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Teacher's Corner

Welcome to the Teacher's Corner, a page dedicated to educators who want to teach their students about solid waste and related issues. Here you'll find activities and games aimed at teaching students the value of environmental stewardship and the three R's - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

If you have games, activities or other relevant educational material you would like to contribute, feel free to make a submission to wastemanagement@greatersudbury.ca . Bilingual material is preferred. For more information about any of the following, please contact 3-1-1.

Check out the following categories:

• Games and Activities

• Garbage and Landfills

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• Household Hazardous Waste

• Electronic Learning Links

• Videos of Greater Sudbury's Waste Diversion Operations

Games and Activities

• Find the Environmental Words (pdf 52 kb)
• Household Hazardous Waste Crossword with Answers (pdf 89 kb)
• Make Your Own Paper (pdf 138 kb)
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Crossword with Answers (pdf 21 kb)
• Unscramble the Words (pdf 42 kb)
• Waste Spectators (pdf 31 kb)

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Garbage and Landfills

• Autobiography of a Package (pdf 210 kb)
• Garbage Story (pdf 184 kb)
• Landfill Diversion (pdf 61 kb)
• Landfill Gas (pdf 45 kb)
• Sudbury Landfill (pdf 3.2 mb)

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• Don't Be A Waster (pdf 37 kb)
• How Kids Can Help from A to Z (pdf 36 kb)
• Pass the Packaging (pdf 251 kb)
• Recycling Story (pdf 190 kb)
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (pdf 49 kb)

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Household Hazardous Waste

• Alternative Cleaning Products (pdf 43 kb)
• Common Household Hazardous Waste (pdf 33 kb)
• Household Hazardous Waste (pdf 103 kb)
• Know the Signs (pdf 43 kb)

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Electronic Learning Links

Here is a list of interactive environmental websites that are fun and teach children about important issues.  You can incorporate computer lessons/sessions with environmental learning.  Some websites have interactive games, activities, and learning pages and some have print off lessons and colouring sheets.  You can walk students through one of the websites or write the list and let them explore.

Please note some sites are harder than others, so it's a good idea to check them out yourself to make sure every student will be comfortable using it.

• Eco Kids - http://www.ecokids.ca/
• Recycle City - www.epa.gov/recyclecity
• The Green Squad - www.nrdc.org/GREENSQUAD
• E-Zone - www.ontario.ca/e-zone
• Electricity - www.everykilowattcounts.com/kids
• Composting - http://www.earthmachine.com/kids_corner.html or 
  http://compost.css.cornell.edu/schools.html

Other links for research or to further electronic environmental learning:

• Earth Day information - http://www.earthday.ca/ or http://www.earthdaysudbury.ca/
• Freecycle - http://www.freecycle.org/
• Environment Canada's Youth Zone - http://www.ec.gc.ca/sce-cew/default.asp?lang=en&n=87740c94-1
• The Composting Council of Canada - http://www.compost.org/
• Ecological footprint calculator - www.zerofootprintfoundation.org/kids-parents-teachers

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Videos of Greater Sudbury's Waste Diversion Operations

Please click here to view a video on the recycling process.

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