EDUCATIONAL BOOK CATALOG COLLECTION
#1) The Day the Trash Came Out to Play
- Category: Litter
- Author: David M. Beadle
- Length: 18 pages
The main character of the book, Robin, throws his candy bar wrapper on the ground. As soon as that piece of trash hits the ground, the other trash comes out – causing quite a scene. Robin has to fix the problem, and fix it quick! He comes up with a plan for the town; "If they work together, the town will be litter free again."
#2) Popsi: The Daughter of Mother Nature
- Category: Recycling
- Author: Randy Jennings
- Length: 18 pages
Popsi’s life starts out as a doll and then Mother Nature turns her into a real girl. Popsi needs to help Mother Nature clean up the Earth or she will be turned back into a doll. This comes with a bonus; popsi the doll and her bag, made from recycled bottles just like in the book, as well as a sing-a-long CD!
#3) The Wart Ville Wizard
- Category: Litter
- Author: Don Madden
- Length: 16 pages
Wart Ville is covered in trash. One tidy old man comes to his senses and realizes that he has the power to get rid of all the trash by making everyone’s litter they throw down, stick to them.
#4) I Can Save the Earth
- Category: Reducing, Reusing & Recycling
- Author: Alison Inches
- Length: 12 pages
Max the little monster, likes to litter and never, ever recycles. Then the electricity goes out and he sees how beautiful and exciting the Earth is…and that it will need his help to stay that way!
#5) The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle
- Category: Recycling
- Author: Alison Inches
- Length: 12 pages
Peek into a plastic bottle’s diary as he writes all about his wild and crazy journey from the refinery, to the manufacturing line, to the store shelf, to a little boy’s home, to the house recycling bin, to the recycling plant, and finally…into a space suit!
#6) The Wump World
- Category: Environment & Pollution
- Author: Bill Peet
- Length: 44 pages
The Wumps had a beautiful planet until some newcomers came and ruined their home. The Wumps sit it out until the newcomers leave their planet so they can return their planet back to the way it use to be.
#7) The Lorax
- Category: Environment & Pollution
- Author: Dr. Seuss
- Length: 34 pages
The Lorax who “speaks for the trees” is trying to prevent the Once-ler from cutting down all of the Truffula trees to make his thneeds from the Truffala Tufts! The Once-ler later forces all of the animals from their homes and this is their plight – unless...
#8) Truax
- Category: Environment
- Author: Terri Birkett
- Length: 10 pages
Mr. Guardbark is the ward of the trees and he is trying to understand why human kind is cutting down all the trees.
#9) Recycling Dump
- Category: Recycling
- Author: Andrea Butler
- Length: 8 pages
Shows what types of things can be recycled.
#10) Recycle
- Category: Recycling
- Author: Gail Gibbons
- Length: 16 pages
A behind-the-scenes look at the process of recycling, complete with fascinating facts about garbage and helpful tips on ways that you can help clean up the environment!
The following are new additions for our Book Collection...
#11) Trash & Recycling
- Grades: 1st-2nd
- Category: Recycling
- Author: Stephanie Turnbull
- Illustrator: Christyan Fox
- Length: 32 pages (including Glossary & Index)
Have you ever wondered what happens to the things you throw away? In this book you can find out more about trash and follow its journey to be buried, incinerated, or recycled into something new. This book has easy-to-read text that has been specially written with the help of a reading expert.
#12) Why Should I Recycle?
- Grades: 1st-3rd
- Category: Recycling
- Author: Jen Green
- Illustrator: Mike Gordon
- Length: 29 pages
With amusing pictures and simple text, this book shows the importance of recycling things we used to throw away, such as bottles, paper and plastic. There is also added notes at the end of the book for teachers, including suggestions for reading the book with children and follow-up activities that will help them use this book most effectively.
#13) The Adventures of an Aluminum Can
- Little Green Book Series
- Grades: 3rd-12th
- Category: Recycling
- Author: Alison Inches
- Illustrator: Mark Chambers
- Length: 23 pages (including Glossary of Terms)
Peek into this diary of an aluminum can as it goes on a journey from the manufacturing line to the store shelf to a little girl’s home to a garbage can and finally to a recycling plant, where it emerges into its new life...as a baseball bat!
#14) The Three R’s: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle
- Grades: 2nd-5th
- Category: Reducing, Reusing & Recycling
- Author: Nuria Roca
- Illustrator: Rosa M. Curto
- Length: 29 pages (plus 6 extra pages of activities for students & notes for parents)
This book starts with the basics and gives the definition of the 3 R’s. The book also gives many in depth examples of how the students can reduce, reuse & recycle at school and at home.
#15) Recycle Everyday!
- Grades: 2nd-6th
- Category: Recycling
- Author: Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
- Illustrator: Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
- Length: 28 pages (plus an activity designed for class participation at the end of the book)
- Includes “Recycling Game” with full game board
This book will show children how to become socially aware of their surroundings and help them make our world a better place to live. Follow along with Minna (the main character) as she sets her mind to creating a poster for the Community Recycling Calendar. With all the possible ways to reduce, reuse and recycle, what idea will Minna choose to use for her poster?
