Looking for some fun and engaging activities to teach your students about Earth Day? This resource includes five interactive books perfect for a whole week of lessons! The worksheets have cut and paste activities to keep your students engaged.

The booklets are:

• Our Earth is Special
• Reduce It!
• Reuse It!
• Recycle It!
• Let's Celebrate Earth Day (Free Download)

Your students will interact with each book through cutting and pasting pictures, responding to writing prompts, drawing and coloring.

Here's what students will learn in each book:

• Our Earth is Special
  • Our Earth is just the right temperature to sustain life.
  • Why we need water.
  • The Earth provides us oxygen.
  • The importance of plants and animals.
  • Writing prompt about why our Earth is special.

• Reduce It
  • Ways we can use less.
  • Ways we use water and how to conserve.
  • Ways to travel without using gasoline.
  • How to conserve electricity.
  • Writing prompt about conserving resources.

• Reuse It
  • 4 common items we already reuse in our daily life.
  • Reusable water bottles vs. disposable water bottles.
  • Plastic, paper, and cloth shopping bags and how cloth bags are the best for reusing.
  • Donating items
  • Writing prompt about reusing common everyday items.

• Recycle It
  • 4 common items we can recycle: metal, plastic, paper/cardboard, and glass.
  • Sorting some common everyday recyclable items.
  • Ways people recycle including home recycling services and recycling centers.
  • Common items that can't be recycled.
  • What happens at a recycling center?
  • Writing prompt about the 3 R's and which one they think is the most important.

• Let's Celebrate Earth Day
  • When and why we celebrate Earth Day.
  • The 3 R's - reduce, reuse, recycle.
  • 5 ideas for celebrating Earth Day.
  • Making choices that help the Earth.
  • Writing prompt about celebrating Earth Day.