Earth Day Education

Since its inception on April 22, 1970, Earth Day has been an annual event for people around the world to celebrate our planet and renew our commitment to maintaining a safer, healthier and cleaner world for all of us. Earth Day provides the perfect backdrop to discuss important environmental issues with our students and help them to adopt earth-friendly habits early on in life.

The goals of this month’s lesson are to spark creative ideas in your students for reusing everyday products, spur their interest in using recycled products and construct new products of their own. We are pleased to provide you with a lesson plan that is tailored toward the age of your students.

Click Here to view this month's lesson - “Earth Day Recycling." You will be asked to login using the password you received via e-mail at the time you subscribed to CYLC Leadership Link.

Did you use this lesson plan with your students? Please share some of your classroom experiences with using this lesson plan or share suggestions with your teachers on ways you adapted this lesson plan to work for you.

There is a wealth of Earth Day resources for you to use in your classroom available on the web. Here are a few I thought you might enjoy:

• Many of you already use Scholastic.com for classroom resources. Their Earth Day resources are available here.
• The Franklin Institute has an Earth Day math quiz here.
• The Earth Day Network (www.earthday.net) provides environmentally themed lesson plans here.