#16) Michael Recycle
- Grades: K-12th
- Category: Recycling, Environment & Pollution
- Author: Ellie Bethel
- Illustrator: Alexandra Columbo
- Length: 27 pages (plus 4 extra pages of Go Green Tips from Michael Recycle)
- Includes “Recycling Game” with game board (activity for the class at the end of the book)
Fresh and funny, Michael Recycle will entertain young and old while gently imparting an important message about recycling and environmental awareness. A special section of Go Green Tips (from Michael Recycle himself) encourages all kids to become environmental superheroes.
#17) Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug
- Grades: K-12th
- Category: Recycling, Environment & Pollution
- Author: Ellie Bethel
- Illustrator: Alexandra Columbo
- Length: 27 pages (plus (2 extra pages of Trash Facts from Litterbug Doug, and 2 pages of Go Green Tips from Michael Recycle)
The eagerly awaited sequel to Michael Recycle promises just as much fun as the original, while gently imparting vital information about recycling and environmental awareness. A special section of fascinating trash facts from Doug (and Go Green Tips from Michael Recycle himself!) encourages all kids to become environmental superheroes.
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EDUCATIONAL MOVIE CATALOG COLLECTION
#1) Recycle Rex
- Grades: K-5th
- Copies: 10 (5 DVD, 5 VHS)
- Length: 10 minutes
Recycle Rex and his friends learn about Reducing, Reusing and Recycling their waste if they want to prevent their field from becoming a landfill for everyone’s garbage. This is a fun and educational movie with a catchy tune to sing-a-long too!
#2) The Busy, Busy Planet
- Grades: K-12th
- Copies: 3 (3 VHS)
- Length: 11 minutes
Learn about the importance of plastics and how it can save energy.
#3) The Rotten Truth
- Grades: K-5th
- Copies: 2 (2 VHS)
- Length: 30 minutes
Stephanie talks to us about landfills, incinerators, recycling, and composting. She teaches us about the 3 R’s.
#4) Let's All Recycle
- Grades: 1st-5th
- Copies: 2 (2 VHS)
- Length: 8 minutes
Jeff learns about recycling while taking out the trash. Woody Woodpecker explains it all to him.
#5) Zort Sorts: A Story about Recycling
- Grades: 1st-5th
- Copies: 2 (2 VHS)
- Length: 15 minutes
Zort learns how to pre-cycle, recycle, and reuse garbage. He must empty all of his trash bags in order for him to return to his home planet.
#6) WALL-E
- Grades: K-12th
- Copies: 1 (1 DVD)
- Length: 98 minutes
WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a little robot with a big message about the dangers of planetary neglect. This beautiful and inspiring feature film covers important messages about environmental responsibility and offers students a vision of the future. This comes with a bonus; a downloadable Educator’s Guide with Additional Activities and Resources. The DVD also includes features developed specifically as teaching tools including an exploration of the effects of gravity on the human body, both on earth and in space, and an intriguing look at modern day robots!
#7) Bill Nye the Science Guy -
“Garbage-Biodiversity”
- Grades: 4th-12th
- Copies: 2 (1 DVD, 1 VHS)
- Length: VHS - 45.5 minutes, DVD - 26 minutes
Bill Nye teaches about biodiversity, which are many kinds of life. Living things depend on other things in an ecosystem. He gives you some tips to keep your ecosystems safe and clean. Bill Nye talks about how much garbage is thrown out from everybody on Earth.
#8) Bill Nye the Science Guy -
“Pollution Solutions Archaeology”
- Grades: 4th-12th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 20 minutes
Bill Nye teaches you about the different types of pollution. He also talks about how bad pollution is for our world. He teaches you how to control the pollution around you and the Earth.
#9) Bill Nye the Science Guy -
"Pollution Solutions"
- Grade Level: 4th and Up
- Copies: 1 DVD
- Length: 26 minutes (plus additional features)
Bill Nye the Science Guy Classroom Edition shows students how important it is for all humans to prepare for the future by recycling, researching and developing innovative solutions to combat this “way UN-cool” worldwide problem. Pollution Solutions also goes into the importance of cleaning our water and cleansing our air. In addition to the episode – there are features like interactive glossaries and quizzes and bonus footage.
#10) Bill Nye the Science Guy -
"Garbage"
- Grade Level: 4th and Up
- Copies: 1 DVD
- Length: 26 minutes (plus additional features)
Join Bill Nye in Garbage, as he digs up dirt on ever-expanding landfills from New York to Florida. Bill also exposes the vast amounts of non-biodegradable waste that humans create. In addition to the episode – there are features like interactive glossaries and quizzes and bonus footage.
#11) The Way Cool Game of Science -
with Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Grade Level: 4th and Up
- Copies: 2 DVDs
- Length: Presentation Varies
The perfect complement to standards-based science instruction, this fast-paced DVD game is designed to test student’s knowledge of textbook topics. Bill’s snappy answers to smart science questions use video clips from the Bill Nye Science Guy series.
