2nd - 4th 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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A fun challenge for kids, this Earth Day crossword puzzle is a great way to review facts about the Earth and get a reminder on how to live green.

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?

Put proper punctuation into practice with these read-along stories.

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

In this worksheet, children learn about the role art plays in the celebration and messaging of Earth Day, which begain in 1970 to heighten awarness of environmental crises around the world.

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

This simple acrostic template for Earth Day makes it easy for kids of all abilities to pen a poem about the planet.

It's an Earth Day word ladder! Step on up.

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