Thematic Units - Earth Day
Earth Day Resources
Find various Earth Day Web Sites & Activities mixed within each other.
You will also find a collection of general Environment resources a
little further down the page.
At the bottom of the page, you will find Books that you can order directly from Amazon.com!
This indicates resources located on The Teacher's Corner.
Earth Day
This indicates resources located on The Teacher's Corner.
Printable Earth Day Crossword Puzzle
Create your own Crossword or use our premade word/clue list.
Earth Day Word Search
Create your own or use our word list.
Printable Earth Day Match-up Worksheets
Create your printable worksheet from your own matchups or use our premade lists.
Printable Earth Day Word Scramble
Create your own or use our word list.
Earth Day Printable Worksheets
Check out our large selection of "make your own" and "premade" worksheets!
Air Pollution Grades 4-6
This multi-subject theme make it an ideal lesson plan for Earth Day.
Celebrate Earth Day with The Lorax
Play the fun game and help save the trees.
Celebrating Earth Day
Learn about "March for Parks," the nation's largest Earth Day event for parks and open spaces.
Celebrating Earth Day With Kids Grades Various
Here is a great list of activities for you and your students.
Cleaning Up for Earth Day Grades All
During the week prior to Earth Day, you can introduce the concept of Earth Day, why and when we celebrate it, and engage the students in a fun, helping the environment activity.
Creating Built Environments Grades 7-12
Students learn about land use planning, built environments, and cooperative living habitats.
Designing an Ecologically Sound City Grades Intermediate
This lesson will make students aware of the need to respect their environment, and its natural resources.
Don't Use it All Up! Grades 3-6
How can water be conserved? Using sponges as an example, students need and use water daily in many ways, and often in unrealized amounts.
Earth Day Online
Learn about Earth Day's history, find ideas to plan your celebration and much more!
Earth Day Energy Fast
"Cut back or go without man made energy." Learn more about this energy conserving activity.
Earth Day for Kids
This site was created several years ago, but students can take a fun quiz and learn how they can save energy.
Earth Day History
Learn about how this day got started.
Earth Day in Your Neighborhood
Learn ways to get your whole neighborhood involved in this special day.
Earth Day Network
Search for events, browse the Earth Day store, read today's environmental headlines, and much more!
Earth Day Projects
A great resource for ideas and activities.
Earth Day Unit at ABC Teach Grades K-6
A great set of lessons that cover all subject areas. Find printable pages and more.
Earth Force: Youth for a Challenge
A great site to learn how children can make a difference in their community.
Eddy the Eco-Dog
Eddy is a hip and fun dog who helps kids learn new and exciting things about the environment.
Energy Plug
This is a FREE resource guide for K-12 teachers and students that lists low-cost or no-cost energy & conservation resources. Order online!
Environmental Education Web Sites
In honor of Earth Day, which falls on April 22, this month’s column presents a collection of Web sites that will make it easy to infuse environmental education into your curriculum.
Environmental Fair Grades K-6
Students need to become aware of the environmental concerns of the earth.
Garbage
Learn how waste is handled now and how some communities are doing it better. In the activities, you can test your knowledge about hazardous waste we generate in our homes and try to shrink a landfill.
Happy Earth Day
Download a free coloring and activity book.
Helpful Hints for Planet Earth
A class of 1st graders from Pocantico Hills School created this original, online book. Learn why every day is Earth Day!
The Imagination Factory Grades Various
Find great recycling lesson plans & activities.
International Earth Day Site
John McConnell, the founder of Earth Day, shares the origin of Earth Day. Find out how to become an Earth Trustee and read the Earth Magna Charta.
Paper Mache Planet Earth
Here is a great craft to help your students celebrate Earth Day.
Planet Pals
Learn about great activities and celebrations around the world.
Six Simple Things You Can Do To Help
Fun and easy things kids can do to help the earth.
Squigly's Earth Day Fun
Learn how to create things from recycled items, send a postcard, color pictures, and much more.
Superfund for Kids
This site is sponsored by the EPA and has a great collection of Earth Day Activities.
The Earth Day Grocery Bag Project
Have your class participate in one of the largest and oldest Earth Day Celebrations.
The National Wildlife Federation
This site is a great resource for environmental issues.
