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Earth Day cultural activities for Microsoft Word
Arbor Day Poems
These are Arbor Day Poems that I picked out for the various grades in my school to recite during our Arbor Day Celebration. They also come with a free Arbor Day speech that you can download free on my account.
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1st - 6th
Little Artist Lesson Monet Lily Pads Project
Students will use simple shapes and concepts while learning how to create their own version of French artist Claude Monet's Lily Pad paintings. Basic materials that most classrooms have are the only things necessary to accomplish great results! This lesson is one I use with my kindergarten classes; but it could easily be used with older grades. It is amazing how the students enjoy painting the pond water and seeing the results of the oil pastel resist.
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K
Toilet Paper Roll Crafts: Make the Midgard Serpent
Let's learn about the scary sea serpent. Then raid the recycling bin for toilet paper rolls to make a mini-Midgard Serpent! Vikings told stories of Jörmungandr (Old Norse for “huge monster”). It has the name of the Midgard Serpent because it is so large, it can wrap all the way around the Earth and bite its own tail. It moves along the bottom of the ocean and causes waves of destruction and even earthquakes when it tightens its coils. It is one of three terrible children of the trickster Loki a
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PreK - 3rd
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Environmental Awareness
When I started the nature unit one year, students told me they were sick of hearing about reducing, reusing, and recycling from a bunch of teachers and administrators who drove SUVs and didn't have recycling bins in classrooms. The next year, I was able to run one of my classes without printing any paper and I was driving a Mercedes fueled by used vegetable oil.
Don't be afraid to ask your students for advice. They HAVE been talked at their entire lives about Earth Day being every day and all
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4th - 11th, Staff
Simple Life Web Search
Some people make a choice to live a simpler life. Sometimes, the rest of us look at them as oddballs. This assignment, which was created a long time ago, was also kind of an oddball, since I could not find a place for it for every year. When I revised it, several links had to be updated, and some of the questions had to be changed to reflect how the world had changed.
The idea was that technology could become too much, maybe like in a dystopian Brave New World. Could we, as humans, avoid turni
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5th - 11th
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Earth Day WebQuest and Analysis
This no prep, inquiry-driven activity may be used in class face-to-face or virtually with distance learning to celebrate Earth Day. Students will use the provided links to nonfiction articles about the origins of and celebrations of the holiday today to answer the questions which follow. Additionally, there are opinion questions asked at the end of each section to ensure understanding and to foster critical thinking. To this end, they are asked to put the answers into their own words to help th
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9th - 12th
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Japanese Bonsai tree making
Japanese Bonsai making for students and beyond.
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Not Grade Specific
Leadership questions about "NOAH"
This one page will acompany the movie "NOAH" in order to teach highschoolers about leadership
PG-13
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9th - 12th, Staff
Arbor Day Speech
This Arbor Day Speech goes along with the Arbor Day Poems that were read before an Arbor Day tree planting ceremony.
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K - 8th
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