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Going Green in the Classroom: Affordable Ways to Make it Happen
As with life on the home front, going green in the classroom without busting your annual consumables budget can require a fair amount of ingenuity. Following are a few ideas to make it happen without...
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Green Teaching: Page Protectors to the Rescue
Wanting to do your ecological part in the classroom and needing to conserve supplies at the same time? Then maybe it’s time to give some serious consideration to repurposing the standard paper sheet...
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Want a Green Bulletin Board? Consider Cloth!
I don’t have to tell you how much paper consumption goes in to our yearly bulletin boards. I also don’t have to tell you just how tedious it is to get them ready and keep them rolling every year....
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8 Simple Ways to Reduce Plastic in the Classroom
OK. We all know about the plastic bag dilemma. Additionally, most of us are trying to use at least a few cleaning and personal care products that are less toxic. The recycling gig is also familiar to...
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Select a Different Classroom Craft Supply and Save the Planet
A situation came up at The Lesson Machine / Lesson Mag office recently that put us in a bit of a conundrum. It got me thinking about how many of us might be contributing to serious environmental...
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Using Mad Green Skills to Generate Less Cafeteria Trash
Walk into any school cafeteria after lunch and observe the bins and bins of trash the students create with little thought. With a little work and education, your school staff (or parent organization)...
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Edible Schoolyard: A Book Review
This review is for the title Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea, by Alice Waters. This book tells the story of how a garden transformed a middle school in crisis. What started as a simple project...
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Greener Living with Environmental Education
With oil spill issues in the news hourly due to the Gulf Coast oil spill it’s a great time to strengthen your children’s and students awareness of how disasters such as the oil spill happen and how to...
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