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Teachnology

Teachnology: Earth Day Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teachers in search of extra resources to help educate students on Earth Day will find an abundance of worksheets, lesson plans, activities and much more from Teachnology.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Earth Day Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] How can you treat the earth with more respect? Check out this resource featuring links to elementary activities to celebrate Earth Day. You will find word searches, crossword puzzles, reading...
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Planet Pals

Planet Pals: Earth Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This PlanetPals.com site provides the "Greatest Earth Day Pages Ever!" Includes activities, teaching aides, earth science and history, and more.
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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Tceq: Lesson Plans & Resources for Teaching Environmental Sciences [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A large collection of lesson plans on environmental topics. The lessons are broken up into the broad categories of air, water, and waste, and look at issues around quality, pollution, conservation, and recycling. There are activities for...
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Dltk Kids: Earth Day Concentration

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A simple picture matching game with Earth Day-related images. Play by yourself, or with up to four players, and keep score throughout the game.
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Read Works

Read Works: Earth Helpers

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about working together to make the Earth a better place. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Earth's Birthday Project: Educating About the Earth

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site is loaded with science activities for elementary students. There are role plays, recipes, dances, writing exercises and craft ideas. You can also raise you own luna moths, praying mantids, ladybugs or carnivorous plants. Lots...
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BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Physical Processes: Earth, Sun, and Moon

For Students 3rd - 5th
Help Sarah Jane and her team put the solar system's planets back in order. Following the activity, read more about the sun, the Earth, and its moon, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Astronomy: The Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive tutorial students will learn what causes the seasons, diurnal cycles and how the constellations move through the sky. Learn we are able to see other planets and how astronomical events affected life on the Earth.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Earth and Space Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th
This resource provides information about Earth and space. In addition, there is a quiz provided.
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Google

Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Create Your Own Google Logo

For Teachers 4th - 9th
A set of three activities where students learn how to use the programming language Scratch to create Google logos, including ones for Valentine's Day and one for Earth Day.
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Other

Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: Let's Get Carried Away!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This hands-on science activity allows students to use a stream table to learn about the processes of erosion and stream-bed formation. Students will understand the effect of water speed on erosion rate and stream formation.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Let the Sun Shine In

For Students 6th - 8th
Students graph data reflecting time of day and length of shadow, and then draw conclusions about Earth's seasons and position in relation to the Sun.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Earth Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture helps celebrate Earth Day by recreating a world map with a theme based around trees and a green, natural image. Earth Day is held every year on April 22 to help promote environmental awareness.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Our Solar System: A Day on Earth

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on how the Earth's tilt on its axis, its rotation, and its orbit around the Sun give us a 24-hour day, a 365-day year, and our seasons.
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Read Works

Read Works: Day to Night

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a typical day in the life of a boy named Justin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Longest and Shortest Days

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the longest and shortest days of the year in the United States. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Siemens Stem Day: Life Science: The Time of Our Life [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners will learn about ancient organisms as they create a timeline showing when they appeared on Earth.
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Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: By All Indications

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A hands-on science experiment where students test acidity levels by using red cabbage extract and learn the acid levels of known and unknown liquids.
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Other

Laura Candler: Green Court Claims: Are Green Companies Really Green? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this instructional activity, students investigate claims that companies make about their products and business practices they use to imply that they are environmentally friendly. Students work in groups to research the claim they...
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Other

Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: Impact!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students complete a hands-on experiment making craters by dropping objects from different heights into flour. Students then explore the craters' differences, based on the objects that were dropped to create them.
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Other

Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: Tragedy of the Commons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will play a game and explore the relationship between people and their environment and how people regulate their resources.
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Other

Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: How's the Weather? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students make their own weather station by using homemade version of real weather measurement equipment and use their equipment to make observations and predictions about the local weather.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Rotation of the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A KWL activity combined with a demonstration model. Students record their ideas and questions about why we have day and night. They then shine a flashlight (the Sun) on a rotating styrofoam ball (the Earth) and record their observations....

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