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Earth Day
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Put the bottle into the recycling bin.
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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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from "landfill" to "reduce"
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Put the trash into the can.
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Use the poem form for your diamante poem related to recycling and Earth Day.
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[member-created with abctools] Conservation-themed words in a tree shape.
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A great tool for organizing reports. Answer the targeted questions to help organize thoughts for a report on Earth Day. Includes a KWL and paper for writing a report.
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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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Put the can into the recycling bin.
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Four cute b/w bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Love Our Earth" etc.)
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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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Four b/w bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("save our resources" etc.)
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Two pages of lined paper with illustrations of recycling and the earth in the left-hand border, and at the top, respectively. Use for reports,poem, or stories. Great for final drafts.
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From "bin" to "reuse". Primary.
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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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Four cute bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Earth Day Recycle" etc.)
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A ten page booklet for early readers illustrating the steps of creating and using compost.
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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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Each picture is something that can be recycled. These flashcards match our bingo cards.
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The word "recycle" on a lightning/cloud background.
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Looking for children's books about the environment? Here's a list of fiction and non-fiction books (for ages 4-16) to get you started. Let us know if we've missed your favorite book and we'll add it!
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This informational fiction text with an Earth Day coloring illustration, includes three comprehension questions. (2 pages)
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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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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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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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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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[member-created with abctools] Trace and cut out. This globe-shaped shapebook presents Earth Day-related vocabulary for early readers.
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Picture of a man sweeping next to a recycling bin.
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From "litter" to "world".
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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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Use this sheet to check which recycling theme words have been called.
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Help students get ready for Earth Day by encouraging brainstorming about ways to protect Earth.
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From "hazardous" to "recycling bin".
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3. Across: ______ Day is a day to remember to protect our earth.
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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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Cut out the pictures. Sort and glue them on the following pages by renewable and non-renewable.
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Match the natural resources to their products.
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Write about Earth Day using this acrostic form.
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