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General Environment
All I Want for Christmas is a Nice, Clean Earth Grades 4-6
This particular activity is designed to allow students to investigate those items of litter that cause harm to the environment.
Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory
Search for any organization?
The Beauty of Nature - A Sensory Experience Grades K-3
Students investigate the flora, fauna, and landscapes of natural areas/regions and places using their senses.
Can You Dig It? Grades K-6
Students will be able to identify interrelationships between daily activities which require energy and the renewable and nonrenewable resources which are used to provide the energy.
EcoKids Online
Cool site that teaches you all about the planet and its animals. Includes games, news and facts about animals, special guests, gallery of children's art, and a discussion area.
Environmental Thematic Units Grades Various
Here is a great collection of lesson plans.
The Good Earth Tellers Grades 4-6
A Unit on Environmental Storytelling.
Guidebook Grades 4-6
Students will develop an understanding and appreciation of the environment around them through the research and publishing of a guidebook.
Identifying Biodegradable Materials Grades Intermediate
In this lesson, students will be able to identify which materials are biodegradable and which are not.
"I'm Warm Now" Grades Primary & Intermediate
Students are made aware of just how much clean fresh water is wasted as we wait for the water to become warm in our spigot.
Kids @ nationalgeographic.com
Amazing facts, fun puzzles, cool crafts and fascinating stories.
Lesson Plans Grades 1-7
Here is a collection of eleven lesson plans in recycling from the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC). In addition, there are three lessons on composting from the Texas A&M University.
National Wildlife Federation for Kids
Play games, go on cool tours of environmental habitats, even test your environmental savvy.
Oil Pollution Grades Primary
The lesson is part of a unit that deals with the topic of oil pollution. Through a hands-on activity, students learn how oil pollution can be harmful to animals.
One Person's Garbage, Another Person's . . .? Grades Intermediate
This lesson will ask students to consider the issue of waste recycling alternatives for isolated settings. They will be asked to transform discarded solid waste into a usable item.
Our Environment Grades 2-3
Because children are the leaders of tomorrow, educating them today to become responsible users and protectors of their environment, will result in a more positive future for our planet.
Outdoor Education Grades 4-6
This program stresses the "hands-on" approach. If the program is exciting and challenging to students, they will learn whether they realize it or not.
Planet Earth Grades 2-6
This unit could be a 9-week to year long project where all of the following objectives would be taught and achieved by all students.
Power Posse Grades K-8
This Energy Awareness Program web site provides it's visitors with numerous interactive activities.
Project Wild Grades Various
An activity based, K-12 environmental education program from the Council for Environmental Education. Click on "Project WILD Activity Guides" for information on the K-12 or Aquatic programs.
Rain Forest Erosion Grades Primary
Using a conceptual change model, students will make a connection between soil erosion by water and the effects it has on the rain forests.
Recycle City
Visit this city and play the Dumptown Game.
Recycling Lesson Plans Grades K-12
These lessons will help teach your students about the important issue of recycling.
Recycling Paper Grades 3-8
This lesson educates students on the importance of recycling.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Grades 1-12
The main objective of this teaching unit is to change students' personal behavior through awareness. The lesson plan includes helpful background information, links to resources, student activities, and lecture notes.
Succession And Soil Compaction Grades K-6
Students will examine the influence of soil compaction on plant and animal habitat and on water infiltration.
Waste Management Grades Middle School
There are four activities in this teaching unit in which students investigate household trash, biodegradability, packaging, and recycling.
Waste Not, Want Not Grades K-2
This set of lessons educate students on solid wastes.
Water Pollution Grades K-6
These activities will help students' understanding of water pollution and its potential effects on human and wildlife habitats.
