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Earth Day projects for Microsoft Word
Earth Day Homework Project
Are your students learning about the importance of recycling? Are you looking for a fun, yet environmentally friendly homework project for your students to complete during the week of Earth Day (April 22)? Send home this project for your students to complete for homework instead of the traditional homework! Students will have a BLAST digging through their recycle bins or trash for items to recycle so they can create something new! This project includes.....
1. Instructions for students and
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1st - 6th
3D initials Art Project
Perfect lesson for 6th-12th grade students. It is an intensely fun project that your intense art students will love.The lesson uses recycled materials and beautiful collage of scraps of decorative paper.
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8th - 12th
Also included in:Â 28 lessons and activities: Beginning HS Art (9th to 12th grade)
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Be Like a Tree 101
Be Like a Tree 101 is an interactive series of seven short videos with original songs describing different aspects of trees: trees in history, the many blessings we get from trees, dangers of wildfires, love of trees, the secret lives of trees, roots in the underground, and the many different types of trees. Each video is about 2 minutes long and the whole series takes about 15 minutes. This would make the video ideal for a presentation to school children (grades 1-8) or environmental gatherings
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Not Grade Specific
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NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
ECOLOGY CHOICE BOARD
ecology, projects, pick any three topics, differentiated instruction high school, upper middle school. self paced project, in class presentations can be added to this. students can develop a class wide rubric to use. Post the rubric on the board and have the students grade their fellow students as other students are presenting.
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7th - 12th
Earth Day Project- Trash to Treasure
In this project, students will be inspired to take everyday household items that are normally discarded or viewed as trash and turn them into treasure! Students will work through the process of brainstorming, planning, and ultimately creating a product that is art, a toy, or can be used. The creativity that students will display in their final product creations is amazing!
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2nd - 5th
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NATURAL RESOURCES UNIT (Extremely Detailed)
Included: A Pre-test (and key), 5 Full Length Multiple day Lessons(complete with worksheets and adaptations), A Post-test(and key), AND a Culminating Activity (Time Capsule)
Lesson Sequence: 1-Natural Resources (what are they), 2- Renewable verses Nonrenewable, 3- We Need Trees (The importance and use of trees for useful products), 4- Reuse and Re-purposing, 5- Composting (complete with quiz)
**Takes approximately 3-4 weeks to complete.
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3rd - 6th
"Trashion" Recycle Redesign Project
Students will make a clothing item out of recycled products. The guidelines and ideas for their project is included.
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7th - 12th
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Fun Earth Science Lesson: PBL Earthquake Building Design Lab
Guiding questions for project based learning lab where students work together and try to design a building that can withstand an earthquake. Fun project that builds class community and utilizes students creativity skills. Can be an ongoing project that can last a couple of classes.
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3rd - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
Endangered Species Adoption Google Slide Presentation
Students will create a Google Slide presentation about an endangered species featured on the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) website. One of the endangered species, featured in one of the student presentation, will become the class mascot.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Environment Friendly House Project | PBL | Rubric Included
In this project, students will work in pairs to create a 3D floor plan of an environmentally friendly house. They will learn important terms such as energy efficiency, environment-friendly, energy conservation, renewable energy, and nonrenewable energy and will apply these concepts to their project.Not only will students learn about the importance of energy conservation and environmental sustainability, but they will also have the opportunity to plan and build their own 3D floor plan! They will
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3rd - 12th
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Climate Change
Climate change: it´s happening even though skeptics like to disagree. It is a scary reality that faces us now, our students, the future. In a non-scary way, though, this is a three day mini unit with a project based learning hand out for research, a geography refresher, a teach us four square for brainstorming, a presentation rubric, and a wrap up. It really is non prep for you as educator and also incredibly meaningful for students to randomly choose from deforestation, burning of fossil fu
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5th - 8th
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Habitat Project
This comes with directions for a shoe box animal habitat project, letter to parents, directions for a written and oral report on chosen/given animal, and a scoring rubric guide/explanation.
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1st - 3rd
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4th Grade service Project
This is an activity I do with my students every year during the month of April. I use it to celebrate Earth Day as we learn about many conservation tactics and study many "issues" within our world at this time. we talk a lot about how one act by one person can make a huge difference. Each student picks one service project to so and then present on. At the end, Ia dd up on a poster all that we as a 4th grade did to show students what an impact we had on our community. For example in the past stu
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2nd - 7th
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Human-Environment Interaction Project
Project can be used in conjunction with the Five Themes in Geography. After researching an environmental issue, students create a poster that focuses on the behaviors that are creating the problem and those that are helping to resolve the problem.
