Earth Day Virtual Field Trip for Middle and High Schoolers

Explore Earth Day with your middle school or high school students this April 22nd and learn about conservation, global footprint, and history through a virtual field trip including videos, podcasts, poetry analysis and so much more!

This virtual field trip about Earth Day is the perfect way for middle and high school students to explore the history, importance, and impact of Earth Day. Through this interactive, engaging lesson, students will gain a deeper understanding of the Global Footprint, the history of Earth Day, and why it is important to recognize this day every year. This virtual field trip is perfect for distance learning, as it contains videos, research activities, and interactive quizzes that will help students develop a greater appreciation for the environment and the importance of conserving resources. This Earth Day virtual field trip is the perfect way to get your students excited about Earth Day, and the perfect way to make the most of distance learning.

This is the PDF printable version of this great resource. Ideal for classrooms where students share devices or if teacher plays video and field trip content from a big screen and students can complete activities are their own papers.

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This product includes all of the following plus more:

1. Free product code for teachers (a 2 Dollar Value from my store)
2. Teacher instructions and differentiation ideas
3. Teacher extension and idea guide
4. Bloom's Taxonomy guiding questions for the lesson/unit
5. Student instructions
6. Virtual Field Trip go page (links to field trip activities) lots of great links!
7. Trip Overview Summary and prediction Page
8. Pre-learning page- True or False Quiz
9. Video Notes Guiding Questions - The First Earth Day CNN News broadcast
10. Video Notes Guiding Questions - Neil deGrasse Tyson Podcast Video
11. Match-up fact/tradition to correct country
12. Video questions page- summary of Carnival
13. Poetry Analysis to Earth Day poem by Reese Witherspoon "Home"
14. Mini-report paragraph writing- Impact of Earth photo on Earth Day
15. Compare and contrast- Earth Day in different countries
16. Creative Writing research writing- newspaper from the first Earth Day
17. Global Footprint calculation
18. Global Footprint Analysis worksheet page
19. Earth Day summary and on the map page
20. Virtual Field Trip learning Summary page
21. Student post learning check (true or false)
22. Student assessment/learning check
23. Grading Rubric
24. Answer Key
25. Assessment Answers
26. Worksheet answers page 2
27. Worksheet answers page 3
28. Teacher guide
29. Connect with me pages to learn more and TeachWithBri
30. Credits and learn more pages
31. Terms of use and extra info
32. +MORE!

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