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Visiting Education Programs

  The City of St. Louis Refuse Division offers environmental education programs at no charge to all K-12 public and private schools and youth groups located within the City of St. Louis.
  Our programs are designed to fit into your existing curriculum, and to support Missouri’s Show-Me Standards. Most can be altered to meet the needs of any grade level.
  To see a complete list of programs available, including detailed information on their correlations with Missouri's Show-Me Standards, click here.

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  All of our educational programs, as well as materials from our lending library, are available at no cost to schools and youth groups located within the St. Louis city limits.


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Our Programs and Missouri's Show-Me Standards

INTEGRATED LEARNING
  The concepts of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle extend far beyond the parameters of a science curriculum. Our interdisciplinary programs offer opportunities to practice critical thinking skills, oral and written communication skills, mathematics, and artistic expression.

MULTIPLE LEARNING STYLES
   We understand that students learn and relate to materials in different ways. We make efforts to respond to a broad range of learning styles in all of our educational programs. We communicate each lesson through a combination of discussion, visual and tactile aids, and follow-along material (written and/or audio-visual).

TEAM BUILDING
   Solving environmental problems requires the involvement of the entire community. Many of our programs offer the opportunity for students to discuss issues and devise solutions by working together, either with the class or in small groups.

Missouri's Show-Me Standards (Official Site)


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Educational Resources for Loan

LENDING LIBRARY
  The Recycling Program offers extensive video and book libraries covering a range of environmental topics. Books and videos are available for loan for up to 2 weeks. For a complete list, or to learn more about a specific item, click here.
You may also email us at recycle@stlouis.missouri.org, or call the Recycling Program at 314.353.8877.


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Recycling at Your School

PAPER
  The City of St. Louis Recycling Program can also assist you in implementing and institutionalizing recycling practices in your school. Our goal is to have all schools recycling. About 70% of a school’s waste is in the form of recyclable paper.
  For every ton of paper your school recycles, your students will be saving 17 trees from destruction!
  Contact the Recycling Program at recycle@stlouis.missouri.org, or call us at 314.353.8877 for assistance. We can help you to design and implement a collection system, and to educate staff and students about how to participate.

OTHER MATERIALS
  The Refuse Division has also compiled this list of additional opportunities for reusing and recycling at your school or with your youth group:
Reuse and Recycling Opportunities for Schools and Youth Groups

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    Supplemental Educational Resources

    RENEWS

    The City of St Louis Recycling Program publishes a monthly newsletter for City educators, free-of-charge. Subscribe to ReNews electronically by e-mailing us at recycle@stlouis.missouri.org, or call us at 314.353.8877.

    Visit http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/recycle/renews.html to view, download, or print issues of ReNews.


    CURRICULUM MATERIALS
    The City of St Louis Recycling Program can also provide you with a number of teaching materials to enhance your existing curriculum. These packages are designed as classroom workshops and are not intended to monopolize the curriculum. Also, while a developmental sequence is provided, the nature and direction of these projects is left to the teacher and students involved. Simply email us at recycle@stlouis.missouri.org (click     here) or call us at 314.353.8877 to request a copy of the following:

    Building Brighter Futures
    Students are responsible for creating an entire city! How environmentally responsible it is depends on them. Materials, tasks, details of the town, and cross-curricular lessons come included. Activities and assignments vary by grade level and class focus.

    Buy Reused Or Recycled Teaching Kit
    Educators that teach at a public or private school or youth group that is located within the City of St. Louis, or that homeschool within City limits are eligible to receive a kit of product examples and lesson plans. These materials can assist educators with teaching about the importance of closing the loop by buying products with post-consumer reused or recycled content. While supplies last, this kit may include the following examples:

  • from plastic = ball cap, bike bottle, certificate/picture frame, clipboard, decoder ring, flying disk, grocery/tote bag, highlighter, ice scraper, key tag, lanyard, letter opener, light switch plate cover, marker, pad folio, pencil, ruler, shoelaces, whistle, zipper pull, 3-ring binder
  • from paper = coloring book, comb, magnet, notepad, pen, pencil, ruler
  • from rubber = mouse pad, pen
    In addition to teaching about buy reused or recycled, these products can be used for demonstration purposes during classes on recycling. Given the plethora of plastic items, many of the items in this kit could be used as visual aids during lesson plans about petroleum, products derived from it, the need for conservation, the potential relation of petroleum consumption to climate change, etc. And, the paper products can be used while teaching about trees and forestry, while the rubber pens could be incorporated during lessons on rainforests.

    REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FROM OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
      This is a list of waste management-related educational resources offered by organizations other than the City of St. Louis Refuse Division.
    More Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Educational Resources

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    FIELD TRIP SUGGESTIONS
      The City of St Louis Recycling Program has also compiled a list of field trip options that may enhance your curriculum. Click on the following link to view these suggestions.

    FIELD TRIP SUGGESTIONS
    (PDF formatted flyer)

    If you are interested in scheduling a presentation or borrowing materials, contact the Refuse Division's Recycling Program by email at recycle@stlouis.missouri.org or call 314.353.8877.

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