This booklet lists nearly 150 organizations that offer free or inexpensive energy-related educational materials including posters, curricula, videos, teacher's guides, coloring books and more. The American Plastics Council is offering a Hands on Plastickit for grades K-12. The kits include a cartoon-illustrated activity booklet, guidelines for how to set up school recycling programs and a recycling curriculum. Also available is a free 11-minute video, Busy, Busy Planet that explores issues related to source reduction, energy efficiency and recycling. All of the publications in the educational series are free.
Copies are available in classroom quantities to teachers and single copies to individuals.
Mineral Resources Information Three free teacher packets for grades K-6 are available from the Mineral Information Institute. It also includes ideas on how students can help clean up streams. To raise your students awareness about river protection and restoration, especially during American Rivers Month in June, order the free American Rivers Month Action Kit. It includes a copy of 12 things students can do to save rivers, the most recent issue of a quarterly newsletter for teachers and more. IL 60004 Book on sources of Grant Applications.