Recycling/Sustainable Earth

In researching using the databases, try the following key words and search terms:

recycling, conservation, papermaking (one word). You can try a boolean search, too! Try paper and recycling in the advanced search, or conservation and natural resources, or papermaking not crafts.

Grolier: remember to click the purple box at the top right to access Grolier kids, and use the New Book of Knowledge (purple NBK logo) links for results on your reading level.

Kids InfoBits: remember to scroll down to the bottom to access Kids InfoBits. Besides trying your search terms in the "Science" section, you can also click on the "Technology" section, then choose "Materials," then choose "Paper."

Proquest: click on elibrary elementary.

Here are some interactive electronic resources on recycling and papermaking for you. You can also use NetTreker to find more websites!

• NIEHS Kids' Pages: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: a page with great advice and many links
• EEK Recycling and Beyond: Lots of activity pages including a video on visiting a landfill
• Kids FACE (Kids for a Clean Environment): Choose a mission- recycle, build, or plant!
• Environmental Kids Club: site from the US Environmental Protection Agency
• Young People's Trust for the Environment: Environmental facts- click on a link from an alphabetical list
• Paper from Pine- Chemistry: great site on papermaking
• Teachers' Domain- Making Recycled Paper: PBS Zoom video on papermaking
• Robert C. Williams Paper Museum: tour the paper museum from Georgia Tech
• Earth 911- Paper: Click the links in the blue box on the left
• Recycle Roundup: game from National Geographic Kids