1st - 8th 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.

Students read all about seaweed and answer standards-based comprehension questions in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

Learners write an argumentative response with this Earth Day-themed writing prompt about plastic bags. 

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.

Practice argumentative writing with this prompt about making Earth Day a national holiday. 

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

Students use algebraic thinking to find the value of each symbol in this Earth Day math puzzle!

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.