Earth Day Activities for the Classroom

IT IS FINALLY SPRING! After a harsh winter, we are in our first week of 70+ weather each day. Today, it even hit 80! Woo-ho! To say I am loving it would be quite the understatement! Speaking of spring, Earth Day is only two weeks away. Today, I want to share some fun and engaging Earth Day activities for the classroom.

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I try to find fun and interesting ways to incorporate Standards into my lessons. In the following activity, I gave students a noun and a verb, and they had to use them to create a sentence with personification. I find it to be an easy introduction to personification, especially for the younger ones. It really helps them grasp the concept and figure out how they can use it in their own writing. This activity really helps to guide them.

Earth Day-themed Personification Sentence Writing Activity

I also include activities about the Earth and how we can personally make a difference. Below is a writing and craft activity that can be used with both the younger and older kids.

Earth Craft and Responding to Topic Writing Activity

Below is another writing activity. This can be used with the same craft pictured above. In this case, though, students use it to create a fact book. This would work great with the younger kiddos.

Earth Craft and Fact Book Writing Activity

Recycling and Needs and Wants Activities

Earth Day Emergent Readers and Reading Comprehension Passages

Earth Day Math Activities

That’s just a taste of what is included in this packet for Earth Day activities. For a look at the rest of the packet, read on below!

This Unit Includes:

*Reading Comprehension Passages
*Earth Day Emergent Readers
*ABC Order Color, Cut, & Paste Activity
*Earth Day Word Search
*Making Words Sheet
*Earth Day Craft with Responding To Topic Writing Activity(includes 5 topics!), & Earth Fact Book Writing Activity
*Graphic Organizers
*Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle Reading Comprehension Passages
*Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle Emergent Reader
*Recycling Graphic Organizer
*Personification Sentence Writing Activity
*Personification Poster
*Mother Nature Poem Writing Activity and Bubble Map
*Needs vs. Wants Color, Cut, & Paste Sheet
*Earth Day Book Suggestions with Included Activity Sheets (Rhyming Words, Context Clues Lesson and Activity, Character Development, Visualizing A Character, Comparing and Contrasting Characters, Writing A Continuation, Plot (Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then)
*Book Suggestions
*Website Suggestions

Click Below For These Activities:

Earth Day Activities Craft Recycling Sort Recycle Needs and Wants Worksheets

I hope you are having a FANTASTIC week! 🙂