Earth Day Handprint Papercraft – Kindergarten Craft
Add handprints and personal decoration to an Earth Day art template.
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Add handprints and personal decoration to an Earth Day art template.
Discuss nature vs. pollution images, learn Earth Day history, learn the Three R's and climate change basics, complete a guided worksheet activity, and do written/creative activities.
Includes: 45-minute lesson plan (learning objectives, standards alignment, materials, lesson procedure with timing)
Color in printed Earth Day illustrations and slogans (e.g., 'Save the Earth', 'Plant a Tree', 'Go Green').
This resource is a music activity for Earth Day. Students will work to plant a tree for Earth Day by selecting the correct musical patterns on each slide. As students get the answer correct, their tree comes closer to being planted.
Add handprints and personal decoration to an Earth Day art template.
Find themed vocabulary words hidden horizontally, vertically, and diagonally in word-search grids; color or circle a hidden shape in each puzzle.
Includes: puzzle-direction instructions page · 6 themed word-search puzzle pages (Set One) · answers page
Practice recognizing and locating Earth Day/environmental vocabulary within a word search grid.
Includes: page 2: second word search grid with the same word list repeated
Fill in a personalized cover page (name, pronoun, season, ocean/state/city choice); track daily independent reading (book title, genre, level, % correct, computer program use) for a school week; fix five 'Crazy Sentences' (one per weekday) containing capitalization, punctuation, and spelling errors, on an Earth Day theme; and sort a…
Includes: personalized student info page (name/date/teacher/season/ocean/state/city) with daily task-completion and reading-log tables · 'Oops! Crazy Sentences For Earth Day!' 5-day sentence-editing activity (Monday-Friday, each with an Earth Day themed sentence containing errors to fix)
Add handprints and personal decoration to an Earth Day art template.
Solve riddles about recycling, nature and caring for the planet.
Sketch a picture showing one way to protect the planet, then write a caption explaining the picture.
Includes: 'Teaching Tips' page (suggested classroom uses: morning work, homework, extension activity, reading/writing center, bulletin board display; recommended… · 1-page 'You Can Help, Too!' sketch-and-caption writing activity
Add a handprint and write five reasons you love the Earth.
Part 1: students write a short story imagining they are a recycling bin for a whole day, describing what they see, hear, and hold as people use them on Earth Day. Part 2: students draw themselves as a recycling bin, showing what kinds of items people put in and where the bin is placed.
Includes: Part 1: writing prompt page ('Imagine you are a recycling bin for a whole day! What do you see, hear, and hold as people use you on Earth Day?') · Part 2: drawing activity page ('Draw yourself as a recycling bin! Show what kinds of items people put in you and where you are placed.')
A cut-and-sort activity where students sort items into Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle categories for Earth Day.
Includes: blank sort page with Reduce/Reuse/Recycle column headers · sort page with definitions under each column heading · answer key page with column headers
Answer multiple-choice style personal questions (e.g., does your family recycle, favorite continent, one thing to reduce trash, favorite root vegetable, flower, fruit, glasses of water per day, word to describe Earth), copy/paste the matching images onto a glyph board slide, adjust size/rotation/layering, and write a short reflection.
Play bingo with Earth Day pictures and vocabulary.
Read a short sentence (e.g. 'A girl plants a tree.', 'Recycle cans in the bin.') and draw a picture that matches it, across 4 pages of 9 sentences each.
Includes: Read and Draw 1 (9 sentences) · Read and Draw 2 (9 sentences) · Read and Draw 3 (9 sentences)
Read a multi-paragraph nonfiction passage about Earth Day; answer short-answer comprehension questions and true/false questions requiring justification from the text; explain vocabulary/idioms in the student's own words; then write 2 full-length essay(s) giving a personal opinion, comparison, or creative response related to Earth Day.
Includes: 1 reading passage: nonfiction informational article on Earth Day, including quoted commentary from named interviewees/experts · comprehension question set: short-answer inference questions, true/false questions requiring textual justification, vocabulary/definition-in-own-words exercises · writing activity: 2 extended essay prompt(s) (1) reflective essay on personal Earth Day participation, 2) argumentative essay on whether Earth Day drives…
Complete a maze, then draw pictures for target vocabulary words found in a word box at the bottom of the page; optionally color the scene.
Includes: Instructions page (3 steps: complete maze, draw words, color optional) · 1 maze themed 'Taking Care of the Earth' with word box (Safe, Help, Respect, Protect) · Thumbnail answer/reference page showing 6 pages
Earth Day Bingo Game for Early Learners Celebrate Earth Day with this fun and educational bingo game for young students! Children will love learning about protecting the planet while playing this engaging group activity. With 24 unique bingo cards and markers for calling out terms, it can be played with individuals, small groups, or a…
Read each printed sentence (e.g. "Pick up trash, stay clean.", "Recycle cans in the bin.") and draw a picture matching it, across 4 worksheet pages of 9 sentences each.
Includes: Read and Draw worksheet 1 (9 sentences) · Read and Draw worksheet 2 (9 sentences)
Color/choose one option from each category (location, who you were with, a challenging situation, next steps) to build a story premise, write a narrative with a beginning/middle/end and a conflict, then use a checklist to check capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
Includes: teacher instructions/extension-ideas page · choice-board planning page (location/who/challenge/next-steps) · writing page with editing checklist (capitalization, punctuation, spelling)
Watch a corresponding YouTube video, then complete the paired worksheet: sort items into 'trash' vs. recyclable bins, decide whether an item should be reduced or reused and explain why, complete a vocabulary matching activity, solve a word search, write in response to prompts, create an Earth Day slogan, and color a sheet.
Includes: Trash or Treasure sorting worksheet (A and B differentiated versions) · Reduce or Reuse decision worksheet (A and B differentiated versions) · vocabulary/word matching activity
Add handprints and personal decoration to an Earth Day art template.