Resource Overview
Packet of 2025 Earth Day lesson plans for 6th, 7th and 8th grades is free to download! Perfect resource for engaging your middle level students in the 2025 Earth Day theme “Our Power, Our Planet.”
Earth Day Activities for Middle Schoolers
The Earth Day activities in this packet will help junior high and middle school students engage in inquiry-based simulations and modeling activities that explore changing trends in world population, and how they relate to natural resource use, land and water use, ecosystem health, and more. Scalable activities are great for students of all abilities and learning styles.
Don’t teach middle level? Check out our Earth Day resource packets for High School and Elementary.
Features of This Resource
- Fun and interactive lessons will make a memorable 2025 Earth Day
- What are some of the ways people impact the planet? What can I do, and what can we do, to help? How can we be sustainable even as our population grows?
Included Lesson Plans
The following are included in the downloadable packet:
Earth Day Lesson Plans for Middle School
Fracked or Fiction
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Students analyze information about fracking and their sources for bias and ultimately take a stance arguing for or against fracking....
In Search of Sustainable Life
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Students develop an index of the ten factors they identify as most important to a sustainable community and develop models...
People and Climate Change: The Data Is In
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Students interpret various forms of data (graphic, written, and visual) and identify relationships between population growth, greenhouse gas emissions, temperature...
In The News: Research for Tomorrow
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Through planning, writing, and performing a news telecast, students use information from current events articles to create fact-based predictions about...
Earth Day Lesson Plans for Middle School
Fracked or Fiction
- Students analyze information about fracking and their sources for bias and ultimately take a stance arguing for or against fracking....In Search of Sustainable Life
- Students develop an index of the ten factors they identify as most important to a sustainable community and develop models...People and Climate Change: The Data Is In
- Students interpret various forms of data (graphic, written, and visual) and identify relationships between population growth, greenhouse gas emissions, temperature...In The News: Research for Tomorrow
- Through planning, writing, and performing a news telecast, students use information from current events articles to create fact-based predictions about...Supplemental Materials
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