Conservation

If you looked in your garbage can or recycling bin right now, you are likely find a collection of cardboard boxes, cartons, jars, and other containers considered by most to be junk. Do you have a hard time throwing that "junk" away, thinking of all the possibilities of what it could become? Good news – you don’t have to! Read on as eBay shares some unique ways to reuse old containers and give them new life, saving them from the landfill!

Simple Dr. Seuss Lorax snacks. Truffula seeds trix cereal

Earth day is coming up on April 22nd. Here is a great list of earth day crafts that your preschooler will love doing with you.

A simple crown of grass. Perfect activity way for your preschooler to celebrate summer!

As part of Read Across America Week, Bloomfield schoolchildren celebrated the whimsical author's birthday with imaginative projects.

If your students aren’t excited about STEM the problem might be a lack of exposure to real-world challenges. Real-world problem solving should be at the core of any STEM education program. It increases student buy-in as students realize that their work has an impact that extends beyond the classroom walls. It also helps students develop empathy as they take a walk in someone else’s shoes in order to understand the problems they face before coming up with potential solutions.

I was inspired by two different Earth Day crafts from Pinterest, and I decided to combine the two. You can find the original pictures {here} and {here}. The children will use the recycled materials: cardboard, empty liter soda bottles, white paper, and paint to make a cherry blossom tree, or apple tree. I decided to combine two Earth Day crafts that I found on Pinterest {I am sure you have seen these too!}. The first one is a Cherry Blossom Tree from Alpha Mom. She made it look so beautiful…

Hey ya'll! I'm one of those "Earth Day every day" people. I am a stickler for reusing, recycling, and trying to live as green as I can. Needless to day, I {heart} Earth Day! Are you interested in becoming a little more "green" too? It is really not that hard, and just a few little changes to your daily routine can help. One bigger change I made last year was that I joined an organic CSA. A CSA is an acronym for Crop Sharing agriculture. Basically, we buy a "share" of a local organic farm…

Shaving cream marbled Earth Day craft for kids to make! These paper plates look so awesome! | CraftyMorning.com

Free Earth Day Mini Book for Kindergarten and spring. Teach a little about Earth Day this April. This mini-book can help. Read the book with students, then brainstorm things they can do to help on Earth Day. On the last page students can draw their ideas and write a matching sentence. There are 7 pages in this mini book. You can print and use all the pages or just the ones that you prefer to use. The last page is blank to allow students to create their own. This is a great way to build…

Earth Week continued today with our lesson on saving the planet. We each thought about parts of nature and the earth that we love the most. We talked about the things we could do to protect the earth and the parts of it we love. It's a lot of work protecting the planet but we can all do our part! Later we worked on a fun project to help display the parts of the planet we love. We started by taking a photo of ourselves pretending to hold up the whole world! We then added our hand print to…

Free Earth Day Mini Book for Kindergarten and spring. Teach a little about Earth Day this April. This mini-book can help. Read the book with students, then brainstorm things they can do to help on Earth Day. On the last page students can draw their ideas and write a matching sentence. There are 7 pages in this mini book. You can print and use all the pages or just the ones that you prefer to use. The last page is blank to allow students to create their own. This is a great way to build…

Earth Day is Everyday classroom activities: Includes ideas about an Earth Day bulletin board, art activities, book suggestions, and a writing FREEBIE!

Free color by sight words for Earth Day