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▼ Help Contents Back 1 ▼ HELP CONTENTS ✂ ✔ WINDOWS ON WASTE ★ ➜ An Elementary, Interdisciplinary, Environmental Studies Activity Guidebook about Solid Waste and Environmental Issues Bob Taft, Governor • Samuel W.Speck, Director ▼ © Ohio Department of Natural Resources Help Contents Back 1 ▼ ▼ Help Contents Back 2 ▼ Ohio Department of NaturaL Resources Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention TE Equal Opportunity Employer-M/F/H S A How to Obtain Windows on Waste Windows on Waste is made available to educators in Ohio through in-service or partnership programs sponsored by the Ohio Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention and its local community affiliates. In some situations print copies of Windows on Waste are made available. Interested parties should contact their local recycling and litter prevention program or: Education Specialist Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention 1889 Fountain Square Court, Bldg. F-2 Columbus, OH 43224 www.ohiodnr.com/recycling (614) 265-6333 © 1999, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Educators are encouraged to print and photocopy pages from this CD for the non-commercial purpose of educational advancement. Any other use or reproduction requires the written consent of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, WINDOWS ON W Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention. Permission has been granted to use the following material included in this CD ROM: ● Lesson V, p. 23: Food Web of the Compost Pile,Browning-Ferris Industries, © 1990 ● Lesson V, pp. 26-27, 32: Selections from Worms Eat Our Garbage: Classroom Activities for a Better Environment,Mary Appelhof, © Flower Press, 1993 ● Lesson VIII, pp. 21-22: Statistics adapted from the Mineral Information Institute ● Lesson XIII, pp. 16-18: Throw-Away Societies,adapted from A-Way With Waste,Washington State Department of Ecology ▼ © Ohio Department of Natural Resources Help Contents Back 2 ▼ ▼ Help Contents Back 3 ▼ When printing, be sure to select page numbers before CONTENTS initiating the print function, otherwise the entire text will print. Lesson V– Natures’s Way With Waste (pp 144-179) Cover (p 1) Activity 1– The Great Cycle (pp 152-158) How to Obtain Windows On Waste (p 2) Activity 2– Bio-What? That’s Biodegradation! (pp 159-162) Acknowledgements (pp 4-5) Activity 3– Compost Critters (pp 163-169) Publicity Flyers (pp 6-7) Activity 4– Meet the YIMBYs (pp 170-174) Windows on Waste:Designed for Quality Education Activity 5– Compost Jars (pp 175-179) Attention: Teachers and Environmental Educators! Lesson VI– Separation Mania (pp 180-187) Bibliography (p 8) Activity – Separation Mania (pp 183-187) Help (p 9) Lesson VII- Techno-Fill (pp 188-208) How to Use Windows On Waste (pp 10-13) Activity 1– Landfill Lingo (pp 193-197) Environmental Studies Learning Concepts (pp 14-15) Activity 2– Does Your Soil Leak? (pp 198-201) Activity 3– Finer Liner (pp 202-203) Curriculum Reference Index (pp 16-23) Ohio Proficiency Test Learning Outcomes – Activity 4– Life…Without Grades four and six Pollution Prevention (pp 204-208) Lesson VIII– Resource Expeditions (pp 210-231) Science Outcomes (pp 17-19) Activity 1– Show ’Em Sherlock (pp 213-226) Citizenship Outcomes (pp 19-21) Activity 2– Mining and Recycling (pp 227-231) Mathematics Outcomes (pp 21-22) Lesson IX– Going Global (pp 232-245) Reading and Writing Outcomes (pp 22-23) Activity 1– From Ohio to the World… School and Community Engagement Index (pp24-25) From the World to Ohio (pp 236-237) LESSON INDEX: Activity 2– I Need This… Lesson I– Trashology 101 (pp 26-51) Do You Have Some? (pp 238-240) Activity 1– The Keys to Garbage (pp 30-35) Activity 3– Trash Around the World (pp 241-245) Activity 2– Garbage Data Pie (pp 36-47) Lesson X–Paying the Pollution Piper (pp 246-260) Activity 3– It Takes a Big Hole (pp 48-51) Activity 1– The “Costly” Thing (pp 250-255) Lesson II– Garbage Goods (pp 52-81) Activity 2– Pollution on the Move (pp 256-260) WINDOWS ON WASTE WINDOWS ON WASTE Activity 1– Econo-Community (pp 57-65) Lesson XI– Home, Safe Home (pp 262-274) Activity 2– Business Boxes (pp 66-74) Activity – Home, Safe Home (pp 264-274) Activity 3– Enterprising Recycling (pp 75-81) Lesson XII– The Trouble with Litter (pp 276-300) Lesson III– The Paper Factory (pp 82-103) Activity 1– Fishing for Litter Habits (pp 279-284) Activity 1– Papermaking (pp 86-93) Activity 2– A Lot of Litter (pp 285-292) Activity 2– What Sort of Activity 3– Don’t Step on Litter (pp 293-300) Trash is This Anyway? (pp 94-97) Lesson XIII– Trash Makes History (pp 302-318) Activity 3– The Paper Company (pp 98-103) Activity 1– Everybody is an Expert (pp 306-312) Lesson IV– This is Your Lifecycle! (pp 104-142) Activity 2– Secrets in a Garbage Can (pp 313-314) Activity 1– Lifecycle Bingo (pp 