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Earth Day activities, projects and videos
Searching for Earth Day materials? Thinkfinity offers Earth Day lesson plans, activities, projects, videos, interactive tools about conserving energy, recycling and finding innovative ways to solve environmental challenges.
First Lady for the Environment Creative Climates Backyard Naturalist Everyday Explorer Saving Our Oceans The Arctic and Antarctic Circles Preserving Biodiversity Explore and Write About Nature The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands The Amateur NaturalistACTIVITES & TOOLS
Learn more about First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and her work to protect the environment and bring beauty to every community. This module includes active reading suggestions and hands-on activities for the illustrated biography Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers, by Kathi Appelt. Smithsonian's History Explorer, Grades K-4
Your Mission: As head of the new National Geographic Climate Observation Post, you need to create a Climate Map to illustrate the world's different climate zones. Xpeditions, Grades K-12
Your Mission: prepare yourself to take groups of tourists on short nature hikes and answer their questions about area wildlife. Because naturalists are expected to know a lot about the local environment, your job requires you to become knowledgeable about local wildlife and learn how to collect and analyze biological data. This will ensure that you can answer all those tourists' questions! Xpeditions, Grades K-12
Your Mission: Become an Everyday Explorer! You will be making an exploration tool kit that will provide you with the necessary gear and ideas for year-round activities that will help you dive in, get hands-on, and find out exactly what makes your neighborhood tick. Xpeditions, Grades K-12
Your Mission: Teach oceanographers with different specialties about other ocean specialties and thus create a better understanding of the ocean as a complete, diverse system. Xpeditions, Grades K-12
Your Mission: Explore the ends of the Earth—the Poles—to compare and contrast each region. Xpeditions, Grades K-12
Your Mission: Create a map that shows where some endangered species live in the world. Xpeditions, Grades K-12
This reading and writing activity gets children outside and encourages them to explore the world around them, whether it’s in their own backyards, in the woods during hikes, or at parks or beaches. ReadWriteThink, Grades 3-5
Prairie Builders, written and photographed by Sneed B. Collard, III, tells the remarkable story of an effort to bring back part of the native tallgrass prairie in Iowa. Readers learn where the vision for a new prairie came from and how scientists and volunteers are working together to make the vision a reality. The text includes striking photographs, taken by the author, which help bring the project to life. Science NetLinks, Grades 3-8
The Amateur Naturalist, by Nick Baker, is full of information to enhance any outdoor learning experience. Each chapter is dedicated to a group of animals (mammals, birds, fish, etc.) or plants. Within each chapter, there is information on finding, tracking, and identifying each species, plus a few hands-on projects to enhance the outdoor learning experience. Science NetLinks, Grades 3-12
