Earth Day is April 22^nd.  This was always one of my students’ favorite units.   We took an entire week studying conservation and how to take care of the earth.

If you’re looking for some tabletop activities, I have an entire unit on recycling.  It’s 81-pages long and chock full of a variety of skill sheets, including patterning, greater and less than and graphing.

Click on the link to view/download the Recycling Unit. Where’s Ricky the Recycling Raccoon? Is an easy reader booklet that will help reinforce spatial directions.

Students cut and glue the raccoons and recycling cans to the appropriate places on the page and then trace the spatial direction words.

Click on the link to view/download this cute recycling booklet. If you’re looking for some quick and easy recycling-themed “craftivities” you’ll find 4 of them in my Spring Art & Activities book.

Give A Hoot Don’t Pollute is a terrific listening and following directions owl that incorporates all the basic shapes and makes a fantastic hallway decoration.

Lend A Helping Hand is a cute keepsake that reinforces the concept of reduce-reuse and recycle. Use it as a header card.  Students have the writing prompt: What can YOU do to reduce-reuse-recycle? and then attach their writing on the bottom of their "handy work".

Ricky in a tin can “garbage can” and “I CAN reduce reuse & recycle” Pop Can Dangler are truly “recycled” art projects that turn trash into a treasure!

Click on the link to view/download the Spring Art & Activities book.

I hope you’ve found something here that will get you and yours interested in going green!

Be sure and pop back tomorrow for more interesting tips to help you put some fun in your lessons.

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Do you have something you’d like to share?  I’d enjoy hearing from you! diane@teachwithme.com or feel free to leave a comment here, especially if you use one of my ideas!  Thanks in advance.

"When you change the way you see things, the things you see change." -Unknown

Happy Recyling!