Great Earth Day Resources

Teaching Students to Care for the Earth

Every year, we celebrate Earth day during the month of April. To help teach students about why and how to care for our planet, here are some great resources from My Teaching Library…

A Study of the Earth – Natural Resources – This is a FREE resource shared from the Minerals Education Coalition.

Earth Day Activities for 2nd – 4th Grades – This Earth Day product includes a large number of activities for 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades for Language Arts and Science! It includes:
– A COMPLETE Lapbooking unit
– A VARIETY of Language arts activities including vocabulary work (Earth, recycle, reuse, reduce, conserve, resources, water, land, air, awareness, environment, clean, responsible, renewable, energy, natural) ; Mini-Books to create ; Reading comprehension ; Earth Day similes ; Poetry creation and more!
– Science Activities such as materials categorizing and sorting
– Answer Keys

Earth Day Activities for 5th-8th Grades – Two activities that students can do to get them thinking about Earth Day and recycling

Earth Day Word Search Puzzles – Why word puzzles? Studies have shown that word search and other word puzzles can help improve memory, focus, vocabulary, word recognition, pattern recognition, and overall mental acuity!

Earth Day Mazes | Puzzles for the Mind – Why mazes? A maze might just look like a fun way to pass time, but they’re actually a valuable learning tool for children. Here’s why:
-For children, completing mazes is a great way to boost their problem solving skills.
-Solving mazes also boosts their patience and persistence and teaches them about the rewards of work.
-Mazes can also help improve a child’s cognitive thought processes.
-Solving mazes are wonderful for improving hand-eye coordination.
-Concentrating on a maze also helps with memory too

Recycling Survey | Math Activity – A fun Math graphing activity that encompasses recycling! Use it as an activity when you want students to practice using tally marks and graphing or use it as an Earth Day activity.