45. 6 Earth Day Projects for Elementary Teachers and Homeschool Parents
Naturally Teaching Elementary: A Podcast for Teachers and Homeschool Families · Victoria Zablocki, Elementary Teacher turned Outdoor Educator
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Show Notes
Earth Day is coming up in just under a month and it's a great holiday to incorporate science activities into your celebrations! Many Earth Day activity lists suggest the same ideas over and over, so I'm here to give you some unique projects to do with your learners this year.
Tune in to hear descriptions for 6 Earth Day projects aligned with Next Generation Science Standards for grades K-5. During the episode I share the standard that inspired the project, how the project relates to Earth Day, and a description of how to implement the project in your classroom or at home.
Make sure you listen all the way through the episode; you may find yourself inspired to adapt one of these projects or use one for a different grade level.
Earth Day projects describe in this episode include:
- Kindergarten: Designing trash picker-uppers
- 1st Grade: Solving the problem of staying warm in a car
- 2nd Grade: Designing a way to clean water
- 3rd Grade: Creating a wetland mitigation model
- 4th Grade: Developing non-renewable and renewable resource saving punch cards
- 5th Grade: Participating in the iNaturalist citizen science project
Resources mentioned 💚
- Episode 6: 5 Outdoor Education Safety Tips for Teaching Outside
- The Day the Trash Came Out to Play by David M. Beadle, illustrated by Laurie A. Faust
- The Mess That We Made by Michelle Lord, illustrated by Julia Blattman
- Earth Day Engineers Water Mini Unit for 2nd Grade (STEM and ELA Activities)
- Earth Day Engineers Habitat Mini Unit for 3rd Grade (STEM and ELA Activities)
- Episode 15: 6 Citizen Science Projects for Elementary Students
- 18 Kids Earth Day Books to Inspire Elementary Students This Year
- A List of Earth Day Activities Elementary Students Will Love This Year
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