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Recycling Kindergarten-Common Core: Rights, Responsibilities and Roles of citizenship. PO3: Discuss the importance of students contributing to a community (e.g. helping others, working together, cleaning up the playground etc.) __Non-Fiction __

 Silverman, Buffy. 2008. //Do It Yourself: Recycling//. Published by: Heinemann Library. 48 pages. Chandler Public Library (Sunset Branch). Summary- This book provides activities for students and the general public to do in order to recycle. There is a table of contains in this book that breaks the book into sections that include where trash goes, talking trash, recycle it, recycling paper, more things to be recycled, making less trash, and a section called Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”. This book contains a glossary to refer to when a word is presented that may be unknown. This book contains some activities that could be done as experiments in the classroom. The one that I found most interesting was making paper. Curriculum-This book contains social studies by the impact of people on the earth. This book also contains science because of the experiments that can be done. Curto, Rosa M., Jimenez Nuria &Empar. 2010. //Yuck! Waste.// Published by: Barron’s education. 35 pages. Chandler Public Library (Sunset Branch). Summary-This book discusses everything that we use daily and that what we use can create waste. This book also talks about the way that parents recycle, what can be recycled and that cities and people in house are not the only people that produce waste. Farms, mines and factories produce trash and can cause pollution. This book discusses environmental risks and not only those of the land and sea but that there is pollution reaching into space. In the back of this book there are also a couple activities that can be done to show that recycling can be easy. Curriculum-This book can be used for social studies because it is discussing a current event in time as well as something that is on-going. This book also discusses ways that people can change the impact that it is having on the environment. This book can be used for art as well as social studies because there are activities in the back of the book.  Showers, Paul. 1994. //Where Does the Garbage Go?// Published by: HarperCollins. 32 pages. Chandler Public Library (Sunset Branch). Summary-students are learning about recycling in school. This book discusses how garbage is picked up and brought to landfills. It also talks about the layers of a landfill and has a visual for students and teachers on page 17. There is a diagram showing the process that recycled materials go through and gives ideas of what people can do to help. Curriculum-Like many of the other books used for this bibliography this book can be used for social studies and the way that people interact with the earth and are making changes to their behavior based on the state of the environment. Because this book gives diagrams of the process that recycled materials go through this book can also be used for science. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Donald Rhonda Lucas. 2001. //A True Book: Recycling//. Published by: Children’s Press. 42 pages. Chandler Public Library (Sunset Branch). <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Summary-This book contains numbers and facts (which may be hard for students in kindergarten to understand without a visual representation). There is also a pie chart in this book that shows what landfills are made up of. This book talks compost, the insects that can break down garbage in the soil and how toxic trash poisons the soil. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Curriculum-social studies is brought into this book through the facts and numbers of the impact that people are having on the environment. Science is also discussed when the book shows the insects that break down the soil. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ward, D.J. 2012. //What Happens to Our Trash//. Pubshiled by: Harper Collin’s Children’s books. 36 pages. Chandler Public Library (Sunset Branch). <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Summary-This book talks about the kinds of trash that people throw away and landfills are composed. Waste that is considered hazardous and alternative energy as well as e-waste is discussed in this book. “The amount of trash produced in America annually can fill enough garbage trucks, lined up end to end to reach the moon” (Ward, D.J. 2012). <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Curriculum-The quote above can be to give the students can visualize the amount of trash that people make to teach social studies. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ross, Kathy. 2009. //Earth Friendly Crafts//. Published by: Millbrook Press. 45 pages. Chandler Public Library (Sunset Branch). <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Summary-This book contains crafts that can be done with recycled materials. One of the materials can be Art Cards with many items that are recycled. Another craft is glove octopus puppets. Art Folders can be made with recycled materials and would be handy for classrooms and art teachers. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Curriculum-since this book talks about crafts that can be done with recycled materials, this book can be used to teach social studies for students to see what they can do to recycle. Art is another big part of the curriculum that this book can be used for.

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<span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wellington, Monica. 2011. //Gabby and Grandma Go Green//. Published by: Dutton’s Children’s books. 15 pages. Chandler Public Library (Sunset Branch). <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Summary-This story takes place when Gabby spends a day with her grandmother. On their day together they sew bags out of scraps and use those bags when they run errands throughout the day. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Curriculum-Like the other books listed students this book discusses how people are reacting to the environment. This book shows what Gabby and her grandma do to reduce, reuse and recycle through the day. Students can use the ideas of what Gabby and her grandma do as <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> things they can do. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth. 2003. //Recycle Every Day//. Published by: Bretton Clark. 16 pages. Chandler Public Library (Sunset Branch). <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Summary-When Minna’s class is studying recycling their teacher assigns them a month of the year and the students have to design a poster about recycling. Minna’s family decides to commit the week to doing varies activities that revolve around recycling. Minna decides to create her poster on Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The last two pages of this book are games that can be made and played that promote recycling. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Curriculum-This book can be used to show students how recycling is taught in different schools. This book can be used for students to show ways that they can recycle. Therefore this book is related to social studies because students are able to relate it back to self. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Kann, Victoria. 2013. //Emeraldalicious//. Published by: Harper Collins. 14 pages. Chandler PublicLibrary (Sunset Branch). <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Summary-Pinkalicious and her brother Peter go to the park. When Pinkalicious’ wand and crown break she makes a new one out of a stick, vines and flowers. The new wand flies away and Pinkalicious and Peter have to chase after the new wand. They find the park is covered in garbage. Pinkalicious and Peter start making items out of the trash and making the park into a beautiful. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Curriculum-This book can be used for social studies to study the way that people react to the environment. This book could be used for art and allow students to see what they can make from garbage they find. Students could be introduced into writing a journal entry about what they can do to help the environment. Students can also use this book as literacy when they read on their own and when read aloud. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Rey <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Margret & H.A. 2009. //Curious George Plants a Tree//. Published by:Houghton Miffin Publishing Company. 13 pages. Chandler Public Library (Sunset Branch). <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Summary-Curious George and his friend in the yellow hat go to the science museum. In the science museum there is an exhibit on Recycling and taking care of the planet. Outside the museum they run into Dr. Lee and found out about an event going on at the park. Curious George becomes very motivated to help and collects various items to be recycled. Some of these items belonged to neighbors who do not want their items being recycled. Curious George inadventerally brings the neighborhood to the park to help plant trees. <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Curriculum-This book brings in science and how trees help the environment. Writing could be introduced by prompting students to write about what they would do to help or how they would feel if Curious George took their belongings to be recycled without permission <span style="font-family: Andalus,serif; font-size: 12pt;">.