1st - 5th Grade 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.

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

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!

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

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.

Children will color in a drawing of Earth, then write something they can do to help Earth, in this simple, sweet coloring page and 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 maze features a cool globe design. Perfect as an Earth Day activity, our Earth maze gets your child to consider our home planet.

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

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

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

Learn the vocab you need to save the planet with this Earth Day word search! Talk about how these words relate to the planet and make this Earth Day a success.

It's easy being green when you have our Earth Day game for a guide. Just print out this Earth Day game and get ready to score one for the planet.

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

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.

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

Got a kid who's crazy for crosswords and the planet? Check out our Earth Day crossword puzzle, full of fun facts about the Earth and its many inhabitants.

Get started on geography and have your child color this page and learn about this amazing continent and its animals.

Invite students to think creatively—and eco-consciously!—this Earth Day with this writing prompt.

The continent of Africa is known for its amazing wildlife. Your budding explorer can bring the continent and the animals to life with this Africa coloring page.

Teach your child how to respect the ecosystem with a science worksheet that doubles as a coloring page. Can they identify the sources of pollution in the scene?

Introduce your kid to the largest continent with this Asia coloring page. You can also give a quick science quiz by asking him to name the featured animals.

Teaching kids what's recyclable and what's not is more important than ever. Give your kids the recycling lowdown with this activity-packed printable.