3rd - 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.

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

This Earth Day, learn about conservation and the environment while you enjoy solving a fun puzzle! 

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.

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?

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.

This Earth Day worksheet promotes discussion and cooperative work among kids as they try to fill out this school house grid.

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

The grizzly bear once roamed across most of North America; now its habitat has shrunk to the northwest. Discover more about the grizzly with this worksheet.

Meet the red wolf, an endangered species of animal that was once very common, but in the past 50 year nearly became extinct!

Learners will write an original song for planet Earth in this fun songwriting prompt.

For your budding environmentalist, here is an information sheet on a well-known endangered species, the Komodo dragon!