Earth Day 2018 Teacher Resources can be found on the Earth Day website. This year's resources are web-based and cross curricular and turn-key. The K-12 packet available has activities, video links, discussion questions and engaging activities for all grade levels.
The goal of Earth Days - present and past - is to help grow economically aware and environmentally literate students.
There are four components that the EDN's End Plastic Pollution campaign focuses on:
- Grassroots movement to form the adoption of a worldwide effort to regulate plastic pollution
- Educate, then mobilize, then lead citizens to action - worldwide - to demand the clean up and regulation of plastic pollution
- Educate all in each individuals' responsibility to reduce, reuse and recycle plastics
- Man a campaign where local governments regulate plastic pollution
The president of the Earth Day Network sums up the "History of Earth Day" and provides a wonderful link to a Walter Cronkite CBS News Special from 1970 - great for older students to watch and analyze - beyond Earth Day - as a glimpse of the world in 1970. Perfect to lead discussion about what has changed and what has stayed the same.
Hint: The Earth Day Network's website is a great resource for all kinds of environmental issue awareness, lessons and toolkits for classroom use year round. This one from 2017 is still relevant today as it highlights Climate Change and efforts we can all make to work together for a brighter tomorrow. These lessons are not only meant to education, but to inspire students to act locally and globally.
Remember that helping our students become environmentally literate stewards of the earth is an everyday task - with many challenges. Plus - we all love Freebies!
Other Earth Day Freebies:
- Earth Day Task Cards - Earth Day Themed and CCSS Aligned for centers, pairs, early finishers, homework, bell ringers... or at Earth Day Task Cards and Mini-Parts of Speech Posters on TES - 4th and 5th grades
- Kindergarten Earth's Surface Game by Kindergarten Boom Boom
- Primary Earth Day "Craftivity" by Grade School Giggles
- Earth Day Literacy Activities for grades 2-5
- Love the Earth Game - for primary grades
- Save the Earth Graphing Activity for primary grades
- Ten Earth Day Coloring Pages - Elementary
- Earth Day Flip Book - Elementary
- Earth Day Close Reading - Leveled Passages - grades 4 and 5 - integrated with social studies
- Earth Day Word Search - grades 3-5
- Earth Day Photo Scavenger Hunt - upper elementary
- Earth Day Report Card - middle through high school
- Earth Day Lesson Plans - primary
- The Lorax - all grades
- Yosemite Mini-Unit - Upper Elementary and Middle School
Priced Lessons:
- Earth Day and Spring-Themed Warm-Ups, Bell Ringers, Early Finishers - grades 4-8
- Earth Science Project - Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources (including this Earth Day-themed topic "Plastic Pollution")
- Earth Day Activities and Crafts - all elementary
- Earth Day ELA and Science Unit - elementary
- Earth Day Scavenger Hunt - middle grades
- Earth Day Informational Text and More - Middle school
- Earth Day Memory Game - elementary and middle grades
- Earth Day Recycling Game - elementary and middle grades
- Earth Conservation Math Scoot - middle grades and high school
- Earth Day Clip Art - all grades
Thanks for checking in...
Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti