DEQ Kids: Let's Talk Trash: What to do with the Garbage in Your Home

(DEQ Brochure, May 2005: pdf 243 kb, 2 pages)

Learn about reducing, reusing, recycling, and household hazardous waste.  Fun activities for ages 5 - 11. 

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DEQ Kids: Waste and Recycling in Idaho

(DEQ Fact Sheet, March 2002: pdf 24 kb, 2 pages)

Learn about the types of waste, disposal options, and how you can reduce the amount of garbage you create.

DEQ Kids: Who Is Protecting Idaho's Clean Air, Land, and Water?

(DEQ Brochure, February 2006: pdf 158 kb, 2 pages)

Learn what DEQ does and how you can protect Idaho's clean air, land, and water.  Fun activities for ages 5 - 11. 

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Environmental Kids Club (U.S. EPA Web site)

Visit the waste and recycling page on the students' site to learn how reducing, reusing, and recycling will help us restore and protect our environment.

Energy Conservation Tips for Schools
(DEQ Fact Sheet, September 2001: pdf 29 kb, 1 page)

Conduct a Mercury Audit in Your School (8th - 12th grades)
(DEQ Lesson Plan, September 2008: pdf 103 kb, 23 pages)

Students conduct an audit to determine what mercury-containing items exist in their school.

Doing the "Three R" Wrap (4th - 7th grades)
(DEQ Lesson Plan, December 2005: pdf 59 kb, 5 pages)

Students wrap gifts and learn how to eliminate, reduce, reuse, and recycle waste.

Hey, We Need That! (K – 5th grades)

(DEQ Lesson Plan, September 2006: pdf 267 kb, 9 pages)

Students learn that we need sunlight and clean air, water, and land to live and observe what happens when plants don't have these necessities.

Making a Mini-Landfill (4th - 7th grades)
(DEQ Lesson Plan, June 2007: pdf 739 kb, 17 pages)

Students build landfills, learn about environmental issues surrounding landfills, and discuss actions they can take to keep waste out of landfills.

Playing Hide and Seek...With Pollution! (Pre-K - 3rd grades)

(DEQ Lesson Plan, May 2006: pdf 985 kb, 11 pages)

Students explore the concept of pollution through an activity and a coloring sheet.

Pollution Prevention (P2) Bingo (3rd - 12th grades)

(DEQ Lesson Plan, January 2006: pdf 87 kb, 29 pages)

Play "Bingo!" to reinforce good environmental practices. Good to supplement other activities.

Recycling Relay (Pre-K - 3rd grades)

(DEQ Lesson Plan, September 2007: pdf 315 kb, 19 pages)

Students learn about trash and landfills, and how to reuse and recycle to produce less trash.

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Reused?

(4th - 12th grades)

(DEQ Lesson Plan, July 2008: pdf 69 kb, 10 pages)

Through interviews with older Americans and/or individuals from different cultural backgrounds, students gain an understanding of how the concepts of reduce, reuse, and recycle are neither new nor specific to American culture.

Environmental Kids Club (U.S. EPA Web site)

Visit the teachers' site for curriculum resources, training information, ideas for environmentally-friendly community service projects, environmental career opportunities, and more.

Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Waste (Annenberg/CPB Web site)

Learn how waste is handled and how some communities are trying to do it better. Includes interactive online activities.

State of the Environment Report
(DEQ Publication, 2001)

In-depth analysis of Idaho's environment compiled and published every three-four years.