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Award: Earth Day Every Day "Earth Day Every Day" award, in color.
Book List: Children's Books About the Environment Looking for children's books about the environment? Here's a list of fiction and non-fiction books (for ages 4-16) to get you started. Let us know if we've missed your favorite book and we'll add it!
Bookmarks: Earth Day - Conservation (B/W) Four b/w bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("save our resources" etc.)
Brainstorm: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle This worksheet introduces the concept of "reduce, reuse, recycle". Students then brainstorm household items and decide in which category to place the items.
Coloring Page: Earth Color this drawing of the Earth, or trace and cut out for a great shapebook.
Coloring Page: Recycle The word "recycle" on a lightning/cloud background.
Coloring Page: Rose  
Coloring Page: Tree Picture of a tree with hearts.
Coloring Worksheet: Natural Resource - Soil Color the picture. Label the natural resource. On the lines below the picture, list some products for which this resource is used.
Coloring Worksheet: Natural Resource - Water Color the picture. Label the natural resource. On the lines below the picture, list some products for which this resource is used.
Comprehension: Earth Day (primary/elem) A very simple introduction to Earth Day.
Comprehension: Earth Day (upper elem/ middle) Fact-filled reading comprehension presents the purpose of Earth Day, the problems facing the Earth, and some actions students can take to prevent those problems.
Comprehension: Earth Day, Every Day (elementary) A reading comprehension, introducing and explaining the terms "reduce" "reuse" and "recycle" and their importance to Earth.
Maze: Earth Day 2 (easy) Put the apple core in the trash can.
Maze: Earth Day 3 (hard) Put the bottle into the recycling bin.
Report Planner: Earth Day Use this web to plan out your project or report on Earth Day.
Sign: Think Green - Create your own sign (b/w) This sign matches the format of our Think Green signs. Students can create their own sign.
Song: Earth Day Rap Children can learn this "rap" song as it's written or can substitute their own words about items that can be reduced, reused, or recycled.
Word Search: Environment (set 2) Find the environment-theme words from "bottles" to "world" in this rectangular word search.
Word Search: Recycling Find the recycling-theme words from "environment" to "water" in this rectangular word search.
Writing Paper: Earth Day (Elementary) Wide-lined paper with an illustration of the Earth and ivy vines at the top.
Writing Prompt: Earth Day (elem/ upper elem) Lined paper to respond to a question about the purpose and activities of Earth Day.



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Report Planner: Earth Day A great tool for organizing reports. Answer the targeted questions to help organize thoughts for a report on Earth Day. Includes a KWL and paper for writing a report.
Sign: Think Green - Keep Me Clean! (cute)  
Sign: Think Green - Keep Me Clean! (b/w)  
Sign: Think Green - Keep Me Clean!  
Sign: Think Green - Global Warming (b/w)  
Sign: Teach Green - Global Warming  
Sign: Think Green - Earth Day (cute) b/w  
Sign: Think Green - Earth Day (cute)  
Sign: Think Green - Earth Day (b/w)  
Sign: Think Green - Earth Day  
Sign: Think Green - Don't Litter (b/w)  
Sign: Think Green - Don't Litter  
Sign: Think Green - Be kind to our Earth! (b/w)  
Sign: Think Green - Be kind to our Earth!  
Bookmarks: Earth Day - Conservation (color) Four colorful bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("save our resources" etc.)
Bookmarks: Earth Day - Cute Earth (color) Four cute colorful bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Love Our Earth" etc.)
Bookmarks: Earth Day - Cute Conservation (B/W) Four cute bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Earth Day Recycle" etc.)
Bookmarks: Earth Day - Cute Conservation (color) Four cute full-color bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Earth Day Recycle" etc.)
Bookmarks: Earth Day - Cute Earth (B/W) Four cute b/w bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Love Our Earth" etc.)
Bookmarks: Earth Day Theme (color) Four full-color bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Earth Day Every Day" etc.)
