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Earth Day Teacher Resources
We found 175 itemsApril 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
- 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
- Gardening with Kids
- 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 EnvironmentâTest
- 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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