Earth Day Games

I find I skim over Earth day and this past year I finally got frustrated with myself and sat down and designed a few games for the kids so that by playing all the games, my students would really learn about reduce, reuse, and recycle.  At our school we have different bins for recycling but the kids seem to have some confusion what goes where.  I found after my students played these games for about 2 weeks, they really knew what things were recyclable and what items they could reuse again.  And I found the kids asking each other instead of me and that was just awesome to see!!!  I did save the games for Earth Day but I think this year I will get the kids to play it at the beginning of the year(because shouldn't every day be Earth Day?) so it will help them learn about recycling and in turn help recycle properly at our school.  





So this package includes 4 different Earth Day games the students can play during centre time or just on their own after learning about Earth Day and how to recycle and compost.  By the end of all the games, children should be able to recognize familiar items that could recycle, reuse, compost or have to be thrown in the garbage.  The package also includes the following:
  •          A Few Activity Ideas
  •        A Few Activity Worksheets
  •         History of Earth Day
  •         Recycling information for teachers
  •         List of pictures in the package
  •          Cheat Sheets for Reference
  •         72 medium size picture cards (colour and black & white)
  •          72 smaller size picture cards (colour and black & white)
  •          Back cover for smaller picture cards
  •         Large labels for sorting activity (whole class)
  •         Cover Up Game
  •          Help Save the Earth Game
  •          Go Recycle! Game
  •         I Love Recycling! Game
  •          Mini Poster (colour  and black & white)
  •          Black and white slides from the colour slides
  •          Earth Day Kids Online Games List of Links
  •          Earth Day Links and Suggested Books
I love using folders and avery labels and with some of the game boards, I just print it out on a whole page avery label and just stick it right on.  You can find this in my TPT store at the following link:

     http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Games
     OR
     at my TeachersNotebook shop at the following link:
     http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/kemble_flynn/earth-day-games

      Enjoy!!

      Kemble :-)

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