Earth Day

Earth Day is a great time to have a school wide day dedicated to science and social studies. The students can learn about the environment in their home town, recycling, and help clean up the town or the school campus. Teachers can review the life cycle of a plant and then plant a class tree. This will make the life cycle of the plant easier to understand because of the visual and physical contact with the tree. Also, you can talk about the ecosystem and human effects on the ecosystem. Students can go for a nature walk and come back to the classroom and record what they saw in their science notebooks. Then the teacher can talk about how humans living on a land can both help and hurt the land. The lesson can end on recycling and cleaning up trash. The students can do a campus walk and clean up any trash that they see. If a teacher needs more activities, there are plenty of outdoor activities. If it rains, the students can watch a movie like WALLE to see the human effects on the ecosystem. Ultimately, we want the students to learn that the world is a beautiful place and the life cycle is a perfect process. As humans, we should do our part to keep this world and our community more beautiful than we found it.