Make your Earth Day lessons meaningful, engaging, and EASY to prep with this all-in-one Earth Day unit and centers pack! 🌎

We all know this time of year…you need activities that keep students engaged, are developmentally appropriate, and don’t take hours to prep. This resource checks every box. Teachers love it because it’s simple to use, quick to prep, and students actually learn a lot.

Just print, cut, and teach—everything is designed to help you bring Earth Day and recycling concepts to life through hands-on, interactive learning.

Students will build understanding of recycling, caring for the Earth, and the world around them while strengthening science, math, and ELA skills. From research and writing to phonics and math centers, this resource keeps learning purposeful and fun.

Even better, these activities are designed to work alongside ANY curriculum, helping you support and meet science and social studies standards while making your required curriculum easier to implement and more engaging for students.

Why teachers love this resource:

• ✔️ Low prep, print-cut-teach simplicity
• ✔️ Developmentally appropriate for young learners
• ✔️ Keeps students engaged and learning
• ✔️ Integrates science, math, and ELA
• ✔️ Works with any curriculum to support standards and student learning
• ✔️ Includes centers, writing, and hands-on activities

What’s included:

• Graphic Organizers
• Recording Sheets
• Writing & Drawing Activities
• Read-Aloud Book Suggestions
• Earth Day Hat
• 12 Math & Literacy Centers

Hands-on learning activities:

• KWL / Schema Map
• Writing About the Outdoors & Garbage
• Earth Graphic Organizer
• “Our Class Cares” Chart
• Thank You Letter Writing
• Recycling Sort
• Good or Bad for the Earth Sort
• Help the Earth Sort
• Nature Hike Scavenger Hunt

Math & Literacy Centers (12 total):

• Spin & Graph
• Adding & Subtracting to 10
• Ten Frames Matching (to 20)
• Place Value Matching
• Math the Room (ten frames)
• Beginning, Middle & Ending Sounds
• Digraph Sort (sh, th, ch, wh)
• CVC & CVCe Word Building

Students will love exploring how to care for the Earth while building vocabulary, language, and critical thinking skills in a way that makes sense for their age and stage.

If you want an easy-to-use, engaging, standards-based Earth Day resource that actually works in real classrooms, this is your go-to!

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Megan M. says:  “This is my second year using this resource to help teach Earth Day. My students found the material engaging and motivating.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Mary S. says:  “My students loved this resource, and it was so easy to put together. The skills were appropriate for differentiation and exactly what they needed! I also used parts of it for my sub to review skills taught this quarter.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Carden C. says:  “My students loved this resource! They especially loved "Earth The Room," and I found a lot of these resources to be helpful in small groups, too! We love Mr. Greg and The Kindergarten Smorgasboard!!!!”

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Thank you!

Greg & Jason Warren

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