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Earth Day
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Children can learn this "rap" song as it's written or can substitute their own words about items that can be reduced, reused, or recycled.
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From "bin" to "reuse". Primary.
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Picture of a tree with hearts.
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Four Earth Day writing activities, each with a colorful border. Can be used alone or stapled to make a booklet.
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Color the picture. Label the natural resource. On the lines below the picture, list some products for which this resource is used.
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Four cute b/w bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Love Our Earth" etc.)
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Use this Earth Day-related Venn diagram to compare things related to Earth Day and the environment.
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[member-created with abctools] Trace and cut out. This globe-shaped shapebook presents Earth Day-related vocabulary for early readers.
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"It takes 55% less water to make recycled paper than normal paper... How much water would the same factory use to make the same amount of normal paper?" Five word problems with an environmental theme.
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Here is a list of common classroom needs. Below each item are two choices for how to meet the need. Circle the choice that would be the best way to conserve natural resources.
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A puzzle, created from abcteach's Soil-Food Web, that helps students understand the relationship of soil, soil nutrients, microbes and food.
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Rather than focusing on text, this lesson addresses Chris Van Allsburg's use of light and shadow to tell a dystopian fairy tale... but it was surely just a dream. This is a great art appreciation lesson.
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These three smaller posters show natural resources categorized as renewable, non-renewable, and cultivated.
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PowerPoint with Audio: Composting Creates Soil. Part 1 of 4 soil presentation in the Living on Planet Earth Series. This program describes how soil is made. By recycling plant materials we help produce vibrant soils that offer nurturing food, and dependable clothing fiber and building materials.
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An eight page set of illustrated templates for creating a lap book on composting, with templates for pockets, flip books, match books, flash cards and more. A great Earth Day project.
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Help students get ready for Earth Day by encouraging brainstorming about ways to protect Earth.
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A two page reading comp on impact of air pollution on health and environment with matching and short response questions; vocabulary list, word search and crossword puzzle.
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Four cute bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Earth Day Recycle" etc.)
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Students list items that they can recycle.
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Four b/w bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("save our resources" etc.)
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A ten page booklet for early readers illustrating the steps of creating and using compost.
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From "litter" to "world".
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"Do your part!" A story of things children can do in order to participate in Earth Day. Does not include questions.
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From "Earth Day" to "recycle bin". These vocabulary building word strips with pictures are great for word walls, sentence strips, spelling and vocabulary practice.
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Reviews Phoebe Gilman's retelling of this Jewish folktale, with questions tying the story moral to the three Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle.
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Identify each natural resource in the table as renewable or non-renewable. Sort the listed products according to the resource used to make them.
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Introduce students to the "Three Rs" of Earth Day in a clear, simple lesson with easily understood examples and a sorting exercise.
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"Recycling is as easy as..." Help develop writing skills and imagination with these simile prompts for primary students.
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"Write about ways you can help." Lined paper with an Earth Day illustration at the top and a writing prompt.
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Open-ended comprehension questions and prompts to go with Dick Gackenbach's tale of three trees: one used for material, one a Christmas tree, and one left in the forest. A great Earth Day tie-in.
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Cut out the pictures. Sort and glue them on the following pages by renewable and non-renewable.
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Use this sheet to check which recycling theme words have been called.
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PowerPoint with Audio: Early Reader version describing how to compost food, paper and yard waste to make rich soil. Great Earth Day material.
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Students list ways to recycle.
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This easy reader booklet is great for Earth Day or any time.
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From "hazardous" to "recycling bin".
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Directions for making an art collage with a natural resources theme.
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Set of twenty bingo cards with pictures related to the theme of recycling. Each picture is something that can be recycled.
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Match the natural resources to their products.
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