Great Earth Day Sites

Planet Pals Greatest Earth Day Pages Ever - Join the Planet Pals and be a friend for Earth as you venture through this website filled with LOADS of ideas, facts, games, plans, the Earthzine Magazine, and much more! This is definitely worth checking out!

Sci4Kids - This awesome site from the USDA Agricultural Research Service is full of stories, writing ideas, activities, plans, and more. Teachers, be sure to go to the "Teacher's Desk" and "Teacher's Whiz Kid Activity Packet."

Kids Domain Earth Day - Find out the history of Earth Day, get great activities and crafts to do, learn songs, play games, read stories and a poem, and more at this great site.

Celebrate Earth Day with the Lorax - Practice your mouse coordination and timing skills as you join the Lorax to play the game "Save the Trees with the Lorax."

Earth's Birthday Project - This cute site has wonderful graphics and easy to understand information. Be sure to check out the Rainforest Exploratorium, Butterflies and Bugs, Critter Club, and Zwibbles.

Earth Day Groceries Project - Get your students involved in sharing their concern about the environment with the community. Check out this Earth Day Groceries Project.

Earth 911 Kids - Elementary - Find games and activities, books to read, songs, art ideas, the Earth Day Pledge, and more at this great site. Be sure to try the Test Your Knowledge to see how much you know about recycling and the environment.

Helpful Hints for Planet Earth - Read a book written by first graders, take a quiz, do creative writing, build jig saw puzzles, do a word search, and get other ideas from this web page put together by a first grade class in New York.

Earth Day Tips - Do you want to help to save the environment? Here are 30 tips for you and your family members.

Family Education.com Earth Day - Are you and your family eco-friendly? Learn about the earth, find fun activities, take polls and quizes and more here.

Energy Savers - Become an e-patrol and find out ways you can save energy in your home.

Earth Day in Your Neighborhood - Hey kids! Here's your chance to celebrate the earth, get together with your neighbors, and help create an awareness of our environment locally by having a block party. Get ideas on how to organize one and tips on what to do.

All Species Parade and Art Projects - Scroll down to "How to do an All Species Parade and celebration in your community. Here you can find creative and fun ideas from the guide "Earth Day in Your School and Community" by Chris Wells, John McLeod, and Marty Kraft. Make animal masks, get wonderful ideas for drama and theater, have a Creature Congress or mock legislative body where a creature stands before the human community and makes a case for humane and ecologically balanced treatment of their species, get ideas for making puppets, take the previous ideas and have a parade, and get 2 environmental plays/skits you can perform.

Just for Fun

EarthDog - Follow Earth Dog around this site through his story, activities, games and more.

Eddy the Eco Dog - Watch cartoons, laugh at jokes, get writing ideas, play games and more here.

Local Earth Day Events

Earth, Music, Art, & Action: 2002 Earth Day Festival - Get ready for Raleigh's celebration on Sunday, April 21 at Harris Field on the NCSU campus from 1:00-7:00. This year's Earth Day Festival is a multi-cultural, multi-organizational first initiative by the Campus Greens to encourage solidarity, art, and activism in our Raleigh community. It will be free and open to the public.

2002 Durham Earth Day Festival - Head on over to the Historic Durham Athletic Park on Saturday, April 20 from 1:00-6:00 for an eclectic mix of music, great food, hands-on environmental education activities and demonstrations, and much more. This day of awareness will serve as inspiration towards making earth day every day. Join us for the Triangle's largest Earth Day Festival, become a part of the Triangle's environmental community in 2002 and help us create a better world for all! For more information click the link.

Teacher Lesson Plans

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Simple, easy plans sponsored by the Environmental and Agricultural Education Collaboration.

Alliance to Save Energy - Here are some multidisciplinary plans energy plans.

Scholastic Celebrate Earth Day - Check out what Scholastic has put together in honor of this special day.

What on Earth Are You Doing on Earth Day? - Find a collection of 28 Earth Day Activities from across the curriculum.

Activities to Celebrate the 30th Earth Day - Help keep Earth Day alive with these cross-curriculum activities from Education World.

Earth Day from EduPlace - Here's a great collection of ideas and activities to motivate both you and your students.

Environment - Check out these activities from Houghton Mifflin's site.

Watching Over the World - This page from TimeforKids has 3 skill-based activities to help celebrate Earth Day.

Graphics from Kids Domain