Guiding+Resources

=Guiding Resources =
 * 1) **EPA Environmental Kids Club - Garbage & Recycling**
 * This website from the Environmental Protection Agency contains information on reusing, recycling, and reducing garbage.
 * @http://www.epa.gov/kids/garbage.htm
 * 1) **Environmental Education for Kids - Recycling & Beyond**
 * Recycling and Beyond explains why we should recycle and what recycling means.
 * @http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/recycle/index.htm
 * 1) **Earth 911**
 * Provides information on local recycling centers, how to recycle, pollution prevention, and how help protect the environment.
 * @http://earth911.com/
 * 1) **Discovery Education - The Green Earth Club: Pulp and Paper**
 * Video that shows the relationship between pulp and paper and the consequences of cutting down trees. It also offers suggestions for reducing paper use.
 * @http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=A8AD1759-F97B-4FB5-B461-4BA49B7F1E9A&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 * 1) **National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle**
 * This site provides information on waste and ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste.
 * @http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/recycle.htm
 * 1) **Recycle Zone**
 * Information about the about the 3Rs - reduce, reuse, recycle.
 * @http://www.recyclezone.org.uk/
 * 1) **The Greens - A site for kids about looking after the planet**
 * Learn about the Greens family and ways you can help save the planet.
 * @http://www.meetthegreens.org/
 * 1) **The Imagination Fa​ctory**
 * Information about landfills and creative ways to recycle by making art.
 * @http://kid-at-art.com/
 * 1) **Discovery Education - Get Activated: School Projects to Help the Environment - School Trash Audit**
 * This video from Discovery Education instructs students on how to perform a school trash audit. This audit will analyze how environmentally friendly their school is. Students document ways their school reuses and uses their resources.
 * @http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=D62A4761-8716-45BB-A127-9C0F968A4C12&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 * 1) **Discovery Education - Real World Science: Trash and the Environment**
 * Discovery Education video that explains what happens to waste and trash. Decomposed and raw materials are recycled naturally but much of human trash doesn’t decompose for a very long time. They follow an average person and estimates how much trash they throw away in a day.
 * @http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=77B98334-881C-4593-B352-E15D3645E6DC&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
 * 1) **Real World Science: Trash and the Environment Quiz**
 * Accompanying material for the video “Real World Science: Trash and the Environment.
 * @http://tools.discoveryeducation.com/quiz/viewQuiz.cfm?guidAssetId=f74cf2a0-37c6-4f6a-9c93-0ab8ab6ce5d9&strEditCopy=Copy
 * 1) **Waste-Free Lunches**
 * Information for starting and/or participating in a waste-free lunch program for your school.
 * @http://www.wastefreelunches.org/
 * 1) **Waste-Free Lunch Letter**
 * Template of a letter home to parents with date and tips for a waste-free lunch.
 * @http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/education/pdfs/wflwrite.pdf
 * 1) **Creating Less Trash at School**
 * Tips for packing a no-waste lunch.
 * @http://156.98.19.245/school/index.html
 * 1) **Think Green - Discovery Education & Waste Management**
 * Explore the 4 R's of environmental education - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover with Discovery Education and Waste Management.
 * @http://thinkgreen.discoveryeducation.com/
 * 1) **Earth Buddies**
 * Includes links to EPA site and examples of posters and letters advertising event.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00442/wastefreelunch.htm
 * 1) **Survey​monkey.com**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Site that allows users to create online surveys and analyze them
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://surveymonkey.com
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Seed Pots**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You don't need elaborate seed-starting biodomes or <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">habitat-destroying peat pellets <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> to get your greens to sprout. Here are a few methods that are both easy and-if you'd pardon the pun-dirt cheap.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/recycled-seed-starter-pots.html
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Pbworks.com**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikis that allow students to sign in without email addresses
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://pbworks.com
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">new.schoolnotes.com **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Website that allows teachers to create a webpage.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://new.schoolnotes.com
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discovery Education **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Website that allows teachers to create activities and assessments for their students online.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://discoveryeducation.com