Earth Day Activities

Each blade of grass 🌱, Each honey tree 🐝

Are you celebrating Earth Day at your school? If so, here are great resources for communicating the importance of caring for our planet.

Enjoy! 🐞

💨 Wind Energy

Visit a wind farm

🌊 Beach Cleanup

Find a beach to clean up

🐝 Native Pollinators

Build a butterfly garden

Check out earthday.org's great toolkits!

From pollution to fashion, and many more. Each toolkit provides resources and outlines specific ways to be involved with Earth Day activities happening around the world.

4 Ways to Explore Poetry on Earth Day

One of my favorite things about teaching is helping my students through a difficult text or a challenging writing task and seeing that moment when their light bulbs turn on and they get it. Poetry can be a particular struggle for teachers and students alike, but it can also build students' stamina for difficult texts and lead to some gratifying "aha" moments.

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Everyone can be a citizen scientist!

Check out this harvest of ideas for how to turn your students into budding citizen scientists! (puns intended 😜)

I am the Earth and the Earth is me 🌎 I am the Earth and the Earth is me 🌎

Each blade of grass 🌱, Each honey tree 🐝

How We Can Help! How We Can Help!

💨 Wind Energy

🌊 Beach Cleanup

🐝 Native Pollinators