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Write from the perspective of a chosen animal about how humans treat the Earth (writing portion), and draw the animal with a speech bubble showing what it might say (drawing portion).
Earth Day Writing Prompts for Students Celebrate Earth Day with this engaging writing activity for students. Perfect for early learning centers , preschools, homeschools, and elementary classrooms in grades K-6, these writing prompts teach kids about Earth Day in a creative way. Students will love discussing different…
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.
Research an assigned or chosen topic card, select one of five prompt types (Descriptive, How To/Sequence, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solution), and complete one informative-writing step per day culminating in a final piece submitted for teacher assessment.
Provide bulletin-board posters teaching the reduce/reuse/recycle framework for Earth Day, usable also for sorting activities and writing prompts.
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…
Complete short (10-15 minute) daily digital mini-lessons for each day of April, each built from an intro slide plus activity slides with writing/discussion prompts tied to a themed observance day (e.g., One Cent Day, Peanut Butter Jelly Day, Earth Day, Talk Like Shakespeare Day); can be completed digitally in edit…
Write about one Earth Day promise they will make to help protect the planet, then draw a picture of themselves keeping that promise.
Forever June Digital Design If you're a classroom teacher looking for un Earth Day activities for all students, or a homeschool teacher looking for unique Earth Day Resources or a parent of children who would benefit from creative ways to teach about this holiday, my series of Earth Day Worksheets are a fun and useful…
Write about ways people can hurt the planet and how to make it better, then draw a picture showing the Earth before and after people help.
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…
Students write about the eco-friendly features their green dream home would have, then draw a picture of that home showing Earth-friendly elements such as solar panels, gardens, or recycling bins.
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.
Write about ways to help take care of the Earth and what small daily actions can make a difference; then draw a picture of themselves helping the Earth.
Forever June Digital Design PLEASE NOTE- THIS PRODUCT IS A DIGITAL, PRINTABLE FILE. NO PHYSICAL PRINT WILL BE SENT. THIS IS NOT AN EDITABLE TEMPLATE. Included in this listing are 5 high resolution jpeg files- sized at 8.5X11 inches, with Create an Earth Day Character Drawing and Development Pages, a short story…
An Earth Day-themed two-part writing and drawing prompt in which students reflect on and write about the experience of planting a garden with their family.
Develop creative and sequential writing skills through an Earth-Day/plant-themed writing activity.
Provide a set of Earth-Day-themed creative writing and drawing prompts to engage students in thinking/writing about environmental stewardship.
Free download Sketch a picture showing one way to protect the planet, then write a caption explaining the picture.
Students write a short story imagining how a piece of 'magic trash' turns into a treasure that helps the Earth, then draw the magic trash both before and after its transformation, showing how it helps people or the planet.
Read informational passages on pollution history and the Industrial Revolution, answer reading-response questions, define and write about the four R's, draw/write ways to help the earth, sing an Earth Day song, and complete writing prompts and a word search.
List reduce/reuse/recycle ideas for two mascot characters; write in a heart shape how to make the world cleaner; solve an Earth Day word search (with answer key provided) and create their own word search; write a newspaper article about Earth Day; decide fact vs. fiction for pollution statistics; write short responses…
Complete an 'EARTH' acrostic poem; review a word bank of Earth-related vocabulary (e.g. magnificent, environment, extinct, hazard, habitat, ecosystem, renewable, resource); write two Earth-themed cinquain poems following a structured adjective/verb/phrase/synonym pattern; complete an 'Earth Word Map' (write a…