3rd - 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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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?

The California condor has been brought back from the brink of extinction. This worksheet will help your little bird lover learn all about the condor.

There are many endangered species all around the world. Read about the Amur leopard and why it's endangered with this information page.

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.

The silverback gorilla is a special animal. This magnificent male is part of an endangered species. Complete this sheet to learn all about this gentle giant.

There are many animals around the world whose lives or homes are threatened. Read about an endangered species from Africa with this info-sheet

Whether you say buffalo or bison, it is still the largest land mammal in North America. Discover a bit more about this majestic animal.

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!

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