Earth Day Science Reading and Worksheet

In this Earth Day science reading, students learn about Earth Day, the biggest issues facing Earth (habitat destruction, ocean health, climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity), and what students can do about it!

This lesson makes an awesome emergency science sub plan for April!

In this activity, students will:

• READ an article about Earth Day and the biggest issues facing Earth (habitat destruction, ocean health, climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity). It also includes a checklist of what students can do today to help the planet!
• ANSWER text-dependent questions. All answers come from the text, so no prior knowledge is required.

Please Read Before Purchase: This article includes ideas that kids can actually do to help the environment. While we all mean well when we suggest to “buy local,” that’s not really in most kids’ power. Instead, this article includes ideas that kids can truly do themselves. For example, they can take shorter showers, save unfinished food instead of throwing it away, unplug phone chargers when they’re finished charging, etc.

Teacher Notes:

• An answer key is included.
• This Earth Day science reading is not editable.
• Includes both print and digital Google Slides options to assign
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