Earth Day Activities, Worksheets & Resources
April 22 is Earth Day. Use the lessons, printables, and references below to teach your class about our environment and how to preserve our planet. Resources on global warming, recycling, and pollution will help you explore this important topic. There are plenty of fun hands-on activities for science and art to keep students interested in learning about their world. You'll find a variety of cross-curricular Earth Day resources to enhance your curriculum for kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Earth Day Videos
Printables for Grades K-5
- "Light the Bulbs" Recycling & Pollution Worksheet
- Earth Day Word Search
- Renewable and Non-renewable Energy
- Save Our Earth! Alternative Uses for Common Trash
- Trash & Climate Change
- Home, Sweet, Home: Animal Habitats
- Dr. Seuss and Resource Use: Featuring The Lorax
- More Earth Day Printables
Printables for Grades 6-12
- Environment & Pollution: Matching Worksheet
- Activity: Classifying Natural Resources
- History of Earth Day
- Earth Day Activities
- Our Growing Planet
- Acrostic Poem: Earth Day
- What Are Some Alternate Energy Sources?
- More Earth Day Printables
Lesson Plans
- Earth Day Recycling Lesson Plan
- Water Cycle Lesson Plan
- Recycled Art
- Build a Volcano
- Recycled Poetry
- Plants of the Rain Forest
- Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring
- Weather Station
- We Care About the Earth: Writing a PSA
- More Earth Day Lesson Plans
Math Activities for Earth Day
- Recycling Word Problems
- Our Growing Planet
- Buy Nothing Day
- How Can You Make a Thermometer?
- Money-Saving Tips for Teachers
References
- Global Warming: A Glossary of Terms
- Global Warming: So, What's the Big Deal?
- The Uncertainties of Global Warming
- Global Warming: We CAN Make a Difference!
- Global Warming: Greenhouse Effect
- The Global Environment Outlook: An Overview
- Photosynthesis
- More Earth Day References
Earth Day Art Activities
- Recycled Art
- Recycled Art Projects Gallery
- What's the Solution to Ocean Pollution?
- Maisy's Nature Walk Activity Kit
- Collecting Cans
- Recycling Craft Project: Make a Birdhouse
- Children of Native America Today Activities
- More Earth Day Art Activities
History Activities for Earth Day
Language Arts Resources for Earth Day
- Soil Erosion Word Search
- Recycled Poetry
- A Teacher's Guide to An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
- There's an Owl in the Shower
- Taking Care of Our Earth With Katie Kazoo
- Just a Dream Teacher's Guide
- Extinct, Endangered, and Threatened Animals Activity
- More Language Arts Resources for Earth Day
Social Studies Activities for Earth Day
Science Activities for Earth Day
- Which Package Is Better?
- Composting Process
- Animal Apartments
- Making a Wind Vane
- How Can You Make a Thermometer?
- What Can You Reuse and Recycle?
- More Science Activities for Earth Day
Weather Activities for Earth Day
- Earth Science Printables Slideshow
- How Can You Make a Thermometer?
- Weather Station
- Air Quality and the Weather -- Student Worksheet
- Analyzing Air Quality
- Air Quality and the Weather -- Teacher Section
- Air Quality and the Weather -- Student Section
- More Weather Activities for Earth Day
Recycling Resources
- Recycling & Waste Management Educational Videos & Activities
- Environment & Pollution: Matching Worksheet
- Recycled Art
- Favorite Classroom Activities for Going Green
- Recycling Word Problems
- The "Three Rs": Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle
- Composting Process
- More Recycling Resources
Pollution Resources
- Environment & Pollution: Matching Worksheet
- Recycling Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Save Our Environment Printables Slideshow
- The Human Impact on the Environment–Test
- Ways to Help the Environment
- Reusing & Recycling Reduces Waste: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Case of the Broken Loop
- More Pollution Resources
Environmental Science Resources
- Environment & Pollution: Matching Worksheet
- Green Classroom Practices That Save Money
- Save Our Environment Printable Book (K-12)
- Waste Reduction Unit: Activities on Solid & Hazardous Waste
- Recycling Study Guide
- Landfill & Combustion Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Human Disasters: A Timeline of Earth-Altering Accidents
- More Environmental Science Teacher Resources
Natural Resources Conservation
- Composting Process
- How Can Natural Resources Be Conserved?
