Elementary School Earth Day Educational Resources

In this worksheet, children discover what plastic is, how it is manufactured, as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

Invite budding naturalists to sharpen their observation skills with this colorful, printable scavenger hunt.

This worksheet is a fun, easy way to help children count and learn their numbers and addition skills. How many trees do you see?

This worksheet will help teach your kindergartner the basics of botany, by asking them to look at the pictures and then decide what a plant needs to grow tall.

From nature hunts and rock painting to recycled art and poetry writing, these activities combine scientific exploration with arts and crafts projects.

Test your child's knowledge of plant life--more specifically, trees--with this colorful, cut-and-paste tree chart.

Encourage your child to take a nature walk, using the prompts on this worksheet to write and draw their observations of plants, animals, sounds, and more.

Find out how to help the Earth with our Earth Day fill-in-the-blank. With this awesome Earth Day activity, you and your kid can save the planet!

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Sparks students' creative thinking with this Earth Day-themed reflective writing prompt.

Children learn how the internet travels across the ocean through cables to create a giant, global information network in this engaging, hands-on worksheet.

This Earth Day quiz family and friends with this true or false questionnaire. It's all in good, informative, fun!

Children match animals to their ecosystems in this life sciences worksheet.

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun writing prompt about an Earth Day discovery!

Inspire creative thinking this Earth Day with a nature-themed reflective writing prompt.

Teach your kids about the importance of preserving freshwater ecosystems with a lake habitat coloring page filled with frogs, turtles, ducks, and dragonflies.