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Celebrate Earth Day To ﬁnd out more, visit: scholastic.com/knowledgequest TM Explain that Earth Day is a worldwide celebration to raise awareness about the environment. Using a calendar, point to April 22, the date on which Earth Day is celebrated. Discuss how caring for the earth is a daily activity and we should always be mindful of conserving resources. Discuss how caring for the environment today helps future generations. Share with children different activities that people can do to celebrate Earth Day any day of the year: • Plant a sapling or more greenery around school or in a backyard. • Instead of driving/taking a ride in a car, ride a bike, take public transportation, or walk whenever possible. • Create posters with reminders to make environmentally friendly choices and put them in strategic places. • Bake cookies and decorate them to look like the earth. Sell the cookies at a bake sale and donate the proceeds to an environmental organization. • Gather for a picnic in a park and have a litter cleanup excursion. • Collect old books, clothes, and toys to give away through a local charity shop or library for others to reuse. • Bring reusable containers to school for lunch instead of using plastic and paper. • Compost food scraps and yard waste in a home compost bin or a city bin, if available. E C O L O G Y Illustration copyright © 2006 by Gemser Publications S.L. Save the Planet! (Grades 3–4) Activity Bank

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Celebrate Earth Day

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Explain that Earth Day is a worldwide celebration to raise awareness about the environment. Using a calendar, point to April 22, the date on which Earth Day is celebrated. Discuss how caring for the earth is a daily activity and we should always be mindful of conserving resources. Discuss how caring for the environment today helps future generations. Share with children different activities that people can do to celebrate Earth Day any day of the year:

• Plant a sapling or more greenery around school or in a backyard.

• Instead of driving/taking a ride in a car, ride a bike, take public transportation, or walk whenever possible.

• Create posters with reminders to make environmentally friendly choices and put them in strategic places.

• Bake cookies and decorate them to look like the earth. Sell the cookies at a bake sale and donate the proceeds to an environmental organization.

• Gather for a picnic in a park and have a litter cleanup excursion.

• Collect old books, clothes, and toys to give away through a local charity shop or library for others to reuse.

• Bring reusable containers to school for lunch instead of using plastic and paper.

• Compost food scraps and yard waste in a home compost bin or a city bin, if available.

ECOLOGY

Save the Planet! (Grades 3–4)

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Earth day By Emilie gardener. What is earth day ? earth day is a day to honor the earth and it beauty. The earth isn’t as nice as it use to be so to honor