Earth Day

• Eco Kids: Online quizzes and printable acitivites in each category
•  Games and Activities- Wildlife, Climate Change, Energy, The North, Waste and Land Use
  • School Energy Audit
• Downloads
• For Teachers: Activities and Printables

An amazing list of activities, clip art, links, on-line quizzes and games.

• Pollution Watch: Type in your postal code to determine what industries are polluting your environment. You can then see a pollution ranking, read about the chemicals, health effects, and take action for your community.

Register for free to access lesson plans to download for Grades 3-8.

On-line teaching units about plastics. View other resources. 

Web pages on: climate change, clean air, nature, clean water, weather and environmental predictions.

Level: Junior, Intermediate, Senior

• Pollution Watch Type in your postal code to determine what industries are polluting your environment. You can then see a pollution ranking, read about the chemicals, health effects, and take action for your community.

• Educator Resource Binder - Click on "Get your copy of the Will Steger Foundation Educator Resource Binder" You can order a print copy or complete an online form and then download the binder sections.

Web pages on: climate change, clean air, nature, clean water, weather and environmental predictions.
Level: Junior, Intermediate, Senior

• Everyday acts of green - add your act of GREEN to the list

Earth’s Birthday Project provides teachers with effective Earth Day related learning resources that are fun, free, or inexpensive and easy to implement in the classroom. 

• Resources
• Ecological Footprint Quiz: Take the online quiz to determine your ecological footprint.

Lesson plans and links to activities for Earth Day.  Printable worksheets and craft ideas included for grades 1-8.

Earth Day lesson plans and activities.

Online quizzes and informations about saving energy.

• Lesson plans by division

Lesson plans for elementary grades on air and water quality.

A 12 page activity booklet in a pdf file that includes fill in the blank pages, quizzes, and coloring pages.

Printable environmental sheets for each letter of the alphabet for primary grades. Click on the letter and then Click on the prompt to print the page. American content but can be adapted for a Canadian classroom.

Level: Primary 

• Environmental Information
• Climate Change
• What pollutes the most? - Print and connect the dots to determine what pollutes the most.
• More colouring sheets with an environmental message. Record the message from each thumbnail image and copy them on chart paper to conserve photocopying. Students can create their own poster from the prompt of their choice.

Read about pollution topics then answer on-line questions. An excellent resource!

Level: Junior, Intermediate

• Learn about pesticides
• Learn how the air becomes dirty (Includes classroom experiments)
• What is a hazardous waste? (Includes classroom experiments)
• Take a test about how you use water (You may want to tale this home to have  your parents help you with the answers

• Educational Resource - p page pdf. Use the menu at the bottom of the page to access.
• Interactive site to determine your consumption footprint. Perhaps the revelation will get you thinking of what you can do to make changes in your way of living.
• Trash talk

A water experiment and math activity. You will have to convert the measures to metric, however a useful exercise.

Activities for students from age 5-12.

A slide presentation explaining how to make and use a compost. Do's and Don'ts are provided. 

Try your hand at shrinking the amount of new material going into a community landfill in this on-line activity.

Level: Junior, Intermediate

Test your knowledge about hazardous waste in your home.

You can Explore the parts of the on-line city to read about recycling, reuse, and waste reduction by Clicking on Go to Recycle City then click any section of the map. 

Or you can play the Dumptown Game as the new City Manager to clean up the city. Click on Go to Recycle City then dumptown game.    

• Environmental Issues: Information about plastics.

Information about Biodiversity and Ecosystems. Quizzes and games are listed. (Compliments the Ontario Grade 6 Life System Strand)

Play online games that explore biodiversity and the environmental changes that effect our planet.

• Fun & Games

Lesson plan and hands on activity.

Teacher's Guide - resources Cursor down to actvities.

Listing of text-based environmental lessons including experiments for K-12.

Read about the facts of acid rain including case studies. Click on Kids' Corner for an explanation of  the pH scale.