Assembly shows that work incorporate follow up materials to reinforce the waste reduction message in the classroom. These activities can be excellent additions to the existing curriculum. Examples include teacher activity guides which give useful ideas about incorporating WRR into lesson plans and provide sample school projects, and student materials, such as bookmarks, posters, and stickers, that provide continuing motivation, examples, and reminders of waste reduction and recycling that can be used in school or at home. Individual students, classes and schools can take on many projects to benefit the WRR goal. WRR projects are easily incorporated into a number of subject lessons.
Projects can be short or long term.
Students are particularly encouraged with projects that show results quickly. Events can also be planned which last over the course of the school year, such as maintaining a classroom worm bin to reinforce the message that waste reduction is a life long habit and results do not always happen overnight. In addition to being easily integrated into the elementary school curriculum, WRR is a current event. With environmental issues being discussed in newspapers and on television, an elementary school program provides yet another channel of reinforcement for WRR practices. Seeing WRR crop up in many different places during the course of the day helps give children the feeling that what they are doing in school is of national and international importance.