Resources for Students and Teachers

     

    • Home Hazardous Product Survey is a take-home activity to help students and parents identify  hazardous products in their homes and ensure that the products are safely stored. Included are teacher guidelines, a letter to parents, and follow-up activity to estimate the number of hazardous products in the community.

    • What Your Home Haz is a game that makes learning about household hazardous products fun! Children and adults test their knowledge about  everyday products and their potential health and environmental impact.

    • "Lessons in Household Hazardous Waste Management" is a school enrichment program for Grades K-3 and Grades 4-8.  These lessons include background information on household hazardous wastes, student activities, and a list of resources.  The lesson files are free to download but the files are large so it may take several minutes. To read the lessons above you need Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded for free.

     

    • EPA Solid Waste Resource Guide consists of nearly 80 solid waste-related educational materials. These materials were developed by state governments, environmental groups, educational institutes, industry associations, and other organizations. The guide includes curricula, activity guides, videos, and Internet sites that contain information on a variety of solid waste topics.

    • "Streets to Streams: Youth Investigations Into Water Quality"  is a curriculum guide that provides educators and students with background information and hands-on activities about the properties of water, watershed basics, stream ecology, dynamics of contaminants in water, and personal responsibility in one's community. To acquire a copy write to the Streets to Streams Curriculum, c/o Missouri Department of Conservation Distribution Center, P.O. Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180. Also, may be contacted through voice mail at 1-800-781-1989, or email streamteam@mail.conservation.state.mo.us

    • The "R" Project is a new integrated waste management program at Missouri Reeds Spring High School that involves an In-Vessel Composting process for the school district. This innovative project was the creation of the high school students and their biology teacher. Check it out by clicking on the "R" project!

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Last modified: November 30, 2005
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