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Improve the Environmental Quality of Your Home

How healthy is your home? There are many simple things that you can do to improve the health of your home.

It’s easy to waste water and even easier to take clean water for granted. Identify ways you can conserve water in your home.

Use this chart to analyze how you currently dispose of items and ways you can reduce waste, reuse items, recycle, and compost.

Lower your energy bills and help the environment at the same time! There are many simple ways you can save energy (and money!) at home.

Use these questions to make your yard, patio, and windows more appealing to your family and to wildlife.

Examine the importance of conserving resources through fables.

Observe a variety of trees and write a poem.

Compare different environments to understand how nonliving elements can influence living elements within an ecosystem.

Examine neighborhood trees for signs of poor health and then investigate actions to help trees in trouble.

Observe, collect, and classify plant seeds.