Lesson Packet

Grades K-2, 3-5

Earth Day Activities for Elementary Students

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SUBJECTS: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies

TOPICS: Climate Change, Energy, Personal Consumption

Resource Overview

Packet of 2025 Earth Day lesson plans for K – 5th grades is free to download! Perfect resource for engaging your elementary students in the 2025 Earth Day theme “Our Power, Our Planet.”

Earth Day Activities for Elementary Schools

The Earth Day activities in this packet will help young children grow their awareness of our planet and develop Earth-loving attitudes. Ecology themes can frame interdisciplinary lessons in K-5 classrooms that build students’ skills in numeracy, literacy, problem solving, scientific inquiry, and communication. Through these activities, students will cultivate environmental stewardship while also building content knowledge in core subject areas.

Don’t teach elementary? Check out our Earth Day resource packets for Middle Grades and High School.


Features of This Resource

  • Engages elementary students with important questions like: 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?
  • Fun and interactive lessons will make a memorable 2025 Earth Day

Included Lesson Plans & Readings

The following activities are included in the downloadable packet:

Earth Day Lessons for Elementary Students

Energy Imagery

- Through a guided role-play, students compare the energy use of a typical morning 200 years ago with a typical morning...

Counting Carbon

- Students solve word problems and use packing peanuts to visualize how much CO2 is produced daily by cars, then participate...

Lend a Hand to the Earth

- Students create handprint art and write an action they will take to protect the environment.

More or Less

- Students construct a word web to show the possible cause and effect relationships of a growing population. Students will be...

Earth Day Readings for Elementary Students

How do People Use the Earth’s Resources?

- Elementary-level reading that addresses renewable and non-renewable resource use and impacts.


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