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I Speak for the Trees! PrintablesI Speak for the Trees! Printables
Publisher
Dr. Seuss Enterprises
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Grade
K - 5th
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Science
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Year
2014
Printables

I Speak for the Trees!

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Celebrate the environment and Earth Day with Dr. Seuss's The Lorax. Kids get to color in a picture and complete a few word puzzles. Also included is a poster encouraging kids to recycle.

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Concepts

dr. seuss, the lorax, Coloring, recycling, earth day

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Pair these resource with a study of The Lorax
  • Hold an Earth Day celebration and set up stations with the various worksheets included here

Classroom Considerations

  • While the pages do say Earth Day in the top-right corner, you could use these at any time of year to support your instruction about the environment and recycling
  • Note that the answer key for the word games are right on the page, so you may want to block those out 

Pros

  • All the pages include high-quality images from the book as decoration
  • Great for quick practice or an end-of-class reward

Cons

  • None

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