Earth Day Resources

  1. Teaching Resources

Celebrate Earth Day all month long with this selection of resources to connect young students to nature, both inside and outside of your learning environment.

Give an Hour for Earth: youth art gallery


In celebration of World Water Day and Earth Day, we invite all young artists to participate in our Give an Hour for Earth campaign by creating unique artistic interpretations of why we need water and why water needs us. Submit your artwork by Earth Day, April 22, for a chance to have it featured on our webpage and receive an education goodie bag!

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  • Arts Education

    Conservation Challenge Cootie Catcher

    Challenge yourself and friends to make a difference for the planet! Each play reveals a habitat and species that need your help. Use the blank copy to write in ideas of your own of how you can help wildlife and the environment

  • Science

    Pollinator Garden Guide and Wildflower Journal

    Learners can create their own pollinator garden and track its progress with a science journal.

  • Science

    Wildflower "No Pick" Scavenger Hunt

    Learners can use this guide to locate and identify wildflowers local to their region.

  • Science

    Field of Bees

    Print-and-play dice game that teaches players about endangered bee species native to North America. Players will match flowers to the bees they attract while avoiding threats such as pesticides and climate change. Use this game to introduce your students to the importance of pollinators and motivate them to support their local bee species.

  • Printables

    Grasslands and Pollinators Activity Book

    This booklet is filled with puzzles, stories, and activities that can be printed as a full book or individually so kids can learn how to do their part to protect the Northern Great Plains.

  • Printables

    Sea Turtles and Oceans Activity Book

    Through colorful puzzles and reading samples, learn all about sea turtles, ocean habitats, and how human actions impact the marine environment.

  • Science

    Biodiversity Presentation

    Using this easy-to-give interactive slideshow, teach your students about biodiversity and the impacts of human activity. Included in the notes are prompts to help guide the lesson, with bolded vocabulary terms and opportunities to integrate discussion points.

  • Science

    Biodiversity Escape Room

    Challenge your students with this team-building, escape room-style exercise exploring ecological roles within an ecosystem and how biodiversity is connected to ecosystem health. While solving the puzzles, students will learn to recognize how their own actions contribute to a team's success.

  • Biodiversity Audit

    Students will perform a biodiversity audit of their local grounds, following similar steps as scientists in the field. Based on their findings, they will evaluate the property based on how well it can support species and devise a plan for how they can increase its biodiversity score.

  • Arts Education

    Biodiversity Mosaic

    Students will create an artwork piece that reflects their interpretation of biodiversity. After learning about all that biodiversity encompasses, as a group, they will then piece their artwork together to create a large collaborative representation of healthy biodiversity on Earth.

  • Science

    The Connections Between Us

    To understand the interdependence of living things, students will participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates the vast impacts of threats to our planet’s biodiversity and how biomes and species are connected.

  • Language Arts

    Eating Our Planet

    Students will compose a creative letter to a future pen pal describing Earth's environmental health as a result of the impacts of food.

  • Math

    How Much Water is in Your Lunch?

    Students will comprehend the amount of resources, namely water, required to produce various food items by comparing data and creating a pictograph.

  • Math

    A Drop in the Bucket

    Students will evaluate their current daily water use and be tasked with designing a new daily routine, imagining they were limited in the amount of water available, as many areas of the world are.

  • Language Arts

    A Need for the Seas

    This persuasive writing exercise allows students to gain a sense of empowerment by composing a letter that addresses the threats sea turtles and oceans face.

  • Trees and Tigers

    Using a discovery and data collection exercise, students uncover the immense number of products humans use that come from the forest.

How Can I Make a Difference? Helping the Planet as a Young Person Video

Students can often feel powerless in the face of environmental crises, but there is tremendous potential for young people to make a difference. Start off the school year empowered by tuning in to learn tangible ways for your students to help the planet. Ryan Zlatanova, Activism & Outreach Specialist at WWF, will talk about why youth voices are so important and be joined by Reid Chapman, a current high school student who has been advocating for nature since he was a child. For more educational videos and Q&A sessions with our experts, subscribe to WWF's Wild Classroom YouTube channel.

Test Your Knowledge

Check out Wild Classroom's Earth Day collection on Kahoot! Academy for fun trivia and quizzes about small actions we can all take to help protect our planet.

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