More Earth Day Resources

Whether you seek ideas for a community service project for Earth Day or ways to use innovative technologies to bring the environment into your classroom, TeachersFIrst has the reviewed resources to meet your needs. This extensive list is a full listing of TeachersFirst resource for Earth Day.
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Solar Energy Education - Tucson Electric Power Company
Grades
K to 10tag(s): chemicals (44), earth (224), earth day (105), energy (207), fossil fuels (18), solar energy (39)
In the Classroom
Use this animated site for students to gain background information about Solar Energy. Students can then work in groups to investigate various concepts from the animation. Student groups can also investigate renewable vs. nonrenewable energy sources following this introduction. Students can create posters using conventional materials or many of the multimedia applications for a digital version. Students can create a pamphlet, draft a letter, or editorial for change in energy policies, etc. With younger grades, share the website on an interactive whiteboard or projector.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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ecology center - Ecology Center
Grades
5 to 12Notes: Links on the site ask for donations to the organization and suggest places to volunteer. A store link is also included. This site is best suited for teachers, as it contains lesson plans. Links to articles can be provided directly from your class web page.
This site includes advertising.
tag(s): consumers (18), earth (224), earth day (105), ecology (138), molecules (45)
In the Classroom
Use the information on the site to enhance lessons on sustainable topics. The background information is extensive and easy to follow. Form students into small groups, based on their interest, for learning about one of the sustainable concepts. Students can create a multimedia presentation of their concept in order to improve awareness for others in the community. Great tools for creating a multimedia project are Venngage, an infographic tool, reviewed here, Padlet, a poster tool, reviewed here, or Gravit, that creates a flyer, post card, or infographic, reviewed here. Use these in conjunction with Earth Day to create local change.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Ozone Resource page - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): earth (224), earth day (105), environment (325), ozone (10)
In the Classroom
Students can use the resources in "Ozone Hole Watch" to determine the trends in the ozone either daily or over the years. Further research involving political, consumer, and environmental trends can bring insights into effects on the ozone layer. Using the wealth of material on the site, students can use the information to create a "Handbook of the Earth" (as an example) to understand how the ozone affects us in our current and future lives. Students can also work in groups and be assigned portions of the content to study. They can then present their findings to the rest of the class (using a multi-media presentation). Students can use this information in conjunction with environmental or Earth Day activities in or out of class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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GreenPrint - GreenPrint
Grades
K to 12tag(s): earth (224), earth day (105), ecology (138), environment (325)
In the Classroom
Share this idea with your principal for a school-wide ecology movement that will also save school funds. As a special project, be sure to have students track paper use before and after as a whole-school applied science project and keep a display on the lobby bulletin board to share the number of tress "saved"!GreenPrint is for non-commercial use and requires an internet connection. It installs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Check the Download page for computer system requirements. Read the Overview page for use instructions. Send the link to your Technology Department for permission to install the software and font.
Share this link on your class/school website or newsletter (if applicable). Many families are looking for ways to be more "green."
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Wasted - sciencemuseum
Grades
3 to 6tag(s): earth (224), earth day (105), environment (325), plastics (8)
In the Classroom
This website would be a great addition to your Earth Day lessons. Share it on a classroom computer cluster or as a center option to see how "green" your students can be. The class will truly enjoy this educational tool. Make it more meaningful by starting a recycling effort in your classroom or school, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Just For Kids - Solar Energy - The North Alabama Science Center
Grades
3 to 8tag(s): earth (224), earth day (105), energy (207), environment (325), sun (69), weather (201)
In the Classroom
Use this "kid-friendly" website to teach your students about the power of the Sun or as part of a class discussion on Global Warming or alternative energy. Challenge your students to investigate the current weather at the actual solar panel site (can you determine where it is?)and predict what the solar panels will do for the next 24 hours. Ask them to think of other ways and places where solar energy could be used.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Who's Got What? - sciencemuseum
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): coal (14), earth (224), earth day (105), electricity (92), energy (207), natural resources (58), oil (40), resources (107)
In the Classroom
What a fabulous resource for any class studying various forms of energy and natural resources found throughout the world. This would be an excellent addition to a science class studying about energy, or a geography class learning about the resources found on the various continents of the world. Even earth science classes can locate resources and explain how the geology of these areas provides the resources.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Word Search Puzzles - Primarygames.com
Grades
1 to 5tag(s): christmas (55), earth (224), earth day (105), easter (12), fall (14), holidays (142), kwanzaa (9), labor day (5), olympics (51), spelling (168)
In the Classroom
Share a search on your interactive whiteboard (use student FINGERS to circle the words!). Or make it a center as one of several options for spelling and vocabulary. Your students may ask you to include the link on your teacher web page so they can try some from home, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Catalog Choice - Ecology Center
