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    Conservation and Environment

    • Natural Yard Care
      • Build Healthy Soil
      • Plant Right for Your Site
      • Practice Smart Watering
      • Think Twice Before Using Pesticides
      • Low-Maintenance Lawns
      • Resources (natural yard care)
    • Water Conservation
      • Reduce Water Use
      • Waterwise Garden
    • Protecting Our Waterways
      • Salmon Watchers
      • Keeping Waterways Clean
      • Kelsey Creek Camera
      • New Zealand Mudsnails
      • Peamouth Minnows
      • Pet Waste
      • Stream Habitat Assessment
      • Stream Team
      • Streams, Lakes and Wetlands
    • Greener Living Classes
    • Reducing Food Waste
    • Bring Your Own Cup
    • Recycle Right
    • Environmental Services Commission
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    • Education Resources for Students and Teachers
      • Waste Reduction Assistance
      • Assemblies and Classroom Workshops
      • Events and Field Trips
      • Student Action Campaigns

    Bellevue Utilities and its partners offer a number of resources that enrich the lives of Bellevue students. These resources help students become active participants in their learning, as well as making for a healthier environment and community.

    (Note: Fillable PDFs are designed for student computers, laptops, smartphones or tablets. For Apple devices, the free adobe Acrobat Reader app for iOS is required.)

    Student activity guides 

    School Waste Reduction Quest

    Decorative image of Elementary school waste reduction quest with cyclops earth and triangle shapes in red, olive, blue, purple and yellow.

    Learn how your school can recycle and compost more with the School Waste Reduction Quest for grades 2-5 youth. Students will explore the school to find all of the bins, stickers, and signs that support a Zero Waste School. Bellevue School District are eligible to receive free technical assistance, materials, and workshops to help students become super sorters. This quest can help students engage with waste topics and make improvements to their schools!

    Grades 2-5

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    Waste Sort Matching Activity

    Deorative image or waste sorting handout with a variety of objects and three bins for recycling, compost, and trash. ,

    Learn what goes where in this Waste Sorting Matching Guide for grades preK-1. Students will draw lines from the item to the correct bin as they learn proper sorting techniques for school settings. Bellevue School District are eligible to receive workshops to help students become super sorters at school and at home. This activity can help students engage with waste topics and support their school in becoming Zero Waste!

    Grades preK-1

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    • View answer key

     

     

    Household Hazardous Waste and Safer Choices Activity Guides

    Learn how to keep your household safe with these activity guides for grades 3-5 and 6-12 youth. Students will review how to identify safer household products, risks to look out for, and tips for poison-proofing their home and daily routines. Bellevue School District schools are eligible to receive interactive classroom workshops on this topic to help students stay safe and become savvy shoppers. These guides help students can engage in this topic at home and in the classroom!

    Household Hazardous Waste grades 3-5 activity guide

    Grades 3-5 Activity Guide

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    Grades 6-12 Activity Guide

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    Green Genius at Home Activity Guides

    Green Genius for grades 6-12 publication

    Make every day Earth Day! The City of Bellevue and Bellevue School District created Green Genius At Home activity guides for grades K-5 and 6-12 youth. Bellevue School District schools have Green Genius teams to help conserve natural resources. Now students can be a Green Genius at home too.

    Grades K-5 Activity Guide

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    Grades 6-12 Activity Guide

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    4Rs for the Earth Activity Guides

    Use these activity guides to learn how you can use the 4Rs – Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – to protect the Earth! Youth learn how to properly sort waste, follow the path of trash, make positive choices to protect the planet, and tap into their creativity with simple reuse arts and crafts. Bellevue School District elementary schools are eligible to receive theatrical assemblies and interactive classroom workshops on this topic to help students make informed choices to protect our planet. These guides help students implement the 4Rs t home and in the classroom!

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    Grades 1-2 Activity Guide

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    Grades 3-5 Activity Guide

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    Powerful Choices at Home Activity Guides

    Tweens and teens can rethink the ways they use and conserve water, as well as how they reduce, recycle, and compost at home! In these guides, youth take conservation quizzes and challenges, and powerful choices they can make in their daily lives. The City of Bellevue offers Bellevue schools water systems, ecosystems, and climate change classroom workshops. These guides help students explore their own daily powerful choices and brainstorm with their family ways to generate less waste and conserve water at home!

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    Grades 5-7 Waste Reduction and Recycling at Home Activity Guide

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    Grades 5-7 Water Conservation and Pollution Prevention at Home Activity Guide

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    Planet Protector Conservation Coloring Sheet

    Grades K-1 Planet Protectors conservation coloring sheet (print version)

    Mother Nature invites you to discover the 3 Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (and the super C-Compost), and become a super sorter! Join the planet protectors and color these conservation strategies. The City of Bellevue offers Bellevue schools a theatrical storytelling program where Mother Nature has just come from around the world and along the way, she noticed that humans are using a lot of stuff and creating a lot of garbage. She invites students to join her as planet protectors and help solve the problem. Young students can continue this learning at home or in the classroom with this conservation coloring sheet.

    Grades K-1

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    Book Bingo and Zero Waste Challenge

    Decorative image of book bingo hand out with open book and world globe and bingo board.

    Explore sustainability topics through this book recommendation list for grades K-12 and take action with the bingo card. This great activity helps kids learn about sustainable and zero-waste actions in a fun interactive way! 

    Grades K-5

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    Utilities

    Solid Waste

    Telephone
    425-229-6612
    Email
    recycle@bellevuewa.gov

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