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Looking for new Earth Day lesson plans to engage your students and bring Earth Day to life? Population Education activities are a great way to show your students how humans impact the environment and to get them thinking about sustainability as our population continues to grow. We have something for every Earth Day celebration whether you teach in-person or online, kindergarteners or seniors, in the desert, mountains or coastline.
Earth Day Lesson Plan Packets
Download the free 2024 Earth Day Packet with lesson plans and student readings for your grade level now!
Packet of 2024 Earth Day lesson plans for K – 5th grades is free to download! Perfect resource for engaging... Read more »
Packet of 2024 Earth Day lesson plans for 6th, 7th and 8th grades is free to download! Perfect resource for... Read more »
Packet of 2024 Earth Day lesson plans for 9th – 12th grades. Free to download! The 2024 Earth Day theme... Read more »
Free Teacher Earth Day PD
More Fun for Earth Day
Earth Day is just around the corner. Download one of the free Earth Day Zoom backgrounds below, to help mark... Read more »
It can be overwhelming to consider the weight of plastic in our world. It feels like every day we hear... Read more »
You have probably heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a giant trash vortex composed of mostly discarded plastic that... Read more »
Earth graphics display human's growing global footprint from 1970 to 1995 to 2022.
Earth Day is always a natural opportunity to teach environmental topics in the classroom, and last week we held a... Read more »
Even though your teaching has moved online, you can still provide students with meaningful and memorable experiences to promote environmental... Read more »
Teacher's Favorite
Code Blue: Endangered Oceans
As the instructor reads a story about the history of the world’s oceans, students act as characters adding and removing…
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