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Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom!

April 8, 2016 By fancyfreein4th

Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.

Earth day is right around the corner and it is a great way to incorporate a bunch of different skills and subjects to make it a week to inspire your students to help care for the Earth. I wanted to do an Earth Day Round Up for you all to give you some ideas to add to your classroom… Plus there are 2 freebies, so keep reading!
     First off, my class will be focusing on Writing, because let’s face it, they need it. Their task is to Argue for the Earth, with a mix of persuasive writing and research writing. This fun Earth Day activity has the students come up with convincing arguments as to WHY and HOW their school can Reduce, Reuse and Recycle more. Your class will be engaged in the writing process with a variety of whole class, partner and small group activities that help them formulate their stance, come up with reasons and review persuasive language. 

Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.

 They will be on cloud 9 researching information to strengthen their arguments using these QR codes! It gives them structured independence and technology- so, it’s a win-win!

Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.

My students are English Language Learners, so I have a ton of thinking maps to help them start their essay, sentence stems to help them formulate their argument and think about cause and effect. AND of course these self-editing checklist will make your teacher-life easier when it comes to grading! #canigetanamen
Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.
This set is on sale through Monday! Grab it here at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store

 My students LOVE Center Time and these are three activities perfect for Reading Response Centers.

Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.

Aris from Sailing into Second has an Earth Day Brochure that has a little reading passage and allows the students to synthesize, summarize and extend the information.  It is part of her growing Year Long Bundle that is perfect for a full year of informative writing!  Theresa from Pinkadots Elementary has an Earth Day booklet PERFECT for my intervention buddies.  It has reading passages, song lyrics (perfect to reinforce poetry month) and a fun word search activity at the end! I LOVE Diane from Fifth in the Middle’s Monthly Close Read Sets.  Her April Set covers a lot of fun topics, all leveled for your diverse class AND she has one about Earth Day.  This set is a perfect addition to your reading block or for centers. She has some great blog posts showing how to implement CLOSE reading into the classroom, and it is never too late to start.

Looking for some Earth Day read alouds that go beyond The Lorax and The Giving Tree?

Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.
  Sugar Cube Teaching has a great blog post sharing a lot of fun books perfect for Earth Day- and she has a giveaway right now, so hop on over to her blog post to read more about it.
    We can’t forget about Math, now can we?  
Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.     Grab this Earth Day themed math freebie from my TpT Store for a quick review of Prime, Composite, Factors and Multiples. This is great for homework, extra credit, testing prep, a sub or a quick Math Center.  
     I love Matt from the Digital Divide’s Project Based Learning resources. He has so many great ideas to get students to critically think, be creative and problem solve and his Earth Day Invention PBL activity doesn’t disappoint!  If you have yet to add PBL into your lesson plans Matt has a great blog post showing you how easy it is to start. 
Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.
     Last but not least, I had to share this wonderful blog post Jen shared from Sparking in Second that is just PERFECT for Earth Day.  

Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.

      I love this simple yet AMAZING idea of turning all of those broken and damaged crayons that are floating around your classroom into a student gift! IT really drives home the idea of Reusing/Recycling in a fun way- and it pairs perfectly with the book The Day the Crayons Quit.Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.
Check out her post here for all the details AND be sure to grab her Crayon Gift Freebie!
     I’d love to hear any other fun Earth Day activities that you use in your classroom. Also, if you would like to win one of my Arguing for the Earth sets, hop on over to Twitter and follow me. I just set it up the other day and I would love you to following along with my Fancy and Free Tweets! I will be selecting one of my new Twitter Followers to be the lucky winner THIS Sunday! 
Earth Day Ideas for your Classroom and 2 Earth Day Freebies. Persuasive Writing, QR Research, Earth Day Read Alouds, Close Reads and Center ideas.

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