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Topical Teaching Resources

Earth Day Topical Teaching ResourcesWhat Does This Pack Include?

This pack has been created by teachers, for teachers. In it you’ll find high quality teaching resources to help you and your students celebrate this worldwide annual event, which is held to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

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Grades 3-5 Pre-K – Grade 2 Pre-K – Grade 6

Explore the background behind Earth Day and learn why this event is celebrated around the world.

Learn about how long it takes for waste to break down and decompose.

Discover what a carbon footprint is and the impact it can have on the environment.

REFERENCE SHEET:

Pre-K - Grade 6

POSTERS:

Happy Earth Day! Earth Day (Color) Earth Day (Black and White)

LESSON PLANS:

Pre-K - Grade 6 Pre-K - Grade 6

Students are to carry out an experiment on how much carbon dioxide is produced from different cars.

Students are to consider how green their school is and to think about other ways they can help the environment.

THINKITS: ACTIVITY SHEETS AND ANSWERS:

Pre-K – Grade 6 Grades 3-5

Discuss how using different forms of transport can help the environment. Encourage students to create their own Earth Day acrostic.

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THINKITS THINKITS LEARN SCREENS

Earth Resources - Content ID: 14578 Reusing and Recycling - Content ID: 14611 Tidy Today - Content ID: 22543

Discuss with your students all the non-renewable resources they can think of.

Discuss why reusing and recycling are similar and what materials can be recycled.

Explore the number of ways we can reduce how humans impact the environment.

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How does it help the environment if kids walk ride the school bu.s, or carpool to school?

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How does it help the environment if kids walk ride the school bu.s, or carpool to school?

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Write your own Earth Day acrostic!

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Write your own Earth Day acrostic!

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ave respect for all that Earth gives us.

� Earth Day - How Green Is Your School? � Lesson Plan

Materials • online access to the EducationCity Mind Map tool• Carbon Footprint Fact Sheet; one for each student pair• paper and pencils; one for each student pair• chart paper and markers

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Lesson Preperation (5 minutes) Organize the students into pairs. Distribute the Carbon Footprint Fact Sheet to each pair.

Lesson (30 minutes) Introduction Discuss the information included on the Carbon Footprint Fact Sheet. Talk with the students about the importance of reducing their own Carbon Footprint and how they may already be trying to do this.

Procedure: Part I Have students work in pairs to consider how green the school is. You may need to direct the discussion with some prompts, such as Does the school recycle? Can students grow their own vegetables at school? Have them record their answers on a sheet of paper.

Part II Have each student group present their ideas to the class. This information can be recorded using the EducationCity Mind Map tool.

Conclusion Discuss with students any ideas they may have that could further develop the school's green status. For example, could they promote a walk-to-school week, or have a fundraiser to develop an area of land into a fore st or school garden area?

Assesment (15 minutes) Have the students continue to work in pairs to make a poster and advertise their idea for how to make the school greener. Informally assess students' understanding of the topic as they complete this task. If time permits, have the pairs present their posters to class.

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