A second grade Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Sorting Worksheet where students sort nine everyday items into the correct earth-friendly bin. Answer key included — a quick, no-prep Earth Day activity for home or classroom.
This Reduce, Reuse, Recycle worksheet helps 2nd grade students learn the three Rs by matching each word to its meaning and sorting Earth Day scenarios. Answer key included for quick, no-prep practice.
This go green recycle activity helps preschool to 3rd grade students sort everyday items into paper, plastic, metal, and glass, with a practice page and answer key included.
A recycling sort worksheet for second grade, where students sort paper, plastic, and glass items into the correct bins. Includes an answer key—a hands-on Earth Day science activity for classrooms and homeschool.
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!
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 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.
These earth day flash cards help preschool to 2nd grade children name and read 16 picture words about caring for our planet. A practice page and answer key are included.
This Earth Day Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd grade readers a short passage and six questions to build key comprehension skills. Answer key included — perfect for no-prep Earth Day practice at home or in class.
A reduce, reuse, recycle items worksheet for 2nd grade: three labelled cards where children draw their own example of each idea and write a sentence about it. A simple way to make Earth Day personal.
UsingEarth Day Writing Activity, students brainstorm the sequence of events of a growing seed, then publish using them Earth Day themed writing.
Using Earth Day Contractions Activity, students match two word phrase cards (I cannot) to contractions cards (I can't) in order to use contractions in their writing.
Using Earth Day Numbers Activity, studentscount objects up to 20 in a set in order to build their counting fluency.
This Earth Day Hard Alphabetical Order Activity will teach your students how to put three sets of sight words in alphabetical order.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, repeat!
On Earth Day, April 22, second graders learn how people can take care of our planet. They learn the three Rs: reduce means use less, reuse means use again, and recycle means turn old things into something new. They sort materials like paper, plastic, glass and metal, read about why litter hurts animals, and come up with ways their class can help. The click moment is when kids realize a plastic bottle can become a park bench or a T-shirt.
These moves turn Earth Day into real learning, with reading, sorting and writing kids can be proud of.
Give students pictures of everyday actions, like turning off a faucet or using a jar as a pencil cup. They sort each one under reduce, reuse or recycle and explain why. Some cards fit more than one, which makes for great discussions.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withReduce, Reuse, Recycle Sorting WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Read a short Earth Day passage together, then have students answer questions using evidence from the text. Finish by writing one way they will help the earth this week. Reading and writing stay front and center.
Why it works: mixing different kinds of problems in one practice set helped students do far better on a later test (Rohrer and Taylor, 2007).
Try it withEarth Day Reading Comprehension WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Play the Going Green song as kids line up or clean up. The chorus sticks, and soon they are singing about recycling at recess. A song makes the three Rs easy to recall all spring.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withGoing Green Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Earth Day is a perfect day for hands-on fun.
WorksheetsTeams race to sort real clean recyclables into the right bins. Fastest correct team wins!
Open Recycling Sort Worksheet →
ActivitiesMatch Earth Day contractions like "don't" and "let's" with their two words.
Open Earth Day Contractions Activity →
Flash CardsUse Earth Day flash cards for a quick vocabulary game in small groups.
Open Earth Day Flash Cards →Teacher favorites right now: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Sorting Worksheet, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Worksheet and Go Green Recycle Activity.
Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22. It started in 1970 to raise awareness about protecting the environment.
They should learn the three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), why pollution hurts plants and animals, and simple ways they can help at home and school.
Recycling sorts, reading passages, writing pledges, picking up litter on the playground and planting seeds are all simple and meaningful.
Recycling means turning used things into new things. Paper can become new paper, and plastic bottles can become clothes or benches. It saves resources and keeps trash out of landfills.
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