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Earth Day is celebrated each year on April 22 since 1970. It was originally proposed Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin as a day to educate the public about the effects of pollution on the environment. Today, Earth Day is observed in over 192 countries as a celebration of the Earth and to bring awareness to environmental concerns.
There are so many ways to celebrate Earth Day with your kids. You could take the scientific approach and learn about the earth and environment or you could make fun crafts. This year, we are doing a little everything with the Earth Day learning lapbook and study guide from A Journey Through Learning.
Do you do lapbooking in your homeschool? We have used lapbooking from the beginning. Both kids use it differently. One likes to put the entire lapbook together and the other likes to use the lapbook printouts as a way to take notes to learn material. Both ways are great! (Related post: How Lapbooks Help Kids Learn Science)
Here are some other great Earth Day lesson ideas to celebrate Earth Day with your kids! You can even use them with the Earth Day lapbook!
Science Of Earth Day Lesson Ideas
Learn about planet Earth and the solar system – KidsAstromomy.com solar system interactive
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources – CK-12.org lesson and resources
Learn about the water cycle – make your own water cycle (thewaterproject.org)
Learn About Recycling – videos and info, more recycling info
Learn about types of pollution – pollution info for kids from Ducksters.com
Learn about composting – make compost cups
Learn about gardening – create a square foot garden
We usually celebrate my husbands birthday, but recycling happens on a daily basis, so lots of time spent talking about how we can reuse things or repurpose them.
I think it is important to not only talk about the importance of Earth Day to my family and my students but to also show them examples by living and doing projects daily. For example/recycling, upcycling, picking up trash in the park were we sometimes go for recess, walking instead of driving,using rags instead of using so many paper towels, use earth friendly products, et cetera.
We love Earth Day! It helps us reflect on things we do all year long!😊
Every year I have my children sort through our waste, talk about ways we can recycle (donations) and help decrease waste and an earth craft.
I love earth day. we walk around town and pick up litter
This year we are going to try and make it to a local event hosted here at a park.
Planting flowers and do earth related crafts.
this will be the 1st year our little man get’s to help out….I will be teaching him why it’s important to recycle. Time to change all the light bulbs and go through all of the recycling.
We usually plant some flowers or a tree for earth day
We love to start our garden on Earth day as a family.
Earth Day is just to remind folks like me to remind others to do their part to save our planet!
We talked about ways to recycle and help keep our planet clean. We practiced this on a daily basis but go into more detail on Earth Day.
Planting veggies with my kids and berries!
We planted 14 trees around our neighborhood and it felt wonderful