Celebrating Earth Day in the classroom

Promote discussion about Earth Day in the secondary classroom with these lesson plans and activity ideas

Tes Resources Team

Earth Day writing marked on a calendar 22 April

Innovative activities and lesson ideas to prompt thoughtful discussion about Earth Day

Taking place on 22 April every year, Earth Day is a worldwide movement that offers an ideal opportunity to get students thinking about their environmental footprint both in and outside of the classroom, and this year the theme is 'invest in our planet'.

To help you to enthuse your learners, we've picked a selection of secondary resources on the environment.

Earth Day Maths Recycling
Elsie99

Earth Day Maths Recycling

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This Earth Day Maths resource includes 6 worksheets on environmental facts and figures about the world. Students are asked to read the environmental information at the top of each worksheet and answer 6 questions about it. The questions are designed to make students think about the huge impact peopl...
The history of Earth Day - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
MariaPht

The history of Earth Day - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text

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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the origins of Earth Day and how the day has managed to become the biggest secular observance in the world. After carefully reading the text, students are...
Earth Day Escape Room - April- Fun Facts- Recycle - Print and go!
Think Tank

Earth Day Escape Room - April- Fun Facts- Recycle - Print and go!

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The Earth Day Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode fun and interesting facts about Earth Day. The Earth Day Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. Students are given a secret code name and sent...
Spotlight From Space PowerPoint presentation
worldslargestlesson

Spotlight From Space PowerPoint presentation

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Supporting PPT for Spotlight From Space lesson plan. In this project, students explore how satellites help us to understand and learn about our changing world. Students will: Identify the characteristics of and build a model satellite Explore how scientists use imagery from space to understand th...
Earth Day 2024
Krazikas

Earth Day 2024

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This resource contains a fully editable, 35-slide PowerPoint presentation on Earth Day. You may also be interested in: **[Earth Day 110-Slide Presentation](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/earth-day-lesson-assembly-presentation-70-slides-11540943)** This is a fully editable and inform...
Earth Day Assembly KS3 KS4 Editable PPT
SchooledResources

Earth Day Assembly KS3 KS4 Editable PPT

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This informative and thought-provoking assembly explores climate change, pollution and the effects of plastic. It is aimed at KS3 and KS4 students and discusses Earth Day and what they can do to help the planet. **Slides:** 1. Introduction 2. What is Earth Day? 3. 2024 Theme: Planet VS Plastics 4. ...