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ENERGY OPTIONS *brand new Summer 2011!*

Talk to your students about renewable vs nonrenewable energy sources, where our energy comes from, what it does to our environment and ways to conserve it!

Energy sources in Montana and their journey from ground to home

Energy Saving Pictionary

Make your own Conservation Contract

Build a Pizza Box Solar Cooker (pizza boxes not included)

Instructions for Solar Cooker

Make a Wind Energy Pinwheel

Download the Energy Options lesson plan

 TALKING TRASH

Teach your students about decomposition, recycling and composting in a lesson that uses trash to talk about sustainability!

Papermaking supplies (directions, screens, blenders, cookie cutters, spatulas, trays, paper &
scissors)
Decomposition timeline (directions, various bits of trash and compostable materials, timeline cards)
Garbage Games (directions)
Trash Monitoring (directions, worksheet, scale)
Trash Tales (books/book list, discussion points)

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY- have your group bring extra Tshirts and learn how to make a no-sew Tshirt bag!

Intructions for no-sew recycled tshirt bag

Download the Talking Trash lesson plan

BACKYARD ECOLOGY

Show your students how to bring sustainable living practices into their own homes and classrooms by scheduling a visit to the MUD demonstration site. Our Youth Education instructors will explore Backyard Ecology with your students, including in the lesson:

Site Tour

Problem/Solution Tag (game)

Chicken Chat (book, discussion points, chicken!)

Native Plant identification

Download the Backyard Ecology lesson plan

RECYCLED RHYTHMS

MUD’s Youth Education Program (YEP!) is presenting the Recycled Rhythms lesson as a way to teach sustainability through music.   

Download Recycled Rhythms teaching materials  from MUD’s website to use in your classroom from the links below:

Recycled Rhythms Teacher Handout.pdf

Recycled Rhythms.pdf

Recycled Rhythms Jar Labels.pdf

MUD Orff Picture Cards.pdf

MUD Orff Music Note Cards.pdf

CHICKEN CHAT

Let us bring you a chicken! Transported in our state-of-the-art Chicken Chook Wagon, we can bring one of our lovely Dominique hens to your school or after school group, talk to
your students about chicken etiquette, read them a chicken tale, and even squeeze in some chicken petting/feeding!

TRUNKS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Food From Around Here

Salad Bowl Botany

HOW TO CHECK OUT
Trunks are available to check-out from the MUD office or Tool Library.

• Check out the Talking Trash or Recycled Rhythms trunks from MUD by calling 406.721.7513 or emailing yep@mudproject.org.  Call in advance to reserve the trunk, then use it in your classroom as needed!

• Have a YEP! Instructor present the lessons to your class.  Call 406.721.7513 or email yep@mudproject.org to find out more information

• Stop by the office at 629 Phillips Street on the Northside

SCHEDULE A SITE VISIT or LET YEP! COME TO YOU

Follow the scheduling process to arrange a site visit for Backyard Ecology or any of our other
activities, or let a YEP! instructor come to your school or after school group with any of our trunks or our chicken!

YEP! Scheduling Process