Earth Day Reading Comprehension Passages Endangered Animal Research Activities
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Looking for an Earth Day no-prep activity pack to celebrate this April? Engage your students with nonfiction articles about water pollution, recycling, and conservation. A complete research project is included about endangered species, just perfect as you celebrate our planet! With high-interest hands-on activities, there are enough tasks to keep students engaged and learning all month long!
The Earth Day pack is filled with reading, writing, and math activities to engage your students about how important it is to do our part to help the environment.
The endangered animal research project is a step-by-step approach to have your writers researching and writing about an endangered species of their choice.
Short on time to teach about Earth Day? Complete activities in group settings and encourage meaningful discourse in a short amount of time!
CONTENTS of Earth Day No-prep Pack:
✓ Link and directions to use the digital version in Google Classroom™
✓ 5 Nonfiction Reading Passages and Activities:
- Earth Day (Response Questions)
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (Response Questions and Flip Book)
- Recycling Loop (Sequence Chain and Opinion Question)
- Water Conservation (Response Questions and Cause and Effect)
- What Is Pollution? (Main Idea and Opinion Question)
✓ Student Note-Taking Sheet
✓ Student Presentation Directions (Optional Activity)
✓ Fiction Reading Activities based on the book Miss Rumphius by:Barbara Cooney
- Character Trait Analysis
- Reader Response Questions
- How the Setting Affects the Story Questions
- Theme and Life Lesson Activity
✓ Grammar and More
- Quote Reflection
- Dictionary Look It Up Activity
- Cloze Reading Activity (answer key included)
- 3 Prefix “Re” Activities
- Earth Day Word Search and Answer Key
- Earth Day 3-2-1 Reflection
- Earth Day Awards for Students in color and BW
✓ Writing Activities
- Earth Day Quilt
- Give the Earth a High Five
- Friendly Letter Writing to Mother Earth
- Save the Planet Acrostic Poem
- Opinion Writing Prompt & Graphic Organizer
- Explanatory Writing Prompt & Graphic Organizer
- Narrative Writing Prompt & Graphic Organizer
- Open-ended Earth Day Poster
✓ Math Activities and Answer Keys
- Producing Garbage Word Problems (answer key included)
- Reducing Garbage Math Game
- Adding it All Up (addition of 3 and 4 digit numbers)
- Multiplication Grid (two levels included to meet your class' needs)
✓ Science
- Garbage Challenge
- Earth Day Poster (with sentence starters)
CONTENTS of Endangered Animal Research Project:
✓Digital Link and Directions
✓Anchor Chart Posters:
- What Does Endangered Mean? Poster (color and BW)
- What Does Extinct Mean? Poster (color and BW)
- Conservation Status Poster (color and BW)
- Endangered Species List of Animals Poster (color and BW)
✓Saving Endangered Species NF Article and Reflection
✓Student Project Directions (2 Formats)
✓Preparing for Animal Research and KWL
✓Detailed Student Note Taking Sheets with Guided Ideas for 2 Different Sources
✓Plain Student Note Taking Sheet
✓Planning Your Writing Graphic Organizers
✓Planning each Paragraph & Details Graphic Organizer
✓Student Editing Checklist
✓Teacher Rubric
✓Lined Paper and Cover Sheet for Animal Research
Creative Animal Research Display Options:
✓Animal Flip Book
✓Animal Snapshot
✓Animal Display Poster
✓6 “You Choose” Going Further Extension Organizers (Use with any book or article)
✓Teacher Notes and Suggestions
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"This is a great resource for Earth Day! I love how easy it made tying in writing and reading activities into science and social studies. Love it!"
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“My students loved this research project. It stepped us through the process of researching, provided great graphic organizers, and was so easy to use. I will definitely use it again.”
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"Great product! Activities are thorough and high interest - my students were engaged in everything!"
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