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  Environmental Education Programs

Classroom Presentations
Invite our education specialist, Kathleen Rocco, into your classroom. Enrich student learning about our environment. She can talk about trashy topics such as garbage, landfills, waste reduction, recycling, composting, litter prevention, plastics, etc. Classroom presentations are designed for specific grade levels and are intended to enhance the schools.

Hands-on Activities
Fab three activities: Resource Extraction, Paper Manufacturing, and Landfill Modeling.

Environmental Activity Resources
Help your students become active environmentalists by using the these environmental activity resources.

Earth Day Activities
Our Earth Day Activities section contains information, lessons and ideas to help teachers and students celebrate Earth Day and to learn about their environment. Earth Day is celebrated by schools, communities and organizations honoring the first Earth Day in April of 1970. Please contact Kathleen Rocco at 216-443-3731 if you would like a speaker for your Earth Day celebration. Every day should be Earth Day!

Contests
Throughout the year, the District will sponsor contests for classrooms as well as students. If you are interested in having your classroom participate, please sign up for our mailing list or call Kathleen at 216-443-3731.

Day Camp/Youth Groups
Our education specialist can come to your site and conduct hands-on activities on recycling, composting and many other environmental activities. Challenge your campers and participants to a no garbage lunch and have them collect trash and recycling items to make crafts and other useful gifts. See our Summer Programs Announcemnet for more information.

Trash Talk
Trash Talk is a 4-color newsletter written specifically for 4th, 5th and 6th graders. The four issues during the school year will focus on different environmental topics, including recycling, yard waste reduction, source reduction and litter prevention.

On an ongoing basis, The District takes requests for subscriptions from Cuyahoga County schools only. These newsletters are available at no cost, but are on a first come first serve basis.

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