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Books
101 Great Nature Experiments
by David Burnie
Air Is All Around You (Let's Read and Find Out Science Series)
by Franklyn Mansfield Branley
Backyard (One Small Square)
by Donald M. Silver
The Bag Book : Over 500 Great Uses and Reuses for Paper, Plastic and Other Bags to Organize and Enhance Your Life
by Vicki Lansky
Be a Friend to Trees (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out, Stage 2)
by Patricia Lauber
Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore)
by Stan Berenstain
The Big Book of Nature Projects
by Len Rubenstein
Call Him Father Nature : The Story of John Muir
by Patricia Topp
Celebrating Earth Day (Circle the Year With Holidays)
by Janet McDonnell
*This book is out-of-print so check your library.*
Color Me a Rhyme : Nature Poems for Young People
by Jane Yolen
Compost! : Growing Gardens from Your Garbage
by Linda Glaser
Connections : Finding Out About the Environment
by David Suzuki
Counting on the Woods
by Ann W. Olson
DK Nature Encyclopedia
Draw 50 Trees, Flowers, and Other Plants : The Step-By-Step Way to Draw Daffodils, Poison Ivy, and Pineapples, Sycamores, Prickly Pears and Truffles
by Ames. Lee J
The Earth (Gifted & Talented)
by Mary Kraynak Bozansky
The Earth and I (A Gulliver Green Book)
by Frank Asch
Earth Book for Kids : Activities to Help Heal the Environment
by Linda Schwartz
Earth Day
by Linda Lowery
Earth Day Every Day (Adventures of Ranger Rick)
by Doe Boyle
*This book is out-of-print so check your library.*
Earth Day : Let's Meet the Earth Kids (Holidays & Heroes)
by Barbara Derubertis
The Earth Is My Mother
by Bev Doolittle
The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet : Native American Poems of the Land
by Joseph Bruchac
Earthkeepers : Observers and Protectors of Nature (Oxford Profiles)
by Ann T. Keene
Earthways, Earthwise : Poems on Conservation
by Judith Nicholls
Earthways : Simple Environmental Activities for Young Children
by Carol Petrash
Earthsong : Based on the Popular Song 'over in the Endangered Meadow'
by Sally Rogers
Every Day Is Earth Day : A Craft Book (Holiday Crafts for Kids)
by Kathy Ross
Fun With Nature : Take-Along Guide (Take-Along Guide)
by Melboring
Garbage Collectors (In My Neighborhood)
by Paulette Bourgeois
Girls Who Looked Under Rocks : The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists
by Jeannine Atkins
Giving Thanks : A Native American Good Morning Message
by Jake Swamp
Global Warming: The Threat of Earth's Changing Climate
by Laurence P. Pringle
Good Earth Art : Environmental Art for Kids (Kohl, Mary Ann F. Bright Ideas for Learning Centers.)
by MaryAnn F. Kohl
The Great Kapok Tree
by Lynne Cherry
How Green Are You?
by David Bellamy
I Heard the Willow Weep
by Toni Albert
I Want to Be an Environmentalist (I Want to Be)
by Stephanie Maze
Janice VanCleave's Play and Find Out about Nature: Easy Experiments for Young Children
by Janice Pratt Vancleave
John Muir : Young Naturalist (Childhood of Famous Americans)
by Montrew Dunham
The Kids' Nature Book : 365 Indoor/Outdoor Activities and Experiences
by Susan Milord
Keepers of the Earth Native American Stories
by Joseph Bruchac(Reader), Michael J. Caduto (Audio Cassette)
Kids Camp! : Activities for the Backyard or Wilderness
by Laurie Carlson
Let's Celebrate Earth Day
by Connie Roop
The Lorax
by Dr. Seuss
*Find a corresponding lesson above.*
The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten : A Book About Food Chains
by Patricia Relf
My Nature Journal : A Personal Nature Guide for Young People
by Adrienne Olmstead
Nature Smart
by Stan Tekiela
Nibble Nibble : Poems for Children (Young Scott Books)
by Margaret Wise Brown
The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair
by Denis Hayes
Pollution : Problems and Solutions (Ranger Rick's Naturescope)
by National Wildlife Federation
Recycle : A Handbook for Kids
by Gail Gibbons
The Remarkable Rainforest : An Active-Learning Book for Kids
by Toni Albert
Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth
by Diane Maceachern
The Shaman's Apprentice
by Lynne Cherry
Sharing Nature With Children II
by Joseph Cornell
Silver Seeds : A Book of Nature Poems
by Paul Paolilli
This Is Our Earth
by Laura Lee Benson
Where Does the Garbage Go? (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out Science, Stage 2)
by Paul Showers
Who Eats What? : Food Chains and Food Webs (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out Science, Stage 2)
by Patricia Lauber
The Wildlife Detectives : How Forensic Scientists Fight Crimes Against Nature (Scientists in the Field)
by Donna M. Jackson
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