If you are a classroom teacher, you can have an impact on how your students view caring for the earth.
Below are the top 5 ideas and activities that you can use in the classroom for Earth Day or any other day of the year!
Nature Walk and Trash Pick Up
Take your class outside and distribute garbage bags to groups of 3-4 students. Then take a walk around the school or neighborhood picking up trash. At the end of the walk, discuss with the students what items were not thrown away by people, brainstorm ideas of how to make the area trash free, and then carry out the plan. Some examples could be install garbage cans by the school, make signs to put up reminding people to throw away their trash, or send a flier home to parents about keeping the school and neighborhood trash-free.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Action!
As a teacher you will need three paper grocery bags with the labels: reduce, reuse, and recycle on the outside. You will also need to cut out, print pictures, or bring in the actual items that people can recycle (aluminum cans, plastic water bottles...), reuse (plastic and paper grocery bags, plastic containers...) and reduce (plastic bags,loose leaf paper, construction paper...). The object of the game would be to break your class into teams. The teams would receive a brown grocery bag with an equal amount of items in it. Before the game, put a number on each item in the bag, so at the end when you check their answers you can see if team #1, for example, got the right answers. The goal would be for the team to empty their bag by placing items in the correct bag of the 3Rs one at a time. The first team to finish with the correct answers wins. Some items, such as loose leaf paper, can go into more than one bag such as recycle, and reduce. The students will have fun with this engaging, busy activity!
Water Bottle Use PowerPoint
Who would've thought that someone would think of the idea to bottle water, and then sell it? Well, as we all know, water bottles are everywhere. From gas stations, grocery stores, to vending machines, bottled water is plentiful. However, bottled water has many negative consequences. Download the Powerpoint below by clicking on the picture. It would be great to use with your students to show them the harmful effects of bottled water.
Students love to play games, and will be excited to play this one focused on Earth Day and the three Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle. Included is the game board (I copy them onto card stock and then laminate), and game cards that need to be cut out. You just have to supply the dice and place markers. It is a great way to either review or teach ways to help our environment. Just click on the picture below to purchase the game board.
Design a Thneed
Help the Lorax design a thneed that protests things that are happening to our environment. This activity would be great to do after reading The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. Click on the below picture to access the fun activity. You could assess this as a writing grade as well.
We hope you enjoy the activities. Please feel free to comment with ideas that you use in your classroom.
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