Trash For Teaching

Hands-on S.T.E.M. through Inquiry Based Investigations

Inventor’s Dream: Students are challenged to create the “Ultimate Recycling Invention.” Using re-purposed materials, young engineers will combine the functional and the imaginative into a device that transports a can into a recycling bin, and maybe way beyond it! This is a collaborative experience where students explore the engineering design process to re-think what [...]
Classroom Collaborations: K-12 Pilot Projects

Thanks to a grant by Republic Services, high school teachers are collaborating to design, implement, and share new concepts for teaching hands-on Physics and Engineering. “Open Source Science” is in it’s first full year of implementation with almost 25 teachers from 20 different schools across LA. The project was born out of an informal group [...]
After School: T4T materials + S.T.E.M. based investigations

NASA’s B.E.S.T. (Beginning Engineering, Science, & Technology) is a collection of 9 space themed engineering challenges, designed for students in grades K-8, with 3 age appropriate levels of curriculum. Activity Guides are free and available online. More information about the B.E.S.T. program: NASA’s B.E.S.T. Homepage: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/best/edp.html Trash for Teaching’s [...]
Community & School Based Events

Ultimate Recycling Machine Trash for Teaching brings hands-on science, engineering, and art to communities in ways that inspire recycling, reuse, and collaboration. Using re-purposed materials, participants design and build a device that transports recyclables into a recycling bin, and maybe way beyond it! This is a collaborative experience where students and/or adults explore [...]
Community & School Based Events

Ultimate Recycling Machine Trash for Teaching brings hands-on science, engineering, and art to communities in ways that inspire recycling, reuse, and collaboration. Using re-purposed materials, participants design and build a device that transports recyclables into a recycling bin, and maybe way beyond it! This is a collaborative experience where students and/or adults explore [...]
Material Warehouse

Everyone is welcome to visit the T4T warehouse. Open to the public every Wednesday from 9-4 and the second Sat. of every month from 9-12, it’s stocked full of an amazing assortment of unique materials in barrel after beautiful barrel. The best way to buy materials is to get a $100 membership that will give [...]
Materials

At T4T we strive to source wonderful, clean, safe, interesting items that local businesses discard in abundance, and make them available to shoppers at the warehouse. Over the past 8 years we’ve collected materials from over 200 companies, most of those original manufacturers still donate to T4T today. Since we first opened our doors in [...]
T4T Material & Tool Carts:

T4T’s mobile resource stations have a wide variety of inspiring open ended materials and tools to support classroom collaborations & after school programs, such as NASA’s B.E.S.T curriculum. NASA’s B.E.S.T. (Beginning Engineering, Science, & Technology) is a collection of 9 space themed engineering challenges, designed for students in grades K-8, with 3 age appropriate [...]
Advisors and Advocates

Passionate about sharing what you are passionate about? Join us! Craig Sipes (LAUSD Physics & Chemistry Teacher, Washington Prep High School) Titus Campos (Superintendent of Schools Para los Niños) Sasha Strauss (Managing Director at Innovation Protocol) Rinaldo Veseliza, AIA, LEED AP (Sustainable Community Development) Joanne Cozens Michael [...]

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T4T inspires educators, students, communities and businesses to rethink what others overlook. We are passionate about hands-on learning and we believe that curiosity and experimentation are the core of critical thinking & ingenuity. T4T VISION CONTRAPTION By rescuing manufacturing overruns, discards and castoffs, originally headed for landfill, and re-imagining these items in various ways, T4T [...]

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What We Do

At T4T, we rescue clean, safe, inspiring items that local businesses discard in abundance, and make them available to teachers, after school providers, non-profits and individuals. > Material Warehouse [...]

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Materials

At T4T we strive to source wonderful, clean, safe, interesting items that local businesses discard in abundance, and make them available to shoppers at the warehouse. Over the past 8 years we’ve collected materials from over 200 companies, most of those original manufacturers still donate to T4T today. Since we first opened our doors in [...]

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