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): advertising (33), earth (224), earth day (105), environment (325)
In the Classroom
If you teach about advertising techniques or information literacy, project both the .org and the .com sites on a screen or whiteboard so students can use a critical eye to see what the .com site is trying to do! Invite your science class to share the .ORG site at home and start an "uncatalog" drive to save some trees. Keep a running total of the number of catalogs your class has stopped and have students research the number of trees you have saved. As part of Earth Day or with your environmental club, share this resource with the entire school community. Encourage students to create tree-safe electronic "ads" for catalog choice (.ORG) that you can share on your class web page. Note: the site requires a free membership, so students should join together with a parent, especially since most catalogs are probably addressed to the adults in the house. Do not permit sharing of personal information (name and address) by students on the site!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OneWebDay
Grades
K to 12tag(s): internet safety (118), safety (92)
In the Classroom
Some ideas to celebrate the day: Send class emails to the web sites you find most useful to thank them for their contributions to your class' learning. Find a school web site in another town or country and email the webmaster to relay a "hello" to a classroom there. Make a class wiki to share all the positive things you gain from the web---and invite parents to join in, too. Have students keep a web "diary" for 24 hours, noting every time they use or benefit from someone else using the web (even the weather man on TV gets his/her information from the web!). Predict how many "web contacts" your class will have, then add them up to see how close you came. Plan a OneWebDay event for your school and share it on the OneWebDay site or with the local press. With primary grade students, take the time to point out which activities you do in class come from the web (these children see "the computer" as the genie of all things and do not distinguish between the web and a CD game). Make a giant "web" out of yarn and "connect" everyone on the playground. Send an email from your class to the principal, telling him/her about OneWebDay. What else can you think of?Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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World Climate - Robert Hoare
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): climate (95), earth (224), earth day (105), environment (325), temperature (34), weather (201)
In the Classroom
Use the data along with world maps (or Google Earth) for students to draw conclusions about geographic features and weather or to collect weather data over a time period to compare seasonal differences between northern and southern hemispheres. As part of an Earth Day or climate comparison activity, have students create a color-coded climate data "globe" in small groups, showing major cities and their weather data by color. You can use basketballs and sticky colored contact paper to cut out continents and climate zones, or have students make the map on an interactive whiteboard using a globe projection and highlghter tools in different colors. Older students can use the raw data as part of study of climate and cultural differences, environmental issues, or related topics.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teachers Try Science - TryScience
Grades
4 to 10tag(s): design (88), earth (224), earth day (105), energy (207)
In the Classroom
Get your interactive whiteboards ready for the design process . Students will love testing their designs. Have them hypothesize and keep track of what works and what doesn't.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Butterfly Curricula - The Butterfly Website- Rick Mikula
Grades
K to 3In the Classroom
As an anticipatory set or activator, try using a projector with a few of the images found at the "Photo Gallery" link at the left on this site. Your children will be very excited to OOOO and Ahhh at the beautiful pictures.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Zero Footprint Carbon Calculator - Zero Footprint.net
Grades
9 to 12This resource was featured in a recent New Teacher Hotline Podcast as one of the Tech Toolbox resources. Hear more about it on the podcast .
tag(s): carbon (23), carbon footprint (11), climate (95), climate change (70), earth (224), earth day (105), environment (325)
In the Classroom
Share this and the kids' calculator on your teacher web site and ask students to come up with a plan to decrease their carbon emissions as part of your unit on environmental issues. This could be a "real world" connection in geography study of natural resources or a science class on climate change.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Kids Page - MPCA
Grades
2 to 6tag(s): earth (224), earth day (105), environment (325), pollution (65)
In the Classroom
Use the printables as extra activities for Earth Day or to supplement your discussions of environmental concerns at any time of the year.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) Kids Page - US EPA Office of Water
Grades
2 to 8tag(s): conservation (128), earth (224), earth day (105), environment (325), water (134)
In the Classroom
Share these activities as part of your Earth Day plans or whenever you study about water and pollution. Be sure to include the link on your teacher web page so students can share the ideas at home, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Drinking Water and Ground Water Kids' Stuff - U.S. EPA
Grades
K to 12tag(s): conservation (128), earth (224), earth day (105), water (134), water cycle (32)
In the Classroom
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Recycling Lesson Plans - Pennsylvania Dept of Environmental Protection
Grades
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Recycling Paper - Zoom, PBS Kids
Grades
K to 3In the Classroom
Create a classroom scrap paper bin and use all of those scrap pieces of paper to recycle! Add your own creative pieces. Place the link on the classroom homepage and have students try this at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Vermicomposting (Making Good Use of Garbage) - NIEHS Kids
Grades
2 to 5tag(s): earth (224), earth day (105), environment (325), worms (5)
In the Classroom
This is a great site to share on a projector and read together while studying worms or the environment. What a wonderful way to bring Earth Day to a level students can participate in!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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