Using the Going Green Song (Animated Music Video), students learn all about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and so much more through a catchy video!
This Forests Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd graders a short non-fiction passage about pine, leafy, and rain forests, plus questions and an answer key. Great no-prep practice for main idea and key details.
Using the Going Green Song (MP3), students learn all about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and so much more through a catchy song!
This tree cut outs activity is a tree-shaped book for kindergarten to 2nd grade. Children color the cover, draw a tree, write about it, and cut out the pages on the bold line.
This happy holidays national holidays activity has 1st-3rd grade students match picture clue cards to ten U.S. holidays and their dates. Answer key included for easy checking.
Using The Giving Tree Worksheet, students compare two characters from a story to determine how they are alike and different.
Hug a tree, plant a tree!
Second graders learn that Arbor Day is a holiday for planting and caring for trees, celebrated in the United States on the last Friday in April. They talk about everything trees give us: shade, clean air, homes for animals, fruit, paper and wood. Many classes learn the parts of a tree and how a tiny seed grows into a giant oak over many years. It is also a great time to talk about taking care of the Earth by reducing, reusing and recycling. The best moment is when kids look out the window and start counting all the ways that one tree on the playground helps them.
Arbor Day is a perfect mix of science, kindness and outdoor fun. These are the moves we use every spring.
Kick off the day with the going green song and ask kids to listen for ways we help the Earth. Make a class list afterward. The song gives them the words and the list turns it into a plan.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withGoing Green Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Kids use tree cut-outs to build a classroom tree, then write one thing trees give us on each leaf. Shade, apples, birds' nests! By the end you have a tree full of reasons to protect real ones.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withTree Cut OutsActivitiesOpen it →Read a short forest passage together, then answer the questions with a partner. It checks understanding and gives kids real facts to share on Arbor Day.
Why it works: pulling an answer out of memory makes it stick far better than rereading it, one of the strongest findings in learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withForests Life Science Reading Comprehension WorksheetAssessmentsOpen it →Trees are made for outdoor fun. These ideas work on the playground, in the classroom or at home.
SongsPlay the going green song on a walk around the school. Kids stop at each tree and name one way it helps.
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ActivitiesFind Arbor Day on the calendar with other national holidays and talk about what makes each one special.
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WorksheetsRead The Giving Tree, then share what a tree gives and how kids can give back.
Open The Giving Tree Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Going Green Song (Animated Music Video), Forests Life Science Reading Comprehension Worksheet and Going Green Song (MP3).
Arbor Day is a holiday about planting and caring for trees. In the United States it is celebrated on the last Friday in April, though some states pick a date that fits their planting season.
We celebrate Arbor Day to remember how important trees are. Trees give us clean air, shade, food, wood and homes for animals, so planting new ones helps everyone.
Plant a seed in a cup, take a tree walk, make leaf rubbings or read a story about trees. Writing what trees give us is a simple way to connect science and kindness.
Plant a tree or flower together, pick up litter at a park, or adopt a tree in your neighborhood and visit it each season. Kids love watching their tree change.
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