New York Recycles

Positives

• The resource provides a thorough list of products that come from recycled materials.
• Students can complete the simple activity within one class period.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should know what recycling is. It may also help them to understand what types of things they can recycle and how to recycle them in the classroom.
• It may benefit students to understand how plastic recycling differs from other types of recycling and why this difference matters.

Differentiation

• Teachers can use this resource in reading as an activity to follow a story about recycling, such as Milly Zantow: Recycling Revolutionary.
• This resource can fit within a larger unit on living more sustainably.
• Students can discuss the amount of litter they see in their community and why it's a problem. Older students can organize a volunteer opportunity to clean up the community.
• Social studies students can discuss how governments worldwide can pressure businesses to manufacture goods more sustainably.
• Teachers who don't want to print off copies of the activity can project the image and work as a class or insert the image on a Google Slide or Canva document for students to work independently.