Resource Overview
Packet of 2025 Earth Day lesson plans for 9th – 12th grades. Free to download!
The 2025 Earth Day theme is “Our Power, Our Planet.”
Earth Day Activities for High School
The Earth Day activities in this packet will help 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students engage in inquiry-based simulations, modeling, and group collaboration that explore human-environmental interactions, global plastic use and waste, and possible paths toward sustainability. These experiences can then be launching points for rich discussion and independent explorations of human ecology topics.
Don’t teach high school? Check out our Earth Day resource packets for Elementary and Middle School.
Features of This Resource
- Perfect set of activities for your secondary Earth Day teaching module
- Student reading provides an overview of an energy need, use, and waste. A case study on Germany as a solar energy powerhouse.
- Engagement with global challenges will inspire students to be global change makers
Included Lesson Plans & Readings
The following are included with the downloadable packet:
Earth Day Lesson Plans for High School
Energizing Policies
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Students research an energy-related topic in the United States or Canada and consider possible alternatives, weighing costs and benefits in...
Lighting Up Lives
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By taking on the role of a community member, students analyze how energy poverty impacts people living in Monrovia, Liberia...
Cap and Trade Game
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Students play a game that simulates a cap and trade system, and analyze its successes and weaknesses as a policy...
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...
Readings for Earth Day in High School
The Energy Landscape
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Energy background reading: Global demand for energy has grown dramatically, resulting in more fossil fuel use. Yet, there are cleaner...
Germany: Solar Energy Leader
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Energy case study reading: A profile of how Germany came to lead the world in solar power use.
Earth Day Lesson Plans for High School
Energizing Policies
- Students research an energy-related topic in the United States or Canada and consider possible alternatives, weighing costs and benefits in...Lighting Up Lives
- By taking on the role of a community member, students analyze how energy poverty impacts people living in Monrovia, Liberia...Cap and Trade Game
- Students play a game that simulates a cap and trade system, and analyze its successes and weaknesses as a policy...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...Readings for Earth Day in High School
The Energy Landscape
- Energy background reading: Global demand for energy has grown dramatically, resulting in more fossil fuel use. Yet, there are cleaner...Germany: Solar Energy Leader
- Energy case study reading: A profile of how Germany came to lead the world in solar power use.Supplemental Materials
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