Earth Day Short Research Project - Digital Activities

Looking for ways to incorporate research opportunities to your distance learning? This easy-to-use digital notebook will guide your students with research questions and prompts to direct their research about Earth Day.

What teachers are saying about my digital resources:

• "Saved me a ton of time and it was perfect to add to Google Classroom"
• "Exactly what I needed. Thank you!"
• "Fun and well thought out resource!"

Objective -- Your students will be able to:

• research the history of Earth Day
• use reference materials to learn more about how the day came about, what world events led to it
• learn about the impact of the day
• generate ideas of things to do
• research the Endangered Species Act
• explore the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• research an endangered animal
• research an endangered plant
• design and describe an up-cycled item
• create a fact sheet
• evaluate their learning
• write grammar rules for capitalizing the word "Earth"
• import pictures to create a digital collage for what they learned
• create a works cited page

What you'll get:

• digital notebook your students can write in
• the notebook includes prompts - so it's self-directed
• research questions about Earth Day, endangered animals, plants, up-cycling
• teacher resource with tips for getting the most from this
• answer key

This is going to save you so much time!

Ways to use this:

This research notebook is flexible!

• Complete a whole-class study
• Cross-curricular – science and history
• Self-guided
• Provide students with the entire notebook or just the pages you want them to complete

Perfect for Earth Day to expand students’ background knowledge and encourage their curiosity.

Reasons to love this digital resource:

• ready to use today -- just share with your students!
• easy-to-use to incorporate research into your warm ups, workshop time, or centers
• prompts direct students -- helps them control the amount of information they need to find
• makes research fun and interesting!
• a great sub plan!

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With gratitude,

Marypat