Erase the Waste and Turn Trash Into Cash: Inquiry-Based Science Lessons for Advanced and Gifted Students in Grades 3-4

Recipient of the 2021 NAGC Curriculum Award

Americans throw away 254 million tons of trash every year, and students are naturally curious about where it all goes. Erase the Waste and Turn Trash Into Cash, a 30-lesson interdisciplinary science unit:

• Is designed to teach high-ability third and fourth graders how to think like real-world environmental engineers.
• Requires students to reduce, reuse, recycle, and reimagine trash in new and innovative ways.
• Was designed using the research-based ...