Throwback Post: BEST. EARTH DAY EXPERIMENT. EVER!!!

After we get back from Easter Break, it’s
time to start talking about Earth Day!! I LOVE this
Earth Day Experiment!!!! It is such an amazing, hands-on activity and
GREAT visual for the kids to see just exactly what reducing and recycling
means!!!

First we read this book that you can find
in my “Where
does Garbage go?” pack. This book talks about how
when you throw trash “away”-it doesn’t really go away!! It explains
the difference between dumps and landfills. It also talks about things you can
do to help…

Here is one of the pages from the book:

The book gets the kids thinking about
what they can do to help.

There is also an activity in the pack where kids can sort different household
items that they can recycle every day.

Last, there is a cute activity about tires. Did you know that tires take up
TONS of space and can sit in a dump for thousands of years and NEVER break
down??? This activity tells them ways that tires can be
recycled.

So, then comes the experiment.
To
begin, each group gets a “Tiny Landfill” filled with tires.