Earth Day Activities (6-8)

• These Earth Day resources provide writing prompts that stimulate social and emotional connections to nature, vocabulary cards with images, and art activities.
  
• All resources are adjustable, downloadable, and easy to share online, making them a great choice for Earth Day or any other time of the year!
  

Positives

• The vocabulary cards can be displayed in the classroom, used in presentations, or assigned to students to fill in themselves.
• The writing prompts will provide students with a number of things to reflect on and express their feelings about.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• You will need to make a copy of the files before working with them.
• The art file can be printed off for use in the classroom.
  

Differentiation

• Social studies and language arts classes could use the writing prompts for short writing assignments, discussion topics, or to make social-emotional connections to climate topics.
  
• Science classes can use the vocabulary cards to support lessons about ecology, ecosystems, climate change, or biodiversity.
• Have students pick a writing topic they like, then have them research it and present their findings and feelings about the topic to the class.
• Science students can use the vocabulary cards to help them with lessons about habitats, species, weather, climate change, and greenhouse gases.

This resource addresses the listed standards. To fully meet standards, search for more related resources.