Bookmarks: Earth Day Theme (B/W) Four b/w bookmarks with Earth Day-themed slogans ("Earth Day Every Day" etc.)
Acrostic Form: Earth Day Write about Earth Day using this acrostic form.
Bar Graph: Earth Day Use this simple bar graph to determine how many trash items (categorized by type) were picked up.
Comprehension: Earth Day (elem/upper elem) "Do your part!" A story of things children can do in order to participate in Earth Day. Does not include questions.
Crossword: Earth Day 3. Across: ______ Day is a day to remember to protect our earth.
Poetry Prompt (Diamonte): Recycle Use the poem form for your diamonte poem related to recycling and Earth Day.
Sign: Earth Day In color, with Earth illustration.
Unscramble the Words: Earth Day from "landfill" to "reduce"
Venn Diagram: Earth Day Use this Earth Day-related Venn diagram to compare things related to Earth Day and the environment.
Venn Diagram: Earth Day Use this Venn to compare various Earth Day issues. Suggestions included.
Venn Diagram: Recycling Use this three-part Venn diagram to compare things that can be reused, recycled or reduced.
Venn Diagram: Recycling (three-part) Use this Venn diagram to compare items that can be recycled.
Word Search: Earth Day From "hazardous" to "recycling bin".
Word Search: Earth Day (2) From "bin" to "reuse". Primary.
Writing Paper: Earth Day (upper elementary) Two pages of lined paper with illustrations of recycling and the earth in the left-hand border, and at the top, respectively. Use for reports,poem, or stories. Great for final drafts.
Writing Prompt: Earth Day (elementary) "Write about ways you can help." Lined paper with an Earth Day illustration at the top and a writing prompt.
Writing Prompt: Earth Day Similes (elem/upper elem) "The recycling bin was as full as..." Develop writing skills and imagination with these simile prompts for elementary/ upper elementary students.
Writing Prompt: Earth Day Similes (primary) "Recycling is as easy as..." Help develop writing skills and imagination with these simile prompts for primary students.
Desk Tag: Clean Water (foldable) Foldable desk tag with a picture of a diver scooping garbage out of the water.
Desk Tag: Keep It Clean (foldable) A space shuttle arm scrubs Earth from a distance, with the words "Keep It Clean" blasting off from the student name.
Desk Tag: Recycle (foldable) Picture of a man dropping garbage into a special chute, with a flower in a flower pot coming out the other end. With the words "Recycle" and "Plant a flower".
Desk Tag: Earth in Bloom Desk tags with Earth surrounded with flowers.
Desk Tag: Keep It Cool Picture of a hot Earth, with a thermometer in its mouth.
Desk Tag: Save a Tree With a picture of a contented tree and the words Save A Tree above the student name.
Maze: Polar Bear on Ice (easy) Help the polar bear get to the ice cap.
Maze: Recycle (hard) Help the cat shoot the arrow with paper through the maze and into the recycling bin.
Maze: Recycle (easy) Help the woman dump the garbage through the maze and into the recycling factory.
Coloring Page: "Keep It Clean" Picture of a man sweeping next to a recycling bin.
Bingo Cards: Recycling theme Set of twenty bingo cards with pictures related to the theme of recycling. Each picture is something that can be recycled.
Flashcards: Recycling theme Each picture is something that can be recycled. These flashcards match our bingo cards.
Bingo Cards: Recycling theme (check sheet) Use this sheet to check which recycling theme words have been called.
Word Problems: Environment (elem/upper elem) "It takes 55% less water to make recycled paper than normal paper... How much water would the same factory use to make the same amount of normal paper?" Five word problems with an environmental theme.
Word Problems: Going Green (elem/upper elem) "We know that, on average, each tree absorbs from 13 to 48 pounds of carbon dioxide per year. We have planted 15 trees. How much carbon dioxide absorption will the trees we’ve already planted enable in the next 50 years?" Five math problems with an environmental theme.
Sign: Think Green - Keep Me Clean! (cute) b/w  
Large Poster: Think Green - Do your part!  
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