ReMA Recycling Collection | Grades K-12
Grades K-4
Watch this video to learn about how the recycled materials industry provides critical raw material necessary for the everyday items and essential infrastructure we all depend on.
Activities
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Begin with recycling, continue with creativity, and end with a celebration!
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The average American uses more than 300 plastic bags every year. This activity challenges you to monitor your plastic bag usage, and explore where plastic bags come from and the energy it takes to make them. Finally, you create your own messaging to encourage your communities to re-use and recycle plastic bags in an environmentally friendly way.
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The properties of a material make it just right for some purposes. In this activity, you will explore the special properties of latex rubber and discover how this valuable material can be used and re-used.
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Sometimes you have to take things apart to understand how they work. In this activity, students will take apart electronics to understand why they are hard to recycle.
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In this activity, you will learn about types of batteries, safe battery storage, and safe battery disposal.
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Learn about "Going Green" using the 4Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Restore) with items at home, consider what you can do to help the Earth, and create a work of art using recyclable materials.
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Do you recycle? Did you know nature does, too? In this activity, we will compare how nature recycles with how we recycle.
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In this activity, you will choose an item that is commonly used in your home or classroom and rethink its design to increase its recyclability.
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The properties of a material make them just right for some purposes. In this activity, you explore some properties of metals and the challenges of recycling materials that are made from more than one material.
Readings
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It's not quite as quick as flipping a top, but aluminum is one of the easiest materials to recycle.
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Do you have a magnetic personality? Your car does, too. More than 2/3 of the mass of most cars is made of iron and steel - metals that are magnetic.
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If you are reading this in school, chances are you are looking at either a screen or a sheet of paper. Did you know that before many classrooms used digital tools, the average student used more than 300 pounds of paper a year?
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Every machine has moving parts that move against one another. This friction creates heat, wastes energy, and can cause damage. Lubricants reduce the friction when a machine runs, lowering the temperature and helping protect the parts.
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Look in your refrigerator and pantry. How many products come in glass bottles or jars? Because foods don't dissolve glass, it's a great storage material. It also lasts for a long time.
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Here's a quick trivia question: What part of your car might eventually become jewelry? Read on to learn the answer.
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Picture the attributes of a rubber band or a rubber ball. Did you think stretchy or bouncy? Did you know that the natural version of rubber is called latex? Latex is used in tires that grip the road, and it's what gives elastic that snap.
ChampionsofRecycling
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Meet Brandi Harleaux and learn about the work she does and her career pathway.
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Meet Jennifer Betts and learn about the work she does and her career pathway.
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Meet Barry Wolff and learn about the work he does and his career pathway.
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Meet Nidhi Turakia and learn about the work she does and her career pathway.
Games
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The recycling process is depicted on the ScrapMap™ as a large circle. Each of the circles on this page shows how we can take something old and create a new and useful product. In the United States in 2011, more than 134 million metric tons of scrap metal, paper, plastic, glass, textiles, rubber, and electronics – valued at $100 billion – were manufactured into new products.
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In Scrap Titans, you are an entrepreneur competing to form the most profitable recycled materials business.
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