Environmental Activities for Students
Environmental Activities for Students
Browse TeacherVision's library of environmental activities for students, including printables, worksheets, classroom activities, and lesson plans! Perfect for Earth Month and any time of the year.
Environmental Activities for Students & “Green” Resources
Supplement outdated science textbooks with our environmental activities for students. These activities and guides will encourage your students to live a “greener” lifestyle, at home and school.
Why Teach Students Environmental Awareness?
By teaching children at a young age to be environmentally aware, you are building lifelong habits that could potentially make a dramatic difference in the future of the earth.
What’s Included in These Environmental Activities for Students?
TeacherVision’s environmental activities for students include methods for reducing waste and trash, information about product consumption, recycling tips, facts about pollution and its effects on the environment, global warming statistics, worksheets on different ecosystems, and plenty of projects for students to complete inside and outside the classroom.
Reducing Trash, Litter & Waste
Choose from these resources to teach students ways to help the environment. Included are printables to create alternatives to cleaning up the environment, learning about landfills, and a fun detective activity.- Save Our Earth! Alternative Uses for Common Trash
- Trash & Climate Change
- Waste Reduction Unit: Activities on Solid & Hazardous Waste
- Landfill & Combustion Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Case of the Broken Loop
- Composting Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Favorite Classroom Activities for Going Green
- Green Classroom Practices That Save Money
- More Resources on Waste, Litter & Trash
Recycling Tips & Tricks
Use these resources to enhance students' knowledge about recycling through reading passages, a study guide, and coloring book.- Recycling Facts
- The "Three Rs": Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle
- Recycling Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Reusing & Recycling Reduces Waste: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Recycling Study Guide
- Coloring Packet: Reusing an Old Jar
- More Resources on Recycling
Minimizing Pollution
Enhance students' comprehension about air pollution by using these resources. Included is a vocabulary printable, creating a wanted poster, along with enrichment and hands on activities.Resource Consumption
Expand your lessons on the environment by using these on Resource Consumption. Students research natural resources and map their locations, fill in a graphic organizer with ways to help the environment, along with other activities.- Buy Nothing Day
- Dr. Seuss and Resource Use: Featuring The Lorax
- Source Reduction Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
- Sources of Resources
- Products Unit: Activities on the Product Life Cycle & Use
- Ways to Help the Environment
- Green Living Quiz: Environmental Resources
Protecting Ecosystems
These resources will extend student learning. Lessons include home projects, role playing, and a nature walk to collect information about ecosystems.- Surviving in the Environment: Family Activity
- Living Things and Their Environments: Vocabulary
- An Ecosystem Escapade
- How Many People Does It Take to Ruin an Ecosystem?
- Nature Romp
- More Ecosystems Resources
Making Your School a Greener Place
Get your students involved! These resources include lessons on doing things to make a difference at school, eating a waste-free lunch, and establishing a club with environment-impacting activities.- Make a Difference in Your School
- Join the Planet Protectors Club!
- Waste-Free Lunch
- Planet Protectors Calendar of Activities
- Environment Glossary
Environmental Science
Choose from these resources to expand students' learning about the environment. Activities include printables, quizzes, and thought-provoking questions.- Green Living Quiz: Global Warming
- What Are Local Climates?
- Green Living Quiz: Famous Environmentalists
- More Environmental Science Teacher Resources
For Your Whiteboard
Our list of resources is full of choices to make great lessons. Choose from cross-curricular and regular lessons to increase students' environmental learning.Recommended Environmental Activities for Students Resources
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WORKSHEETS
How Many People Does It Take to Ruin an Ecosystem?
Pupils will role-play elements of a food web to illustrate the connections in ecosystems. Then they will respond to rea... -
TEACHING RESOURCE
Instant Expert
Become an instant expert on science and social studies topics featured in DK's award-winning reference series. Find whit... -
WORKSHEETS
Composting Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
Composting is the controlled decomposition of organic materials. This printable guide to the basics of composting – and ... -
WORKSHEETS
Recycling Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
Your students probably already know the basics of recycling and why it is important. This unit of printables and activit... -
WORKSHEETS
Dr. Seuss and Resource Use: Featuring The Lorax
Use these classroom activities with The Lorax by Dr. Seuss to teach kids about natural resources and the potential negat... -
WORKSHEETS
Waste-Free Lunch
Teach your students why it's important to prepare a waste-free lunch – and then how to do it! Included is a letter to pa... -
TEACHING RESOURCE
Green Classroom Practices That Save Money
Go green in your classroom with environmentally friendly tips that will save you and your school district money! Learn h... -
WORKSHEETS
Pollutants Wanted Poster
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WORKSHEETS
Human Disasters: A Timeline of Earth-Altering Accidents
Pupils must research infamous earth-altering disasters then fill in the timeline provided in order to better understand... -
WORKSHEETS
Living Things and Their Environments: Vocabulary
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WORKSHEETS
Coloring Packet: Reusing an Old Jar
Begin teaching students at a young age the importance of reusing and recycling with this mini coloring book. An old jar ... -
WORKSHEETS
Sources of Resources
Pupils will research resources and investigate their sources and uses. They will present conclusions to the class and id... -
WORKSHEETS
Investigate Activity: Investigating Air Pollution
Students make a model air pollution detector using string and petroleum jelly, then use it to check pollution levels in ... -
WORKSHEETS
Environment & Pollution: Matching Worksheet
In this printable worksheet, pupils match common environmental terms with their definitions. This activity is a great su... -
WORKSHEETS
Save Our Earth! Alternative Uses for Common Trash
A table detailing the most common rubbish found on beaches during an international clean-up day is provided in this work... -
WORKSHEETS
The "Three Rs": Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle
People know that the "three Rs" stand for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. But do you know how to put these concepts into action?... -
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Favorite Classroom Activities for Going Green
Educate students about ways they can go green. The activities in this slideshow will help you teach students how to redu... -
WORKSHEETS
An Ecosystem Escapade
Pupils will role-play elements of a food web to illustrate the connections in ecosystems. They will enjoy creating an ar... -
WORKSHEETS
Trash & Climate Change
Pupils learn the connection between rubbish and climate change with this printable packet of activities. This is a perfe... -
WORKSHEETS
Waste Reduction Unit: Activities on Solid & Hazardous Waste
In this unit on waste reduction, pupils learn the basics of solid and hazardous waste, plus ways to reduce the productio... -
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Ways to Help the Environment
Students use this graphic organizer to list ways to help the environment, including the air, land, and water. This print... -
WORKSHEETS
Surviving in the Environment: Family Activity
Suggest to parents a family activity that provides a series of home projects and vocabulary words to help children under... -
WORKSHEETS
Landfill & Combustion Unit: Environment Activities for the Classroom
Landfills are the most common form of waste disposal and are an important component of an integrated waste-management sy... -
WORKSHEETS
Buy Nothing Day
Celebrate Buy Nothing Day (each November) by abstaining from purchasing any product of any kind! Students will reflect u...