Earth Day Learning Pack for Preschoolers

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I believe that it is important to use the opportunity to teach young learners about the importance of our Planet Earth, the many environmental concerns that exist, and how we can help this planet stay clean and healthy, and this FREE Earth Day Learning Pack, perfect for your Earth Day lesson planning, will help you do that.

Whether you use all of the pages on this pack by itself or combine it with the Celebrating Earth Day pack and the Earth Day Letter Matching activity, it will help your preschoolers practice their literacy and math skills, while learning about how to take care of our planet, allowing you to introduce words like reuse, recycle, reduce, compost, trash, planet, planting, pollution, and protecting endangered species.

Preparing the Earth Day Learning Pack

This low-prep pack only needs to be printed on white paper or cardstock and start using it. If you want to make the pages reusable, laminate them or place them in dry-erase pockets. You can also use Velcro dots for the cut-and-paste pages, instead of letting the kids glue on a regular page.

Earth Day Learning Pack for Preschoolers

This FREE 15-page long Earth Day pack can be downloaded at the end of this post, and includes the following activities:

Earth Day Word Wall Cards: These cards can be used to introduce new Earth Day-related words, including Earth, recycle, compost, tree, sun, bird, flower, and truck. They can also help preschoolers identify the images and words in other activities.

These cards can also be used to have your children match the letters with magnetic, wooden, or foam letters, copy and trace the words, and as a matching game if you print two sets.

Count How Many and Circle the Correct Number: In this activity, the children will count the items on the page, and then they will circle the correct number in each row.

Label the Pictures: Students will have to identify each image on the page. Then, they will find and cut the correct label, and glue it in the rectangle located under each image.

Beginning Sounds: Preschoolers will identify each image, say its name aloud, cut out each one, and finally glue it on top of its beginning sound letter.

Count How Many: The children will count the items on each rectangle, then they will write the correct number in the square for each set. If they are not ready to write the number, they can always use magnetic, wooden, or foam numbers, and place them on the square.

Match the Pictures: In this matching game, the young learners will select a color picture and find the same picture in its black and white version, and match them putting both pictures one next to the other.

This matching game can also be used as a folder game. You just have to print all the pages, cut out the black and white pictures, and paste them into a manila folder. Laminate the folder and the colored pictures to make them last longer. Then place them in an envelope or a Ziploc bag, to keep them safe.

Earth Day Scavenger Hunt: Give each child a copy of this activity on a clipboard and a pencil. Then take them outside and have them look for the items on the page. If they see one, they have to mark the small square next to each picture, in any way they want.

When you go back inside, you can have a discussion about their findings, and even use them to make a chart, to count how many of each item the children found.

Word Puzzles: This pack contains word puzzles, one with the word “recycle” and another with the word “compost”. Children will put the word puzzle pieces together, to spell both words correctly.

Earth-related Books

Fill your centers with a great collection of books about Earth, environmental topics, recycling, protecting the Earth, endangered species, energy, and water conservation, for example, to teach your children about Earth and how to protect it.

Below you will find great books that can be found at your local library, used books store, and on Amazon. To make it easier for you to find them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

Celebrating Earth Day by Todd Parr. This eco-friendly book printed entirely with recycled materials and nontoxic soy inks explores the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation, and includes lots of easy, smart ideas on how we can all work together to make the Earth feel good, readers of all ages to do their part in keeping the Earth happy and healthy.

Earth Day Every Day by Lisa Bullard. This nonfiction picture book features kid-friendly text and illustrations to make learning about how to reduce, reuse, and recycle fun, with Trina and her Earth Day club!

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. This beautifully written and illustrated book offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another’s capacity to love in return, much of what Earth does to us all.

I Am Earth by James McDonald. This book introduces kids to the basic concepts of Earth science while also encouraging the importance of taking care of our special planet through environmental awareness and sustainability.

Making a Difference by Stacey C. Bauer. It uses beautiful illustrations, color photos, and interesting facts to tell stories of kids who are making the world a better place by doing amazing things such as planting a billion trees, bringing joy to others through music, fundraising for sick children, or starting an inclusive dance team.

Earth Ninja by Mary Nhin. This book was developed to help children learn valuable life skills, talking about recycling, reducing, and reusing.

What a Waste by Jess French. It is a lively kid’s educational book with fabulous illustrations and fun facts about plans to save our seas, how countries are implementing green projects worldwide, and how to turn waste into something useful.

I Can Save the Earth! by Allison Inches. Kids can follow Max the Little Green Monster’s journey to environmental awareness and learn tips on how they can become little green monsters themselves.

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I hope these activities help you have a successful lesson planning for Earth Day, and that your preschoolers have a fun learning process. To get the FREE pack, you just have to click on the link below and put your information, for an immediate download.

Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.

Love,