of resources that can be recovered through recycling.
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Resource vs. Waste Sorting Game
Grade Levels: 1-3
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Students will determine which common household items should end up in a landfill as waste and which are actually resources that should be recovered by reusing or recycling.
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PROFESSOR PLASTIC AND THE 3D bar Graph
Grade Level: 2-5
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Students will identify 7 types of plastics and sort items by creating a 3D classroom bar graph. Students will discuss differences and similarities in the plastic types using the bar graph as a visual aid and relate this information to household recycling.
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Rethink, Reinvent, and Reimagine
Grade Levels: 3-5
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Students will discover ways to reuse objects that we generally throw into the landfill. They will showcase their creativity on posters.
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the apple falls far from the tree
Grade Levels: 3-6
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Students will learn how, where, and why food is wasted from producer to consumer and learn how to reduce food waste.
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Garbage Pizza
Grade Level: 3-6
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Students will identify common components of a Municipal Solid Waste Stream. Students will predict proportions/percentages for each component of the United States’ MSW stream.
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Build a Landfill
Grade Levels: 4-5
Program Length: 45-60 minutes
Students will conduct an experiment to assess the effectiveness of landfill construction methods on preventing leachate production. They will simulate a landfill in plastic bottles, set up a controlled experiment to test 3 different lining materials, and measure the production of leachate over time.
(School year only)
(June, July, and August only)