KCB offers presentations, activity books, lesson kits, and teacher workshops that can be used in a classroom setting or with a group.

Presentations:

Columbus Pride: It's our City is a 45-minute interactive, elementary school age presentation that teaches students about litter prevention, graffiti abatement and how they can throw away less and help conserve resources by reducing, reusing, recycling and rethinking (The four R's).

		KCB offers a Community Involvement presentation that encourages neighborhoods to organize litter cleanups or graffiti paint-outs, and describes the recycling collection options available to residents.

Kids REUSIN’JUNK is a student activity book targeted at grades 3-5. The book provides teachers with 50 creative, fun-filled and inexpensive reuse ideas and activities to help students learn about source reduction and conservation.

Integrated Solid Waste Management: Created for high school (Grades 9-12), college, and adult audiences, the presentation explains management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generated by households, businesses, and institutions. Specifically, the presentation describes how much waste we generate, the five methods of managing our waste (i.e., source reduction, recycling, composting, waste-to-energy, and landfills), and how consumers can reduce the amount of waste they generate and dispose.

Teacher Partnerships: The Keep Columbus Beautiful Education and Outreach Coordinator will facilitate environmental activities for elementary age (Grades K–5) students.  Activities from Waste In Place, Windows On Waste, and Super Saver Investigators provide students with knowledge, information, and skills to help them make informed, responsible decisions about solid waste management and its effect on people, their community, and the environment.  The activities supplement lessons in science, math, citizenship and language arts.

Created by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and The Dow Chemical Co., An Ounce of Prevention is a mid-level (Grades 6-8), multi-series science curriculum on source reduction.  Partnering with Columbus middle school teachers, the Keep Columbus Beautiful Education and Outreach Coordinator, over multiple class periods, teaches students about source reduction and resource conservation.  Activities from An Ounce of Prevention provide an interdisciplinary approach (i.e., science, math, citizenship and language arts).  An Ounce of Prevention fosters sound thinking and enhances the learning and use of analytical skills, tools, and concepts.

If you would like to schedule an educational initiative, please contact us via the 311 Service Center at 645-3111 (simply dial 311 from most area phones.)