1st - 6th 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.

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

Introduce students to the ecological benefits of terracing with this middle grades science worksheet!

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.

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

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!

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

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.

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.

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

How do you make recycled paper? Learn all about the recycling paper process on this informative worksheet.

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?

Celebrate Earth Day with an engaging word search activity that reinforces spelling skills!

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

Dig into this fun science worksheet and introduce your budding geologist to some earth science vocabulary.