Reduce
What does it mean to reduce?
To make something smaller or use less, resulting in a smaller amount of waste.
Define reusing a material or resource.
When you keep materials in their original form instead of throwing them away, or pass those materials on to others who could use them too.
What is recycling?
Remaking items into either the same kind of thing or new products.
Old boxes, papers, magazines.
make a collage or recycle various
Describe something you learned about the environment that makes you incredibly sad or terribly upset.
Lalalalala
What is a way to conserve water?
Examples: Take shorter showers, don't leave the faucet running while you are brushing your teeth, collect rain water to water your plants, etc.
Rather than use plastic wrap or a paper bag to take your lunch to school you can use this.
Reusable containers/lunch box.
Give an example of a rhetorical question that makes us think about helping the environment.
Do we really need plastic bags for our fruit?
Old, ripped clothing like jeans or t-shirts.
Make an art project or quilt
Which place is home to more than 1,200 species of fish and over 300 species of coral in Egypt?
The Red Sea.
You can use these to package your groceries and they do not add to waste.
Reusable bags
Which of these cannot be reused? Glass, plastic, or chemicals?
Chemicals.
Give an example of recycling.
Examples: Get a recycling bin and recycle cans and paper. You can recycle up to half your kitchen and garden waste by making your own compost
Old dirty glass jars and empty containers.
recycle or wash and reuse
Trees help the environment, and help us breathe, by producing this.
Oxygen.
What is a way to reduce air pollution?
Examples: Carpooling, riding your bike, using public transportation, etc.
True or false: you can make roof tiles out of plastic water bottles.
True.
Anything we throw away or get rid of, that does not get used.
Waste.
Complete this sentence:
We'll save trees and forests if...
...we recycle paper.
Compare trees to a part of the body and say why they are like it.
Trees are the 'green' lungs of our city.
Rich earth-like material that can be added to a garden to help plants grow.
Compost
What is an example of how you can reuse one product? (Example: Instead of using paper towels and throwing them away you can re-use cloths.)
Example: Put your milk into bottles to reuse instead of cartons. After you eat dinner and have leftovers you can re-use the food differently instead of putting it to waste.
What is the shape that symbolizes recycling?
Triangle.
Banana peel, orange peel, and other food scraps.
Make a compost pile.
What kind of renewable energy is there lots of in Egypt?
Solar energy.