- Explore Activity: Exploring Recycling
- Classifying Wastes
- Source Reduction Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Composting Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Stop Junk Mail
- More Activities for Natural Resources Conservation
Botany Resources for Earth Day
- Plants of the Rain Forest Rubric
- "My Garden Song"
- Tolkien's Middle-earth Unit 6: Treebeard's Lament
- What Is the Carbon Cycle?
- Pests, Pesticides, and the Environment Activity
- Time to Bloom!
- More Plants (Botany) Teacher Resources
Animal Resources for Earth Day
- Animal and Insect Pictures
- What Is Balance in an Ecosystem?
- Animal Apartments -- Student Worksheet
- Mystery of the Malformed Frogs Lesson Plan
- How Many Shrimp?
- What Is Wildlife Conservation?
- More Animals Teacher Resources
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CHOICE BOARDS
Holiday Choice Boards Essentials Kit
110 pages of holiday choice boards - student choice activities and worksheets for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, an... -
WORKSHEETS
The Human Impact on the Environment–Key Term Review
Challenge students to solve this world puzzle by correctly defining terms related to the human impact on the environment... -
REFERENCE
Global Warming: A Glossary of Terms
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WORKSHEETS
How Many People Does It Take to Ruin an Ecosystem?
Pupils will role-play elements of a food web to illustrate the connections in ecosystems. Then they will respond to rea... -
WORKSHEETS
Renewable and Non-renewable Energy
Use this educational worksheet to teach children about non-renewable and renewable energy resources. In this activity, s... -
VIDEOS
Recycling & Waste Management – Educational Videos & Activities
Explain the recycling processes for aluminum, plastic, glass, and paper through educational videos about waste managemen... -
WORKSHEETS
A Teacher's Guide to An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
Educate students about the climate crisis with these eight engaging activities to accompany Al Gore's An Inconvenient Tr... -
WORKSHEETS
What Causes Land Pollution?
Review the causes of land pollution in this printable. Students will match each term related to land pollution with its ... -
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Earth Science Printables Slideshow
Included are worksheets and arts & crafts activities about the earth, the sun, climate, solids and liquids, rocks, miner... -
WORKSHEETS
Recycling Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
Your students probably already know the basics of recycling and why it is important. This unit of printables and activit... -
REFERENCE
Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring
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WORKSHEETS
Dr. Seuss and Resource Use: Featuring The Lorax
Use these classroom activities with The Lorax by Dr. Seuss to teach kids about natural resources and the potential negat... -
WORKSHEETS
What Causes Water Pollution?
In this Earth science printable, students will review and define the causes of water pollution from sewage, fertilizer, ... -
WORKSHEETS
What Is Balance in an Ecosystem?
A resource for Earth Day, and everyday sustainability This fun Earth Day printable project-based activity will help stu... -
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Spring Choice Boards (Grades 3-5)
This resource includes three choice boards to use in the upper elementary classrooms for spring holidays: St. Patrick’s ... -
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Environmental Science Printables Slideshow
Included are worksheets and activities that focus on endangered animals, waste, and treatment through estimation, identi... -
WORKSHEETS
Recycling Word Problems
Use this matching math activity with your students. In this worksheet, children are asked to write equations based on re... -
WORKSHEETS
Fossil Layers
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WORKSHEETS
Waste-Free Lunch
Teach your students why it's important to prepare a waste-free lunch – and then how to do it! Included is a letter to pa... -
WORKSHEETS
Soil Erosion Word Search
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LESSON PLANS
Plants of the Rain Forest
Present this lesson plan to increase students' awareness of some of the important types of plants found in the rain fore... -
TEACHING RESOURCE
Green Classroom Practices That Save Money
Go green in your classroom with environmentally friendly tips that will save you and your school district money! Learn h... -
WORKSHEETS
Human Disasters: A Timeline of Earth-Altering Accidents
Pupils must research infamous earth-altering disasters then fill in the timeline provided in order to better understand... -
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Save Our Environment Printable Book (K-12)
Use the lessons and activities in this printable book to help your class understand how we can save our environment. Thi...
