Call the NEC at 441-1347 to schedule one of the programs below for your classroom. Students learn the answers to these questions and demonstrate what they know in a relay race. Through a role playing activity students will recognize that many of their actions are habits and that littering is a habit that has a negative impact on the environment. Students will discuss how certain actions are better for the environment and will work on adopting a few of these actions as habits. Playing an interactive bingo game, students will be able to identify vocabulary used on consumer packaging related to solid waste issues and gain a better understanding of the meanings of this vocabulary.
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Students will rank a variety of litter items and state why litter is undesirable and that littering is a behavior that can be changed. Students will be able to understand the need for packaging and how packaging can reduce the amount of food waste that goes to a landfill or incinerator and describe purchasing decisions that reduce packaging waste. They will be able to explain the plastics identification code and why it is important to have a code. Students will be able to identify important product safety information by reading the product labels and then will design their own product and label. They will then calculate how much energy could be produced by burning municipal waste.