ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Earth Day Activity
A classroom activity for students which honors and commemorates the anniversary of Earth Day. Taken from ReadWriteThink's calendar on April 22, 2007. Includes web links, lesson plans, and a bibliography.
Starfall
Starfall: It's Earth Day, Dear Dragon
This interactive fiction ebook focuses a family and a pet dragon participate in Earth Day. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Earth Day Word Search
Earth Day Word Search is a fun holiday activity for children. Kids learn and practice Earth Day vocabulary by searching for the words in the puzzle. Puzzles can be played interactively on the computer or printed out.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Earth Day Crossword Puzzle
ABCya's Earth Day Crossword Puzzle is a fun and interactive way for kids to test their knowledge of Earth Day vocabulary words and facts. The crossword puzzle can be played on the computer or by printing on paper. The interactive version...
Starfall
Starfall: It's Earth Day, Dear Dragon
A read-along story about Earth Day written just for beginning readers. Students can click on each word to hear how it is pronounced.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Earth Day Birthday
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Other
Mother Nature Network: Earth Day: An Animated Tribute
Animated review of environmental legislation and events, produced as a commemoration, in 2010, on the forty-year anniversary of the first Earth Day. Includes a timeline of events. [4:40]
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Earth Day
Overview provides fun facts, goals of the founders, special initiatives, and general information about Earth Day.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Earth Days: Timeline:the Modern Environmental Movement
Trace the advance of the environmental movement from 1948 through the 1980s. Read about the legislation promoting a healthy environment passed under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Earth Day Song
This lesson plan page is a song that can be used to help young students celebrate Earth Day.
Better Planet Productions
Earth Care: The Happy Earth Day Activities Book [Pdf]
A colouring and activity book about Earth Day and things everyone can do to help the earth.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Earth Day
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart for kindergarteners to explain Earth Day by integrating tools on each page that prompt student participation and enhance learning.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Holidays for Kids: Earth Day
Kids learn about Earth Day. History and fun facts about this holiday that celebrates nature.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: The First Earth Day
You would think that the environment has always been a priority but that's not the case. In 1970, a U.S. Senator was disturbed by the lack of concern for our environment and proposed the first Earth Day. Use this site to learn more from...
Other
Think Green: Earth Day Project Ideas: Grades 6 8 [Pdf]
Give your middle schoolers the tools to live and think green with these fun educational projects and art activities. Projects are useful for helping students learn to make good environmental decisions. [PDF]
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Earth Day
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers significance and importance of Earth Day. Activities relate to the 3 R's, cleaning up trash, planting trees, conservation of energy and electricity, an acrostic poem, and Earth Day...
Other
Dltk Kids: Earth Day Concentration
A simple picture matching game with Earth Day-related images. Play by yourself, or with up to four players, and keep score throughout the game.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 4 25 16: Stunning Images of Our Beautiful Planet
Beautiful photos of our planet in celebration of Earth Day. Includes video.
Starfall
Starfall: Every Day Is Earth Day
This is a simple simulation in which the viewer puts different types of trash into three containers for recycling.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Earth Day Network: Healthy Earth, Sick Earth [Pdf]
Madeline Kaplan's book, Planet Earth Gets Well, introduces a lesson focused on climate change. Students will discover ways to keep Earth healthy.
Other
Earth Day Network: Conserving Water Through Art [Pdf]
A lesson challenging learners to develop ways to conserve water in their homes after understanding the impact of water scarcity. A promise will be made by each student and a reminder craft created to help them keep the promises.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Earth Day: What We Do Adds Up
Explore averages and rates of change and apply to calculate the cumulative effect of garbage thrown out by people over time. Use population data from the U.S. Bureau of Census to estimate how much garbage your county threw away during...
Other
Earth Day Canada: Eco Kids: Battery Facts
Battery Facts provides helpful information about the benefits of batteries, how they work, and the concerns over the footprint they leave on the environment when they are not properly disposed of.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: A Day to Celebrate Our Planet Earth
Young scholars will compare an informational text versus a narrative text about Earth Day. Included in this lesson plan are videos and pictures of the lesson plan in action, a printable Earth Day Venn Diagram, and a recycling activity.
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