West Routt Library District

"Details how to use craft sticks in projects that demostrate scientific principles"--.

The authors explain how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new.

Explore how different animals in different habitats use recycled material to build homes, protect themselves, and get food.

Contains activities that encourage readers to read for comprehension, use information gained from the text and illustrations to follow step-by-step directions, determine relationships among steps in a technical process, and build the skills they need to make crafts using recyclable materials.

"An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life -- throwing things out -- and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture -- the trash it produces -- and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century,...

Simple text and photograph illustrations explains how some materials are recycled and reused.

Provides step-by-step, illustrated instructions for crafts made with everyday materials, including egg cartons, sticks, and cardboard tubes.

Create extraordinary handmade gifts and decorative accents by recycling everyday household items such as detergent boxes, wallpaper scraps, chipped dishes, and more. TRASH TO TREASURE is jam-packed with 125 economical, earth-friendly projects--each accompanied by clear, easy-to-follow instructions, and radiant full-color photographs. Use your creativity to turn everyday "trash" into delightful "treasures".

Five-year-old Eli's enthusiasm for saving the planet gets out of hand as he continues to fill his room with more and more junk he intends to recycle.

A drive to recycle cans on Earth Day teaches the children of the Maple Street School Save-the-Planet Club about place value.