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.
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Student activity guides
School Waste Reduction Quest
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
Waste Sort Matching Activity
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
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!
Grades 3-5 Activity Guide
Grades 6-12 Activity Guide
Green Genius at Home Activity Guides
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
Grades 6-12 Activity Guide
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!
Grades 1-2 Activity Guide
Grades 3-5 Activity Guide
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!
Grades 5-7 Waste Reduction and Recycling at Home Activity Guide
Grades 5-7 Water Conservation and Pollution Prevention at Home Activity Guide
Planet Protector Conservation Coloring Sheet
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
Book Bingo and Zero Waste Challenge
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!