Spring is in the air and it's a great time to remind students of ways that they can continue to take care of the Earth and make a difference. Earth Day is a great celebration of this. In response to that, here are 7 Earth Day activities that integrate STEM and technology to commemorate this day.
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Earth Day Activities #1: Caring For Our Earth Interactive Notebook
Ditch your paper notebooks for a few days and have students explore and record their thinking with my colorful slides. There are 21 editable templates that you can edit and share in Google Slides. Students will define important vocabulary, a podcast to listen to, make observations about a graph and more!
Click here to grab this lesson for your class!
Earth Day Activities #2: Recycling Plant Makerspace Lesson
Help students understand the benefits of recycling and learn how it works. By using the collection of objects and labeled bins, students will build their own recycling plant. The goal is to have students create a system to help sort the items into the correct categories.
Click here to grab this lesson for your class!
Earth Day Activities #3: Our Planet- Netflix Series
Learn more about our Earth and different species from around the world and how their lives are impacted by humans. It is a series, but you can definitely watch out of order to meet your classroom needs.
Earth Day Activities #4: Taking Care of Earth Reading Comprehension
With these graphic organizers for Earth Day, it will help students record their thinking and find text that is relevant to Earth Day. There are printable and digital options that will work on any device.
Use any resource you have on hand to accompany these graphic organizers. Epic! Books is a great place to start! It's a free-for-teachers online digital library that has books for any occasion and every learner. Have access to eBooks, read-to-me, audio and videos.
Earth Day Activities #5: Earth Day Engineer Inspiration
Use any building materials available to recreate the images from the inspiration sheet. The one page of images look great printed out, in both color and black and white. Or save paper by viewing the images digitally.
Earth Day Activities #6: The Brains On! Podcast
Podcasts are a great way for students to build their visualization and comprehension skills. The Brains On! podcast is highly engaging and education. It's a lot like listening to episodes of Bill Nye the Science Guy. You can listen directly online from your computer, or connect your phone by using any podcast app. Episodes that are perfect for Earth Day are:
- Soil: Can you dig it?
- Keeping Water Healthy: One Clue at a Time
- Thunder, Lightning and Tornadoes: Where do they come from?
- The Future of Fuel and the Problem with Exhaust
Earth Day Activities #7: Bundle of Activities
Need even more inspiration? Check out this fun bundle of STEM & Technology activities to use with your students. Some of the activities above are included as well as others the help celebrate Earth Day. Everything can be printed or shared digitally to fit your sharing needs.
Resources Mentioned in this post:
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Recycling Sorting Activity | STEM Challenge | Digital & Printable
- Earth Day Engineer Inspiration Board
- Earth Day Digital Interactive Notebook
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How do you integrate technology in your Earth Day instruction? Feel free to direct message me on Instagram, @naomimeredith_ and I would love to chat with you!
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