Windows on Waste Activities	Grades	Science Learning Outcomes
Keys to Garbage	4	1, 4, 14
	6	1
Garbage Data Pie	4	1
Econo-Community	4	14
Enterprising Recycling	4	14
Papermaking *	4	1, 4, 6, 14
What Sort of Trash is This Anyway?	4	1, 4
The Paper Company	4	1, 6
Lifecycle Bingo	4	4
Lifecycle Hopstoch	4	5, 14
The Great Cycle (compost)	4	5, 14, 16, 18
	6	4, 14, 17
Bio What? That's Biodegradation	4	4, 14, 18
	6	1, 3
Compost Critters *	4	3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 16, 17
	6	1, 2, 3, 14, 15
Meet the Yimbys *	4	4, 16, 18
	6	1, 3
Compost Jars	4	2, 6, 7, 9
	6	2, 3, 12
Separation Mania *	4	2, 6, 12
	6	7
Landfill Lingo	4	14
	6	4
Does Your Soil Leak?	4	2, 8
	6	3
Finer Liner *	4	6, 7
	6	3
Life...Without Pollution Prevention	4	6, 9, 14
	6	2, 5, 17
Show'Em Sherlock *	4	1, 4, 14
	6	1, 17
Mining and Recycling *	4	14
	6	4, 17
The Costly Thing	4	5, 14
	6	4, 17
Pollution on the Move	4	14
	6	4, 17
Home, Safe Home *	4	14
	6	16
Fishing for Litter Habits *	4	14
A Lot of Litter	4	14
Don't Step on Litter	4	14
Everybody is an Expert (trash history)	6	4
Secrets from the Garbage Can	4	1, 14
	6	3, 4

* Great interactive hands-on activity

• The Ohio Department of Natural Resources guidebook, Windows On Waste, provides 36 activities for third through sixth grades. The guidebook is organized in fourteen units on solid waste and environmental issues. The activities pertain to real world environmental issues that the student can participate in solving, and they promotes learner-centered education by inquiry and community action opportunities. The activities have been designed to meet Ohio Proficiency Learning Outcomes for science, math, social studies and language arts.

• To schedule a Windows on Waste activity or other solid waste or recycling presentation, contact Kathleen Rocco at 216-443-3731 or [email protected].