Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has grown into a day of global environmental awareness, celebrating the natural beauty of the planet and the innovative ways people have helped reduce, reuse and recycle everywhere. the world.
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Check out our free edmentum classroom resources with printable activities, lesson plans, handouts, and posters to help inform and engage your pre-K through 6th grade students. Use these resources to start a classroom discussion about what we can all do to make our world a cleaner and safer place.
In addition to this toolkit, a great read aloud can help you ground your lessons and translate earth day sentiments into relatable stories that are appropriate for your students. Outside of typical reads like the lorax, consider checking out one of these five inspiring stories about people who made the earth a better place by making a change in their own communities.
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1. The Tree Lady: The True Story of How a Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever by H. joseph hopkins
Explore the true story of the woman who brought trees to the desert city of San Diego, California, American botanist, horticulturist, and landscape architect Katherine Olivia Sessions. Although her story takes place a few years before Earth’s first day, the gardens and parks that Kate Sessions helped build can still be found throughout San Diego. In addition to learning about the life of an inspiring woman who followed her dreams and used her talents to bring beauty to her community, her students will also learn how sometimes “going green” means more than just recycling and conserve energy; it can also mean encouraging your community to embrace the beauty of nature.
2. a plastic bag: isatou ceesay and the women waste pickers of the gambia by miranda paul
one day in njau, the gambia, a young woman named isatou ceesay discovers a plastic bag on the ground while picking fruit. At first, she loves the plastic bag, but as more and more plastic bags start flying around her house, she realizes that they are not as wonderful as she thought and that they are starting to cause a mess in her home. community. she therefore finds a creative solution to not only recycle the old plastic bags, but also to help clean up and empower her community.
3. island of energy: how a community harnessed the wind and changed their world by allan drummond
Take a trip to the danish island of samsø, or as the people who live there call it, energy island, where everything runs on renewable energy. On the power island, people use the wind to generate power and are almost completely power independent. This colorful illustrated book combines a narrative tale with science to tell the true story of how an ordinary community, like many others around the world, decided to make a change and took action to make the world a better place.
4. ada’s violin: the story of the recycled orchestra of paraguay by susan hood
This book tells the story of the real-life Recycled Orchestra, an orchestra in Paraguay made up of children who play instruments made from recycled trash. Ada Ríos, who lives in Cateura, a town built on a landfill, has always wanted to learn to play the violin but knows he can’t afford it. Then one day, an engineer named Favio Chávez begins to teach music to the children of Cateura and, with the help of the town’s gancheros (recyclers), he builds instruments for the children from the garbage that surrounds them. together, the children work hard to practice their instruments and become the recycled orchestra, gaining worldwide fame.
5. follow the moon home: a story of an idea, twenty children, and a hundred sea turtles by philippe cousteau and deborah hopkinson
Written by acclaimed activist Philippe Cousteau and renowned author Deborah Hopkins, Follow the Moon Home tells a powerful story of youth activism, inspired by the efforts of the fifth grade class of 1988 at Ninety-Six Elementary School. , who petitioned to make the loggerhead sea turtle the state reptile of south carolina. In the story, a young woman named Vivienne learns that the loggerhead sea turtles on the beach of her new home are dying because they instinctively follow the moon out to the ocean and are confused by the lights coming from the beach houses along the way. along the shore, unable to find their way. she and her classmates come up with a plan to save the sea turtles and involve the whole community in the process.
Don’t forget that Earth Day is April 22nd! Celebrate in your classroom with our free Earth Day classroom resources from Edmentum!
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