107-124) Activity 3– Throwaway Societies (pp 315-318) Activity 2– Lifecycle Hopscotch (pp 125-142) Lesson XIV– Journey of a Garbage Bill (pp 320-335) Activity – Journey of a Garbage Bill (pp 323-335) ▼ © Ohio Department of Natural Resources Help Contents Back 3 ▼ ▼ Help Contents Back 4 ▼ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Project Director,Dave Landis, Ohio Department of Corporation; Leslie Dybiec, Ohio Energy Project; Lynn Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Getter, Keep Middletown Beautiful (KMB) and KMB Prevention Education Task Force; Cynthia Gillen, Pickaway County Community Action; Mary Lee Hahn, Ohio Council of Project Manager, Katherine K. Armfelt, Ohio Department Teachers of English Language Arts; Douglas Haskell, The of Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Greater Cincinnati Center for Economic Education; Paula Prevention Hermes, Bowling Green City Schools; Beth deMaille, Project Editor, Heidi Hetzel-Evans, Ohio Department of Pickaway County Community Action; Jill Johnston-Carter, Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Marion County Litter Prevention and Recycling; William J. Prevention Lambert, retired, Ohio University, Lancaster Branch; Judi Mannion, Ross County Litter Control and Recycling; Special thanks to Jenni Worster, Tom Davis, Paul Barbara McGinty, Litter Prevention and Recycling, City of Baldridge and Arley Owens for administrative support – Lakewood; Caren G. Owens, Portage County SWMD; Ildi Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Pallos, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency; Patty Rice, Recycling and Litter Prevention Cuyahoga County SWMD; Laura Rowell, Mead Corporation; Robin Smith, Ohio EPA; Cheri Stentz, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful; Amy Stone, Wood County, OSU Project Consultants Extension; Bill Weightman, Steel Recycling Institute DRLP Regional Environmental Education Leadership Representatives: Gabriele Beck, Erie-Huron CAC; Patty Lesson Developers Bratton, Lancaster/Fairfield County Community Action; Margaret Esser Losik, Portage County SWMD; Della Lesson I: Trashology 101 – Dave Landis, Ohio Ewalt, Middletown Clean Community; Marti Kolb Department of Natural Resources; Della Ewalt, Keep Conner, Newark Litter Prevention and Recycling; Christine Middletown Beautiful; Paulie Shaffer, Wood County McCauley, ParkWorks Cleveland; Joanne Mudra, Richland SWMD County Regional Solid Waste Management Authority; Paulie Shaffer, Wood County SWMD Lesson II: Garbage Goods – Dave Landis, Ohio Department of Natural Resources The following educators provided valuable insight and advice during development: Ethel Briggs, Mid-Ohio Lesson III: The Paper Factory – Joanne Mudra, Richland Educational Service Center; Diane Cantrell, Ohio County Solid Waste Authority; Nancy Mills, Mid-Ohio Department of Natural Resources; Gayle Gerard, Delaware Educational Service Center City Schools; John Hug, retired, Ohio Department of WINDOWS ON WASTE Lesson IV: This is Your Lifecycle! – Katherine K. Armfelt, Education; Beverly J. Klimp, Stow-Munroe Falls Schools; Ohio Department of Natural Resources John Larabee, Lancaster City Schools; Nancy Mills, Mid- Ohio Educational Service Center; Sandy Murphy, Suffield Lesson V: Nature’s Way With Waste – Paulie Shaffer, Elementary School; Kathy Thomas, Columbus Public Wood County SWMD Schools Lesson VI: Separation Mania – Belinda Bankes, Ohio Energy Project Others Consulted Lesson VII: Techno-Fill – Patty Bratton, Lancaster/ Fairfield County Community Action Jerald Bannister, Owens-Brockway Corporation; Sue Bennett, Wyandot County SWMD; Herb Broda, Ohio Lesson VIII: Resource Expeditions – Margaret Esser Environmental Education Council of Ohio; Danielle Losik, Portage County SWMD Bruning, Liberty Union-Thurston Middle School; Mike Canfield, Ohio Township Association; Jessi Crook, Ohio Lesson IX: Going Global – Gabriele Beck, Erie-Huron Council for the Social Studies; Pete Dobrozsi, Mead CAC ▼ © Ohio Department of Natural Resources Help Contents Back 4 ▼ ▼ Help Contents Back 5 ▼ Lesson X: Paying the Pollution Piper – Christine Lesson Testers McCauley, ParkWorks Cleveland Doreen Annable, Creekview Elementary; Jo Ashworth, Lesson XI: Home, Safe Home – Marti Kolb Conner, City Monroe Elementary; Laura Baker, (Marion City Schools); of Newark Litter Prevention and Recycling David Brown, Woodland Elementary (Perrysburg City Lesson XII: The Trouble with Litter – Beverly Klimp, Schools); Bonny Calderwood, Liberty Union-Thurston Riverview Elementary School (Stow-Munroe Falls Elementary (Fairfield County); Jill Johnston-Carter, Schools, Summit County) Marion County Recycling and Litter Prevention; Trisha Dodge, Big Walnut Elementary; Jean Engle, Batavia Lesson XIII: Trash Makes History – Della Ewalt, Keep Elementary (Ohio Energy Project, Southwest Region); Pat Middletown