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Activity
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Earth Day Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: It's Earth Day, Dear Dragon

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Earth Day Word Search

For Students 3rd - 6th
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.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Earth Day Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 6th
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...
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eBook
Starfall

Starfall: It's Earth Day, Dear Dragon

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A read-along story about Earth Day written just for beginning readers. Students can click on each word to hear how it is pronounced.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Earth Day Birthday

For Students 3rd - 4th
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...
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Website
Other

Mother Nature Network: Earth Day: An Animated Tribute

For Students 9th - 10th
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]
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Earth Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview provides fun facts, goals of the founders, special initiatives, and general information about Earth Day.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Earth Days: Timeline:the Modern Environmental Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Earth Day Song

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan page is a song that can be used to help young students celebrate Earth Day.
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Activity
Better Planet Productions

Earth Care: The Happy Earth Day Activities Book [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A colouring and activity book about Earth Day and things everyone can do to help the earth.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Earth Day

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Holidays for Kids: Earth Day

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Earth Day. History and fun facts about this holiday that celebrates nature.
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: The First Earth Day

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Think Green: Earth Day Project Ideas: Grades 6 8 [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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]
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Earth Day

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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...
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Interactive
Other

Dltk Kids: Earth Day Concentration

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 4 25 16: Stunning Images of Our Beautiful Planet

For Students 5th - 8th
Beautiful photos of our planet in celebration of Earth Day. Includes video.
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Every Day Is Earth Day

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a simple simulation in which the viewer puts different types of trash into three containers for recycling.
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Lesson Plan
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Earth Day Network: Healthy Earth, Sick Earth [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
Madeline Kaplan's book, Planet Earth Gets Well, introduces a lesson focused on climate change. Students will discover ways to keep Earth healthy.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Earth Day Network: Conserving Water Through Art [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Earth Day: What We Do Adds Up

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Handout
Other

Earth Day Canada: Eco Kids: Battery Facts

For Students 3rd - 9th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: A Day to Celebrate Our Planet Earth

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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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