How it works: Two teams play a fun, fast-paced interactive DVD game that tests their science knowledge about Earth History, Resources and Environment topics covered in the Bill Nye the Science Guy shows including, Pollution Solutions, Garbage and Water Cycle. With completely randomized questions – you will never play the same game twice.
The Question Resource Guide also provides teachers all the questions and answers – as well as the corresponding episodes for further exploration. This great to play on your Smart Board or in your DVD player!
#12) School House Rock! Earth
- Grades: K-12th
- Copies: 1 (1 DVD)
- Length: 50 minutes
The catchy Schoolhouse Rock tunes have taught millions of children that Knowledge is Power! This specially designed classroom edition DVD features great new songs including: The Little Things We Do; The Trash Can Band; You Oughta Be Savin’ Water; Solar Power to the People; The Rainforest; Save the Ocean and much more!
#13) The Green Earth Club “Down the Drain”
- Grades: 4th-6th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 15 minutes
Children learn about the different cycles our drinking water goes through to make it drinkable again. Learn to write a letter to someone you think could help you change your environment.
#14) The Green Earth Club “Our Own Space”
- Grades: 4th-6th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 15 minutes
Children learn how to recycle safely and where to go to learn more about environmental compose. They also learn what happens in a compose site.
#15) Timon & Pumbaa “Safety Smart Goes Green”
- Grades: K-3rd
- Copies: 3 (3 DVD)
- Length: 12 minutes
Pumbaa helps Timon realize how important it is to keep our environment safe and clean. Timon learns his lesson about littering because it can effect his living environment.
#16) Collecting Plastics
- Grades: K-12th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 23.5 minutes
Shows and tells all the different types of machinery used in different cities around the United States.
#17) The Media Guild “The Henry Cycle Special”
- Grades: K-5th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 23 minutes
Henry Cycle teaches Melvin how to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle so he can make more peanut butter and money; Mrs. Hippo learns to recycle the right way.
#18) Return to Sender: A Story about Littering
- Grades: PreK-1st
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 13 minutes
Jennifer learns to pick up after herself instead of throwing her garbage on the ground or her garbage just might end up back in her room.
#19) Scrap Dragons
- Grades: K-12th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 28 minutes
Tag along with Jason and his dad, while Jason teaches his dad about recycling metal. Everyone knows how important recycling is to the environment.
#20) Recycle This!
- Grades: K-12th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 37 minutes
Shows the importance of reduce, reuse, and recyclable items through a school program.
#21) Cleaning up Toxics at Home
- Grades: K-12th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 25 minutes
Learn how to recycle paint and oil. Shows dangers with dangerous toxics around the home. Understand what products are the right products to buy. Shows how to use alternatives around the house instead.
#22) Garbage into Gold!
- Grades: 5th-12th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 25 minutes
Learn how different recyclable items can be made into new products. Hair being made into fertilizer and making shoes out of recycled plastics.
#23) Ron “Recycle” Moore Show II –
Household Hazardous Waste
- Grades: 2nd-5th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 15 minutes
Ron teaches you about household hazardous waste. Corrosive, Ignitable, Reactive, and Toxics are all types of household hazardous wastes. Ron tells you how to recycle hazardous waste properly.
#24) Mighty Sanitation Machines
- Grades: PreK-3rd
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 36 minutes
Anne teaches her brother the meaning of sanitation. Teaches you about the different types of sanitation machines.
#25) Crunch! Smash! Trash! -
Monster Machines that Recycle
- Grades: PreK-4th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 30 minutes
Talks about different machines that help recycle items everyday. Shows the cycle of recycling items in your trash. Some places specialize in one item.
#26) Tinka’s Planeta
- Grades: K-6th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 12.25 minutes
Tinka wants to influence people to recycle any recyclable items. It can save many wildlife lives and keep our world clean and safe.
#27) Mister Rogers Neighborhood -
“The Environment and Recycling”
- Grades: K-1st
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 30 minutes
Mister Rogers learns how to recycle recyclable items such as cans, bottles, etc. A lot of things that we use can be reduced, reused, and recycled.
#28) Somebody Else
- Grades: K-5th
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 7.75 minutes
Talks about two types of littering intentional and unintentional. Learning how your trash can affect somebody else’s life.
#29) Less Waste in the First Place (5 lessons)
- Grades: 1st-2nd
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 20 minutes
Lesson 1- Teaches you the difference between clean and messy. Lesson 2 - Teaches you about 3 types of packaging: Flexible (takes any shape), Semi-rigid (some flexibility), Rigid (cannot flex in any way). Lesson 3: Shows how long it takes to prepare a meal when you don’t have packaged foods. Lesson 4: Talks about how different types of packaging can make some foods last longer and some don’t. Lesson 5: Shows how cardboard takes up more space than what plastic can.
#30) Litter Quitters
- Grades: K-1st
- Copies: 1 (1 VHS)
- Length: 3.5 minutes
Teaching kids to not throw their garbage on the ground or on other people’s property. It might be you picking up someone else’s garbage in your yard.
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