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Earth Day Network: Green Schools: Educator's Network
The Earth Day Network provides articles, lessons, and blogs that aid teachers in providing the latest environmental education to their students.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Earth Day Teaching Theme
Teachers in search of extra resources to help educate students on Earth Day will find an abundance of worksheets, lesson plans, activities and much more from Teachnology.
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Teaching the Jah: Earth Day and the Environmental Movement
As part of a larger lesson plan on the the environment and the environmental movement, this lesson focuses on the movement as part of a larger emphasis on social movements in the 1960s. Find information about the history of Earth Day,...
abcteach
Abcteach: Earth Day Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] How can you treat the earth with more respect? Check out this resource featuring links to elementary activities to celebrate Earth Day. You will find word searches, crossword puzzles, reading...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Earth Day Activity
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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K 3 Learning pages.com: Earth Day Links
How can you celebrate Earth Day in your classroom? This collection features several downloadable Earth Day worksheets including word searches and coloring pages. Students and teachers can plan the perfect way to recognize the environment.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: Brief History of the First Earth Day and What We Can Learn From Its Success Lesson Plan
Earth Day grew out of the environmental movement in the late 1960s in response to a series of environmental disasters that took lives, marred natural beauty and threatened animal species. An estimated 20 million Americans participated in...
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Storyboard That: Earth Day Activities
Lesson plans provide creative ideas for creating storyboards that pertain to Earth Day.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Earth Day, Every Day
A lesson plan for learners to learn about Earth Day, recycling, and other ways to be aware of the environment. A key component to the lesson plan is the book, "Where Does the Garbage Go," by Paul Showers.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: A Day to Celebrate Our Planet Earth
Learners will compare an informational text versus a narrative text about Earth Day. Included in this lesson are videos and pictures of the lesson in action, a printable Earth Day Venn Diagram, and a recycling activity.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Tceq: Lesson Plans & Resources for Teaching Environmental Sciences [Pdf]
A large collection of lesson plans on environmental topics. The lessons are broken up into the broad categories of air, water, and waste, and look at issues around quality, pollution, conservation, and recycling. There are activities for...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Earth Day Song
This lesson plan page is a song that can be used to help young students celebrate Earth Day.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Earth, We're in It Together!
In this instructional activity from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), Earth Day will be explored. This instructional activity is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This instructional activity is provided...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Can We Help Save the Earth?
The children will compare two texts: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton and Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet, about an old house and an animal's home respectively, using a Venn Diagram. They should be guided to address the...
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Earth Day Network: Healthy Earth, Sick Earth [Pdf]
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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Earth Day Network: Conserving Water Through Art [Pdf]
A lesson challenging students 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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Our Sky
What objects are in the day sky and the night sky? How do they seem to move? Come and explore with us as we discover the sun, moon, planets and stars! This detailed lesson plan includes pictures and videos of the lesson in action,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Our Stars
For this lesson, learners will observe and communicate how the stars are in the sky both day and night. The extremely detailed lesson includes photos and videos of the lesson in actions, examples of student's work, materials, parent...
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Laura Candler: Green Court Claims: Are Green Companies Really Green? [Pdf]
In this lesson, students investigate claims that companies make about their products and business practices they use to imply that they are environmentally friendly. Students work in groups to research the claim they chose and then...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Kinesthetic Astronomy: Longer Days, Shorter Nights
This kinesthetic activity demonstrates to students that the Earth's tilt is what is responsible for shifting light patterns and the change in seasons.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Most Lightning Struck Place on Earth
Lake Maracaibo is the stormiest place on the planet. Thunderstorms rage above this massive body of water for up to 200 days of the year, with each ear-splitting event lasting for several hours. Graeme Anderson lists the factors that...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
The following lessons help learners from grades 6-8 understand sleep and circadian rhythms. Lesson topics iinclude: day and night, seasons, sundails, clocks, sleep and sleep patterns and sleeping in space.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Take Pride in America Auntie Litter Needs You!
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org)in celebration of Earth Day, the meaning of Earth Day will be explored. Students will also learn the words to a song honoring our planet. This lesson is one from...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Take Pride in America Auntie Litter Needs You!
In this lesson plan from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), Earth Day will be explored. This lesson plan is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *This lesson plan is provided by Julie Danley, Pam Walston, and...
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