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Earth Day Worksheets

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Recycling, trees and clean water on pages that practice sorting, counting, subtraction, reading, graphing and opinion writing.

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Earth Day activities for preschool

Earth Day pages for preschool: color the Earth, a recycle or trash sort (cut or no-cut), counting to 5, picture paths, I spy recycling and an Earth playdough mat.

Earth Day worksheets for kindergarten

Kindergarten Earth Day pages: count and write in ten frames, take-away subtraction with litter, beginning sounds, a read-aloud about Earth Day, an Earth Day promise, a park clean-up story to put in order (cut and paste or no-cut) and a word search. Plus Earth Day word tracing, an I Can Help the Earth page and Earth helpers.

Earth Day worksheets for 1st grade

Recycling story problems and adding tens, a passage about Earth Day, an opinion prompt, a word sort, a word search, a bar graph and an April calendar.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these earth day worksheets

These Earth Day worksheets turn caring for the planet into real practice. Preschoolers color the Earth, sort recycling and trash, count, trace paths to the recycling bin and press playdough onto land and water. Kindergartners count and write, take away litter, hear beginning sounds, listen to a read-aloud about Earth Day, put a park clean-up story in order and make an Earth Day promise. 1st graders solve recycling word problems, add tens, read a passage about Earth Day, sort words, read a bar graph, write an opinion about a class garden and fill in an April calendar.

Earth Day is April 22. Pair these pages with a schoolyard clean-up, a class recycling bin or planting seeds. For more on reducing, reusing and recycling, see the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle page.

Every page is black and white, prints on US Letter or A4, and pages with one right answer have an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • ELOF P-MATH 2Child recognizes the number of objects in a small set.
  • ELOF P-PMP 3Child demonstrates increasing control, strength, and coordination of small muscles.
  • ELOF P-SCI 3Child compares and categorizes observable phenomena.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2.CWrite a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.BRecognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.2.DUse conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.5.ASort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.2Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.1Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.C.4Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.A.1Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.C.4Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

How to use them

  1. Bring in clean recycling (a bottle, a can, a newspaper, a box) and sort it for real before the sorting pages.
  2. Pick the group for your child's grade. Each one mixes math, reading, writing and sorting.
  3. For the recycle or trash sort, the cut and paste page and the draw-a-line page practice the same skill.
  4. Display the Earth Day promises and check in a week later: who kept theirs?

Teaching tips

  • What goes in the recycling bin depends on your town. Talk about your own local rules.
  • On the take-away page, children can act it out: put out 6 paper scraps and pick some up.
  • 1st grade: for the opinion page, push for two reasons, and a closing sentence that says the opinion again.
  • Print double-sided or on scrap paper for a page that practices what Earth Day teaches.

Questions teachers and parents ask

When is Earth Day?

April 22 every year. Many schools mark the whole week, so these pages work any time in late April.

What do the Earth Day worksheets teach?

Sorting, counting and fine motor work in preschool; counting, subtraction, letter sounds, listening and writing in kindergarten; word problems, adding tens, reading, word sorts, graphs, opinion writing and a calendar in 1st grade, all with an Earth Day theme.

Is there an answer key?

Yes. Every page with one right answer has an answer key on page 2.

Are there more pages about recycling?

Yes. The Reduce, Reuse, Recycle page has charts, sorts and helper pages that go well with Earth Day.