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6th - 12th, Staff
Conserving Water Project | PBL |
Our Conserving Water PBL Project provides an engaging and interactive way for students to learn about the importance of water conservation. By researching various household water use activities, students will gain a deeper understanding of the amount of water used for everyday tasks and how small changes in behavior can make a big difference in conserving this precious resource.Our project is easy to set up and includes all the materials needed. With clear instructions and a user-friendly format
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6th - 12th
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Non-Profit Organization Semester Project
With busy lives, it can be hard to find time to volunteer. However, the benefits of volunteering are enormous to you, your family, and your community. The right match can help you find friends, reach out to the community, learn new skills, and even advance your career.
With this project, students will create their own nonprofit organization to help their community. They must choose a relevant cause in their community. Then they must create an organization that supports the community in the caus
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9th - 12th
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CLIMATE CHANGE and Consumption: Create a Sustainable School
This is a terrific stand alone or within a unit on Earth, climate change, sustainability, for Earth Day, technology class, or for sub plans. Included is the activity sheet itself to first brainstorm ways to make your own school sustainable, research the top 50 green schools in the U.S. and take notes on the ideas most useful to students' own school, a list of possible ways to implement more sustainability, as well as culminating in the creation of a Minecraft city which is sustainable and with
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6th - 8th
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Recycling/Waste Management Project
Inspired by NPR's Radio Lab "Poop Train" podcast. Perfect for project-based learning. A great project for middle school or high school science classes. Students are provided a variety of "common waste" to research. They are then prompted to share what they found in multiple ways. This project can be incorporated into units of study for sustainability, environmental issues, living environment, Earth Day, and more. Many ITSE standards are incorporated as students are prompted to research and prese
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6th - 12th
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Reduce-Reuse-Recycle Sentence Sort
Students sort the given sentences to fall under the categories of reducing, reusing, or recycling. Category labels with definitions are included. I had my students glue their sorts onto large construction paper to display and grade.
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1st - 5th
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The Importance of Conserving Water- Global
This lesson was designed to raise awareness of our water shortage crisis around the globe. Using the "Canned Question" ESOL strategy, the students are asked to answer/perform various tasks that get increasingly harder. This document includes the lesson plan, suggested materials/videos, assessment rubrics, and group tasks and roles. The students will answer questions about their own water usage, watch a video demonstrating how other countries/people live without water/without clean water, and des
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4th - 6th
"Sustainable Solution Inc." Project - sustainability and profitability!
Project-based learning about solution to climate change: in this project students develop a business plan and start a company specializing in designing and building solutions to climate change. Students are also challenged to design a logo, name and location where their company will do their important work. Finally, they will pitch their idea to a fictional local government to land a long-term contract!
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in:Â Ultimate Climate Change Collection
Earth Day Recycling Receptacles
Students will be able to recognize the ecological impact of Earth Day by participating in constructing their own mini recycling receptacles that they will fill with recycled materials such as paper, plastic and metal and therefore re-purposing these items and giving them new life. They will also write a title and a mini story for a newspaper article to campaign for recycling. This project is done in honor of Earth Day which occurs in April. They will raise awareness among their peers and for the
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K - 1st
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Plant Growth Project - Growing a Sunflower with Water vs. Water and Diet Soda
I created this experiment to give students a hands-on experience with growing their own sunflowers. In doing the experiment, students learn about the role that water plays in the germination and growth of a flower. Download comes with 2 pages of purpose, standards & pedagogical approaches; 3 pages of worksheets for student work, including project instructions, research guiding questions & observation sheet; teacher appendix with results from my trial of the study for reference.
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4th - 7th
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Make the World a Better Place- Environmental Issues Project
This editable project is meant to be part of a unit that looks at environmental issues and what can be done to solve them. It encourages students to choose an issue and create some sort of advertisement, poster, or display that would be presented to the class, school, or even to the community. The purpose is to tell others simple ways they can help tackle this issue, thereby making the world a better place. Before they do their project, students fill out a prep sheet that helps focus their th
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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