Animated Lessons
Earth Day
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Akamai Backyard - You are in for a treat! Akamai Backyard is a website that is an audio-visual feast highlighting the amazing accomplishments of Felicia Cowden, a homeschool mom in Kauai, Hawaii, and her 7 middle school students. While looking at world challenges and studying Hawaiian culture, she and the students decided to turn discouraging lessons into a joyful empowering process of creating solutions in their own backyard. Since Kauai has to import over 90% of their resources, providing sustainable resources was an interesting challenge for a mom with no gardening background. Akamai means intelligence or common sense in Hawaiian and reflects the attitude of using the natural resources found in your own backyard to learn while doing. Akamai Backyard used permaculture and Hawaiian farming methods to create edible landscaping which is sufficient enough to provide 90% of their school meals and feed their family off 1/3 of the yard of their 1/3 acre home while only producing about 1/2 can of garbage per week. The video on the site would be a great resource for any age student. (Y, M, O, T)
DLTK's Custom Dominos - Great tool for any holiday or unit study theme. Pick a theme for your dominoes and then choose color or black and white before printing. (Y)
Welcome to Earth Day 2010 Online - The EnviroLink Network has served as the online clearinghouse for environmental information since 1991. This website compiles a comprehensive list of Earth Day events occurring in 2009, regardless of size, geographic location or organizational affiliation. (Y, M, O, T)
Your ecological footprint - Take this "quiz" to find out how much impact your lifestyle has on the environment. (Y, M, O, T)
Earth Day Math: Take Your Math Outdoors! - Earth Day can be a wonderful opportunity to spend time observing nature and to gain an appreciation of the beauty of math in nature. (Y, M)
WORMS ARE FUN! Recycling with Worms and Related Activities - Worms consume and recycle organic material. In this article you will see how easy it is to set up and maintain your own indoor family or classroom worm bin. It’s engaging, educational, fun, and yes…creepy and crawly! Your children will discover how to keep, feed and maintain worms while having numerous (almost endless) related science projects throughout the summer and way into the school year. (Y, M, O, T)
A science lesson on Trees - The students will be asked what they know about trees. They will view a tree cutting and guess how old it is. After making predictions they will count the rings to verify the age of the tree.Grade Level - 3rd (Y)
Arbor Day Lessons and Teacher Resources - Arbor Day Lessons and Teacher Resources (Y, M, O, T)
Earth Day Lessons and Teacher Resources - Earth Day, celebrated April 22, is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. (Y, M, O, T)
April Resource Page - Resources and ideas for Easter and Earth Day (Y, M, O, T)
Happy Earth Day Coloring and Activity Book - (Y)
Earth Day Crafts and Projects - Earth Day is a holiday in which the environment of the planet Earth is appreciated and pollution is fought. Earth Day was proposed in the 1960s. Some people celebrate Earth Day on April 22; some celebrate Earth Day on the Vernal Equinox (the day Spring starts in the Northern Hemisphere). These crafts projects are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children. The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc. See a page about color mixing to see how to combine paint to make all the colors of the rainbow. (Y)
Kids at Art - The Imagination Factory - Kids at Art is a website dedicated to teaching how to use recycling in art. In addition to many projects, the site includes an exploration of various artwork around the country. (Y, M, O, T)
Educational in Nature - Georgia-Pacific paper company has produced this educational website with curriculum supplements and activities about forestry. There are several brochures downloadable in .pdf format. (Y, M, O, T)
eNature.com - Great site from the National Wildlife Federation; includes online guides like the Advanced Bird Finder for those species you can't find in your book. If you put in your zip code in the pop-up window, the site complies a custom nature guide for your area. (Y, M, O, T)
Explor-a-pond - a pond ecology site (Y M O)
Earth Day - Lesson plan for young elementary students (Y)
Hands On Plastics - Plastics teaching kit; a video on how plastics help with conservation is also available in single copies free of charge. (T)
Wildlife Action Kit - World Wildlife Federation's "Action Kit provides you with solid ideas, tips, and tools that can help you make a difference for wildlife and wild places. From our safe seafood listing to nontoxic cleanser recipes, the Action Kit can help you reduce your impact on the world. (Y, M, O, T)
Environmental Explorer - Elementary lesson plan from National Geographic Online (Y)
An Ounce of Prevention - Waste reduction lesson plan in .pdf format (requires adobe acrobat reader) for middle school students (M)
All About Rainforests - Learn all about rainforests. From Enchanted Learning (Y,M)
Earth Day for Kids - This page provides links to federal government Web sites for kids related to Earth Day and the environment. (Y, M, O, T)
Earth Day Network - large site dedicated to Earth Day with many resources (Y, M, O, T)
Earth Day - from KidsDomain.com, a large selection of resources for teachers (Y, M, O, T)
Earth Day teacher resources - downloads and activities for pre-K through high school (Y, M, O, T)
Earth Day resources - from the EPA, resources include a downloadable poster and "take home kit" (Y, M, O, T)
Earth Day Grocery Bags Project - The Earth Day Groceries Project is a cost-free environmental awareness project in which students decorate paper grocery bags with environmental messages for Earth Day. (Y, M, O, T)
Earth Day Games - Also from Kids Domain, this site has 4 environmental games and over a dozen animal games. (Y,M)
