Looking to take your learners outside for this year’s Earth Day? Check out the amazing resources below curated to help inspire integrating Environmental and Climate Change Education into your Earth Day Celebrations. On top of the below resources, we wanted to share some helpful resources for navigating climate anxiety with your learners this Earth Day.

• GreenLearning: How to Help Your Students Cope with Eco-Anxiety
• KidsHelpPhone: Resources and Tips for Navigating Eco-Anxiety
• Ontario Nature: Navigating Eco-Anxiety: How to Stay Positive and Take Action

Resources for all ages:

• Earth Matters Board Game from the Outdoor Learning School and Store
• Solutions Board Game – Educators Edition
• 10 fun and easy activities to do with your students this Earth Day! No planning is needed!
• Think Earth Environmental Education Foundation has a grade specific units to teach students on how we use natural resources, what causes waste and pollution, and what we can all do to help keep our environment clean and health.
• Project Learning Tree has a whole toolkit of resources, lesson plans, and activities to help integrate Earth Day into your classroom. Check out their 2025 Earth Day Toolkit 
• Outdoor Learning Classroom Resources from Evergreen has a collection of learning materials and curriculum-connected lesson plans to support children and youth engaging with the natural world.

K-3:

• Art: Have fun making Nature Collages outside for Earth Week!
• Math: Celebrate Earth Day all month long with this full month calendar of Earth Day Math Learning Centres.
• Science: Trees & Me: Activities for Exploring Nature with Young Children from Project Learning Tree offers resources, lesson plans, and activities for engaging young children ages 1–6 in nature, with a focus on trees.
• Social Studies/ Language Arts: Using the book “Sila and the Land”, GreenLearning has lesson plans to integrate this story into your lesson and take your learning further. Check out the lesson plans:
  • Climate Justice Through Action Art
  • Choices and Consequences
• Science/ Social Studies: Earth Rangers Earth Day Celebration Podcast! A great little activity to listen and have your learners participate while they eat a snack or during some downtime!

Grade 4-8: 

• Language Arts: Celebrate Earth Day with this interactive Nature Journal that has kiddos practicing writing, searching with a scavenger hunt and getting crafty!
• Science: This Animal Seed Dispersal Game gets students outdoors to learn how some trees use squirrels to disperse their seeds. Have students design a new method of seed dispersal for an animal of their choice.
• Phys Ed, Language, Science, Social Studies: Head outside and have fun with these Climate Change activities to inspire personal action and environmental stewardship with your students!
• Multi-Curricula: NASA Climate Kids has a variety of resources, activities, lesson plans, and games for teaching climate change education to your students.
• ECO 360 from GreenLearning features activities for learners in junior grades (grades 3 – 8). Feel free to use any of the resources on your own or bundle them together to take action and register for the Eco 360 Challenge.

Grade 9-12:

• Social Studies/ Science: Climate Education Teacher Toolkits that have ready-to-use resources, simulators, and lesson plans for integrating climate education into your classroom. Materials for one lesson or a week of lessons, this resource is great for anyone looking to introduce climate and environmental education into their classroom this Earth Month!
• English/ Social Studies/ Science: A variety of interactive activities and lessons have already been created to teach your high school students topics of foresting, endangered species, benefits, ways to make your home more earth-friendly, and much more.
• Science: Interactive science games and activities that fit across science curricula to incorporate Earth Day learning in your classroom!
• Science/ Social Studies: Earth Month is the perfect time to introduce (or reintroduce) your students to the Sustainability Goals. MCIC has ready-to-go lesson plans for specific age groups between K-12, resources, and guides to support K-12 educators (both French and English) teaching the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to your students.
• Science: Explore the origin and impact of plastics with your learners by exploring one of GreenLearning’s plastic-focused lesson plans.

French Resources:

• Découvrez ces ressources en français de GreenLearning
• Ressource pédagogique | Le Jour de la Terre – Lire ONF
• Jour de la Terre – Activités d’apprentissage
• Environnement et Jour de la Terre | Service national du RÉCIT à l’éducation préscolaire
• Réseau In-Terre-Actif – Journée internationale de la Terre nourricière (Jour da la terre)
• Jour de la Terre – Le français à l’école primaire – CSDM
• 31 livres pour souligner le Jour de la Terre et parler de l’écologie, de l’environnement, de la pollution et du mouvement zéro déchet
• 16 documentaires sur l’environnement à visionner gratuitement

Professional Learning Resources: 

• Book: People’s Curriculum for the Earth 
• Book: Groundswell: Indigenous Knowledge and a Call to Action for Climate Change
• Book: Teaching Kids about Climate Change 
• Book: Teaching Teens about Climate Change
• Podcast: Take Me Outside Podcast – Technology, Climate Change, and Eco-Spirituality with Dr. Jenellen Good
• Podcast: Green Teacher Podcast (Now Take Me Outside Podcast) – Engaging Children in Climate/Waste Solutions
• Watch: Climate and Sustainability Education Games and Resources – Seasonal Workshop Recording (Feb 4 2025)
• Watch: Enhancing Climate Change Education Through Active Learning – Seasonal Workshop Recording (Feb 27 2024)