Holiday: Earth Day

These sites are about Earth Day. Includes classroom and community activities to celebrate this holiday. Many sites explain how to protect the environment and conserve energy. There are links to eThemes Resources on recycling, pollution, and Arbor Day.

Grades

• 1,
• 2,
• 3,
• 4,
• 5,
• 6

Links

• E-Patrol: Energy Savers

  Find out how to save energy in your home. Click on the room names to find out ways of saving energy in each room.

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• Whatsit?

  Learn how to reuse your trash by making a whatsit.

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• The Great Green Web Game

  Pick a character and begin playing this online board game about our environment and earth. Clicking your browser's back button will restart the game. NOTE: The site is slow to load.

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• EPA: Planet Protectors Club

  There are lots of games and activities to download from this page.

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• Garbage: Hazardous Waste in the Home

  Find out if you know how to dispose of different household items by playing this game.

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• Helpful Hints for Planet Earth

  This teacher- and student-created site has games and activities about Earth Day. Includes a list of Earth books and an Earth Day quiz.

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• Our Earth: It's Up to You

  Find out how to help the Earth by clicking on the links. Also includes a quiz to test your knowledge of what you should recycle, give to charity, compost, or throw away.

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• Enchanted Learning: Earth Day Crafts and Projects

  This site has several craft projects. Many of these use recycled materials.

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• ABC: Write About Earth Day

  This page contains links to PDF stationary, worksheets, and coloring pages dedicated to Earth Day.

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• EPA: The Happy Earth Day Booklet

  This 12-page PDF file has fun activities and information for students.

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• Pics4 Learning: Earth Day

  This lesson plan helps students learn the importance of taking care of the earth by creating a poster or comic strip. Printable templates are included.

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• Celebrate Earth Day with the Lorax

  This interactive Shockwave game features Lorax, a Dr. Seuss character. The site also includes a link to more information about the book.

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• ABC: Word Search

  Print out this word search. The word search will open up as a one-page PDF file.

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• Earth Magna Charta

  Read the "Earth Magna Charta" by John McConnell, the founder of Earth Day.

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• Earth Day Games

  This site has games, puzzles, crafts and general interactive activities to help students explore the meaning behind Earth Day

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• eThemes Resource: Holiday: Arbor Day

  These sites offer ideas and activities for celebrating Arbor Day. Includes information on the history of Arbor Day, plus interactive games, online puzzles, and hands-on crafts. Also includes general information about trees and the products that come from them.

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• eThemes Resource: Pollution

  These sites are about different forms of pollution and how it affects our environment. Topics include water quality, acid rain, smog, oil spills, and more. There are online games, classroom activities, and maps.

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• eThemes Resource: Recycling

  These sites have information on solid waste, composting, and recycling. Read about how paper and plastic are recycled. Includes online games and classroom project ideas.

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Education Standards

• AR
  • ESS.8.1.2
  • ESS.8.2.4
  • ESS.8.3.7
  • ESS.8.4.2
  • ESS.8.4.3
  • ESS.8.4.4
  • LS.4.6.1
  • NS.1.4.3.b
  • NS.1.4.5
  • NS.1.4.7
• MO
  • 1
  • 1.1
  • 1.10
  • 1.2
  • 1.4
  • 1.5
  • 1.6
  • 1.8
  • 3
  • 3.2
  • 3.3
  • 3.4
  • 3.5
  • 3.6
  • 3.7
  • 3.8
  • 4
  • 4.3
  • 4.7
  • 5
  • 5.3.A.a
  • 5.3.A.b
  • 5.3.A.b
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 8.3.A.a
  • 8.3.A.b
• NV
  • L.5.C.3
  • L.5.C.4
  • L.8.C.3

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Created: April 05, 2000 at 03:15 | Updated: April 15, 2013 at 19:11