Grades 6-8

Setting the Stage:

• bit.ly/GreenBex7thgradeOctober6Survey

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Regeneration

Sustainability 101:

• 5 Reasons Why You Should Love the Earth

• “Climate Change” video on Brainpop.com

• Living in a Sustainable Way: Green Communities  by Megan Kopp 

• Mallory Goes Green by Laurie Friedman

• Putting Earth First: Eating and Living Green by Megan Kopp

• Tools of Change

Waste Reduction:

• Coronavirus Updates from Rumpke

• Disc Screen at Rumpke

• I Want You To Stop Recycling

• Make a Difference

• Recycling is Broken. Here’s How We Can Fix It

• Recycling Rapid Fire

• Recycle Right

• Recycle Right Frequently Asked Questions

• Recycling Quiz

• Rumpke

• Rumpke Tour Introduction

• SWACO Virtual Tour of the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill

• The Top 10 Ways You Can Reduce Waste (available through BPL)

• The Recycling Journey

• Trash Revolution (available through BPL and on Epic!)

• Trash to Treasure

• Trash Talk: What You Throw Away (available through BPL and on Epic!)

• Virtual Field Trip #4- Rumpke Recycling Center

• Waste: Refuse, Misuse, and Reuse (available through BPL)

• Waste and Recycling (available through BPL)

• Waste Disposal (available through BPL)

• Waste and Pollution (available through BPL)

• What is Waste: Trash Recycling, and Protecting Our Planet (available through BPL)

• What is Waste! Where Does Garbage Go? (available through BPL)

• Wishcycling: What Actually Goes In Your Recycling? 

Food and Food Waste Reduction:

• A Guide to Expiration Dates

• Food Waste

• Food Waste and Natural Resources Presentation Notes

• Food Waste is the World’s Dumbest Problem 

• How to Reduce Food Waste

• How Your Food Choices Can Help Fight Climate Change

• Know the Issue

• Reducing Food Waste at Home

• Savethefood.com

• Test Your Food Waste Knowledge

• The Impact of Food and Farming (available at BPL)

• The Top 10 Ways You Can Eat Green (available at BPL)

• Tristam Stuart: The Global Food Waste Scandal 

• Waste Not

Consumption Reduction:

• But Nothing Day

• Earth’s Resources: Geo Facts (available at BPL)

• Ethics & Consumption 

• Follow Your Stuff (available at BPL)

• How Can We Avoid Overconsumption in our Everyday Lives?

• Money Sense Consumer Sense (available at BPL)

Electricity and Energy:

• Eyewitness Energy (available through BPL)

• Sustainable World: Energy (available through BPL)

• Sustaining our Environment: Energy (available through BPL)

• Top Secret Science in Energy (available on Epic!)

• Renewable Energy: Discover the Fuel of the Future with 20 Projects (available through BPL and on Epic!)

Anti-Pollution Revolution:

• Bill Nye the Science Guy Pollution Solutions

• Pollution (from the Climate Change: Our Impact on Earth series, available through BPL)

• Eco-Disasters: Toxic Water

• Eco Facts Pollution

• Endangered Rivers

• Global Citizens: Environmentalism Clean Water

• How Can We Reduce Agricultural Pollution? 

• How Can We Reduce Fossil Fuel Pollution? 

• How Can We Reduce Manufacturing Pollution? 

• How Can We Reduce Nuclear Pollution? 

• How Can We Reduce Transportation Pollution? 

• Humans and the Hydrosphere 

• Milly the River Fairy

• Rapid River Rescue

• The Problem with Plastic Pollution

• Water Pollution

Wonderful Water:

• 50 Ways to Save Water at Home

• Clean Water Global Citizens: Environmentalism (available through BPL and on Epic!)

• Clear Choices: The Water You Drink (available through BPL and on Epic!)

• Every Last Drop (available through BPL)

• How Your T-Shirt Can Make a Difference

• Ocean Habitat

• The Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan

• The Way of Water: Central Ohio’s Watersheds and our Food System

• Water Crisis- An Introduction

Biodiversity:

• Biodiversity 

• Global Biodiversity 

• The Nature of Biodiversity

Advocacy:

• 6 Tips for Becoming a Youth Activist (As Told By a Youth Activist)

• Greta Thunburg

• Greta Thunburg: Climate Activist (available through BPL)

• How Little Miss Flint is Still Making a Difference in her Community, 5 Years into Water Crisis

• Imaginary Borders (available through BPL)

• My River: Cleaning Up the LaHave River (available through BPL)

• Save Tomorrow 

• The A-Z of Youth Climate Activism