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LitLinks: The BEST Earth Day lessons connecting us to nature

April 6, 2022 LitLinks, LitLinks-Grade 3-5, LitLinks-Grade 6-8, LitLinks-Grade K-2 No Comments

COMPILED BY PATRICIA NEWMAN


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Happy Earth Day 2022! Are you looking for ways to connect your students to nature? Look no further. The LITLINKS lessons below create a CONNECTION your students and nature. Connections help us to recognize our role in nature’s story. When we understand our role, we care, and when we care, we ACT.

Earth Day can integrate all curriculum areas

The following lessons for a variety of age groups will show your students how nature impacts their lives. To protect our world from the ravages of climate change, today’s students must understand:

  • How nature works FOR us, and
  • How they can step in to protect it.

Each lesson links to a fabulous children’s book that explores our connection to nature. Students will write, present, draw, plan, observe, and analyze. In the lessons below, you and your class will explore:

  • how the ocean’s phytoplankton provides nearly 50% of the oxygen we breathe
  • finding nature in urban areas
  • our water crisis
  • plastic pollution
  • endangered species
  • and finally, ways to take action
Book: PLANET OCEAN
LitLinks: Let’s investigate the miracle of phytoplankton, the ocean’s oxygen-makers
Book: JAYDEN’S IMPOSSIBLE GARDEN
LitLinks: Show students how to invite nature closer
Book: WATER
LitLinks: 5 ways to engage students with water
Book: THE MESS THAT WE MADE
LitLinks: Earth Day and ocean plastic
Book: CAPTAIN GREEN AND THE TREE MACHINE
LitLinks: Show kids how to protect ancient rainforests, endangered species
Books: DEAR EARTH…
PLASTIC, AHOY!
SEA CHANGE
LitLinks: The BEST lessons to celebrate Earth Day every day

Lastly, I post new lessons to LitLinks every week. Please come back for future topics.

If you have an idea for a LitLinks post, share it with me in the comments below.

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