Grades K-2

Sustainability and Being Green:

• Earth Day Every Day by Lisa Bullard 

• I Can Save the Earth by Alison Inches 

• Take Care of the Earth Every Day by Tammy Gagne 

• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss 

• The Mess That We Made by Michelle Lord 

• What Does Green Mean? by Barbara Webb 

• What Does it Mean to Be Green?: Eco-Pig Explains Green Living by Lisa French (only on Epic!)

• What Does it Mean to Go Green? by Molly Aloian 

Waste Reduction:

• Choose to Reuse by Lisa Bullard

• Filling the Earth with Trash by Jeanne Sturm

• How I Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle by Robin Nelson

• Look Out for Litter by Lisa Bullard

• SWACO Virtual Tour of the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill

• Virtual Field Trip #4- Rumpke Recycling Center

• Where Does Garbage Go? Charlie W. Sterling

• How Recycling Works

• Rumpke Tour Introduction

• Wishcycling: What Actually Goes In Your Recycling? 

• Disc Screen at Rumpke

• Batteries and Electronics at Rumpke

• Recycling Rapid Fire

• Recycle Right

• Recycling Quiz

• Make a Difference

• Recycle City 

• Coronavirus Updates from Rumpke

Food and Food Waste Reduction:

• Kids Go Green: Reducing Food Waste

• Reducing Food Waste at Home

• Save More Than Food PSA

• Don’t Waste Your Food (watch video here or available at BPL)

Consumption Reduction:

• Human Footprint: Everything You Will Eat, Use, Wear, Buy, and Throw Out in Your Lifetime (available at BPL or on getepic.com) 

• Kids & Consumerism

Electricity and Energy:

• Energy: First Science (available through BPL or on Epic!)

• Energy: Heat, Light, and Fuel (available through BPL)

• Go Easy on Energy (available through BPL or on Epic!)

• Power Up! Learn About Energy (available through BPL)

• Save Energy, Bert and Ernie (available through BPL)

• 20 Fun Facts About Earth’s Resources (available through BPL)

• Brain Pop Jr. Energy Sources

• Energy Island (available through BPL)

Anti-Pollution Revolution:

• Discover it Yourself: Pollution and Waste (available through BPL)

• Pollution

• Learn about Pollution 

• A Dolphin’s Wish (available at BPL)

• A New True Book Water Pollution (available at BPL)

• A True Book Water Pollution Bright Sky Starry City (available at BPL)

• Clean It Up! (available at BPL)

• Curious George Discovers the Stars (available at BPL)

• Dirty Air (available on Epic!)

• Fish (available at BPL)

• Lights Out (available at BPL)

• Poisoned Rivers and Lakes (available at BPL)

• Power Up to Fight Pollution (available at BPL)

• Rocket Says Clean Up! (available at BPL)

• There Once Was a Sky Full of Stars (available at BPL)

• These Seas Count! (available at BPL)

• You Can’t Live Without Clean Water! (available at BPL)

Wonderful Water:

• Clean Water for Elirose

• Go Green by Caring for Water

• How Does My Home Work? Water

• Kids Can Keep Water Clean

• Who Keeps the Water Clean? Ms. Schindler!

• Why Do We Need Water?

• Why Should I Save Water?

Biodiversity:

• Arbor Day Square (available through BPL)

• Bees (available on Epic!)

• Butterflies (available on Epic!)

• From Flower to Honey (available on Epic!)

• Native Pollinators Beetles  (available through BPL)

• The Boy Who Grew a Forest  (available through BPL)

• The Busy Tree  (available through BPL)

• The Shape of Betts Meadow (available through BPL) 

• This Tree Counts!  (available through BPL)’

Activism:

• Cool Kids Changing the World (available on Epic!)

• Be the Change for the Environment (available on Epic!)

• Energy Island (available through BPL)

• Greta and the Giants (available through BPL and on Epic!)

• Greta Thunburg: Teen Climate Activists (available on Epic!)

• How the Ladies Stopped the Wind (available through BPL)

• Kids Speak Out About the Environment (available on Epic!)

• Kids Who Are Saving the Planet (available through BPL)

• Little People, Big Dreams: Greta Thunburg (available through BPL)

• Luna & Me (available through BPL)

• Old Enough to Save the Planet (available through BPL)

• Our House Is on Fire (available through BPL)