3rd - 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Find the value of each symbol with this Earth Day-themed math puzzle!

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

Practice argumentative writing with this Earth Day-themed prompt about tourism's impact on the environment.