The Center for Sustainable Systems offers a variety of upper-level educational resources on various aspects of sustainability, including instructional modules on material resources and environmental pollution.

EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics offers an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Training Tool, available online in either multimedia or text formats.

Waste and Recycling Curriculum Resources, from US EPA, offers links to lesson plans and activities.

An Ounce of Prevention provides the National Science Teachers Association’s full source reduction curriculum for Middle School.  

Youth Education P2 Instructional Materials from the Peaks to Prairies Pollution Prevention Information Center offers a searchable database of curricula and activities on pollution prevention topics including composting, waste management, and reducing household and community waste.

The P2 Enviro-Rangers is a web-based club for kids under 18 in Montana, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota. The club promotes pollution prevention and source reduction through a variety of activities that kids can register to complete. Information for teachers is also online.

Project Learning Tree offers curriculum for grades pre-K-12 and offers a secondary curriculum module called Exploring Environmental Issues: Municipal Solid Waste.

The Center for a New American Dream has a section of its website devoted to Kids & C ommercialism.

Recycle City is an EPA Region 9 site that provides games, activities, and graphics for kids and adults to learn about the value and process of recycling. 

Recycle Guys Teachers' Page lists numerous curricula, guides, and other North Carolina resources for waste education.

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education offers a searchable database of curriculum materials that contains a variety of resources on waste reduciton.

The Composting Education and Research Center at Rodale Institute offers classes for farmers, nursery growers, greenhouse operators, landscape managers and other professionals who are interested in incorporating composting into their waste management or soil management practices. 

Cornell University’s Composting in Schools web pages offer extensive resources for teachers for teaching composting practices to school children. Topic areas include Why Composting? (a slide show), Teacher's Page, Compost Quiz, Science and Engineering, Composting Indoors, Composting Outdoors, Weird and Unusual Composting, Frequently Asked Questions, and Composting Forums. 

Last updated: January 31, 2005

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