1. SAVE the EARTH Read each slide. Look at each picture. Answer each question.

2. This is our Earth. It is our home. It is our job to keep our Earth clean.

3. No matter how old or how young it is our job to help save our Earth.

4. Are you a Litter Bug? Put litter in the trash can. DON’T BE A LITTER BUG!

5. What you do will help or hurt our Earth. Putting trash in the trash can helps our Earth.

6. But there is too much trash! All the garbage we make ends up in landfills. Landfills are ugly and hurt our Earth.

7. We must make less trash! We must learn to RECYCLE.

8. We can recycle: CANS.

9. We can recycle:

10. GLASS.

11. We can even recycle our fruit and vegetable scraps. This is called a compost heap. All good gardeners have a compost heap.

12. BUT THERE IS MORE THAT MUST BE DONE. Don’t throw trash in the water.

13. Trash makes our waters dirty and hurts animals.

14. This turtle got caught in an old net.

15. People pollute our waters with chemicals and waste.

16. We can’t drink the water and neither can the animals.

17. People pollute our air, too.

18. Smoke pours out of factories and pollutes the air we breathe.

19. Cars emit fumes and smoke that pollute our air.

20. People cut down trees without replanting.

21. Where will the animals live? Where will we live?

22. OUR EARTH IS IN TROUBLE!

23. Who can help our Earth? YOU CAN!

24. Don’t be a Litter Bug!

25. RECYCLE!

26. DON’T THROW TRASH OVERBOARD !

27. HELP CLEAN UP DIRTY WATER!

28. PLANT TREES!

29. TOGETHER WE CAN SAVE OUR EARTH!

30. QUIZ 1.List three ways you can help our Earth. _______________________________ 2. What are some bad things people have done to our Earth? ________________ 3.Why shouldn’t you throw trash into the water? _________________________ 4.What items do you RECYCLE where you live? ___________________________