Paula's Place Teaching Resources: Earth Day

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World Environment Day - June 5th

World Environment Day
26 pages

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This World Environment Day PowerPoint is designed to share why and how we celebrate and acknowledge World Environment Day.

Share the PowerPoint and encourage discussion about the content and what we can do to make our planet the best place we can make it. There are recording templates to support the Powerpoint contained in the zip file.

These recording templates support the Powerpoint contained in the zip file.
• What do we need keep doing and what can we stop doing to make our planet a better place to be?
• Record words to describe World Environment Day
• Plus, minus and interesting ideas about our planet
• Alphabet Key – Our Planet
• What I see, I think and I wonder abut out planet
• Environment Day Fact Chart
• World Environment Day 3 facts, 2 opinions and 1 question I have
• Compare and contrast our world 50 years ago and today

• Convince your grade to look after our planet.

Earth Day - April 22

Earth Day is celebrated on the 22nd April around the world.

I have prepared a PowerPoint to share with your grade that explains what it is all about.

Earth Day PowerPoint and Tasks
16 pages

This pack includes a PowerPoint to share with your grade. There are facts to discuss and prompts to complete. Included are templates for recording answers and completing tasks.

Tasks include
- Which countries celebrate Earth Day?
- Facts about the men behind Earth Day
- What does the Earth Day Flag look like?
- How can we save our Earth?
- What is your plan of action for saving energy and resources for future generations?

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This next pack is my Earth Day – Reading and Writing K-1 Pack

52 pages

This pack is aligned to the USA CCSS and Aus Curriculum

Please download the preview to see pictures of what is contained in this pack.

Word Wall – color copy and display. As a grade add to this throughout the unit. Students can see the words and use them in writing and in extending vocabulary tasks.

Emergent Reader – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Use the color cover and b/w. You may copy back to back and staple the pages together. As the children read the text, add color to the pictures. Use to reread each day.

3R’s Jack Johnson – the lyrics are here to read on a poster. Record how the song makes you feel and then write your own verse to share
I love my planet because… two formats. One allows the students to add their own picture
My Earth – ways I can save my home … two formats. One allows the students to add their own picture
Use the tub pictures to record what you can Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
What can be recycled? Add your thoughts in the circles and discuss with others
Interactive Notebook page for - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Mind Map for Reuse, Recycle
Collage of items for Recycling
Persuasive Plan for the need to recycle, plus writing page
Persuasive Plan for we need to plant more trees, plus writing page
Earth Day – How can we promote this?
Earth Day – My Footprint
Yellow and Black Hat thinking for compost
Earth Day – Acrostic Poem
Earth Day – Wordfind
Fact and Opinion – 20 cards to sort under these headings

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Or you can get them in a bundle...

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Arbor Day

Arbor Day

15 pages

This PowerPoint will assist in building an understanding of Arbor Day and why we hold it as an important calendar event and acknowledge it in the way we do.

Use this as a PowerPoint and share with your grade.

Discuss each slide and ask questions about their understanding.

Arbor Day is day that is dedicated to celebrating and caring for trees.

We celebrate this day on 22 April each year.Arbor is Latin for tree.

On this day we are encouraged to plant a tree. What will you do with your grade?

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Here is a short video to share with your grade.

April packs

My calendar of events for April

April Fools Day - click here to see more details

Earth Day and in some parts of the world it is Arbor Day

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25th - ANZAC DAY - click here to see more details on TpT

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Themes to look at

Spring - Northern Hemisphere

(water, rain, trees, life cycles, bees) - click here for details

Autumn - Southern Hemisphere - click here

Earth Day - 22 April 2015

Are you ready for Earth Day?

Do you promote making our planet a healthier place to be?

There are many tasks in this pack to help promote making our world a better place.

Scroll below to read about the tasks included.

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Earth Day – Reading and Writing (47 pages)

This pack is aligned to the USA CCSS and Aus Curriculum

Word Wall – color copy and display. As a grade add to this throughout the unit. Students can see the words and use them in writing and in extending vocabulary tasks.

Emergent Reader – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Use the color cover and b/w. You may copy back to back and staple the pages together. As the children read the text, add color to the pictures. Use to reread each day.

3R’s Jack Johnson – the lyrics are here to read on a poster. Record how the song makes you feel and then write your own verse to share

I love my planet because… two formats. One allows the students to add their own picture

My Earth – ways I can save my home … two formats. One allows the students to add their own picture

Use the tub pictures to record what you can Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

What can be recycled? Add your thoughts in the circles and discuss with others

Interactive Notebook page for - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Mind Map for Reuse, Recycle

Collage of items for Recycling

Persuasive Plan for the need to recycle, plus writing page

Persuasive Plan for we need to plant more trees, plus writing page

Earth Day – How can we promote this?

Earth Day – My Footprint

Yellow and Black Hat thinking for compost

Earth Day – Acrostic Poem

Earth Day – Wordfind

Fact and Opinion – 20 cards to sort under these headings

A busy week...

I have put the finishing touches on these packs and they have been posted.

To check any of them out click on the image and it will it take you straight to each one.

This weekend is Easter and these two packs compliment each other as well as a pack I did last year.

Hopping into Easter which is a Math and Writing pack.

On the 22nd April is Earth Day and this contains lots of ideas for you to use to help our kids to think about the impact we make on our planet. It gives ideas to help manage our footprint too!