Who’s ready to celebrate the Earth? Earth Day is such a great day to get your students outside and thinking about ways to care for the Earth. Whenever I can get my class outside, it’s a huge win! Students are more engaged when they’re in a different environment, so take the opportunity and bring your students outside for Earth Day. These are some outdoor activities to celebrate Earth Day with your students!
5 Outdoor Activities to Celebrate Earth Day
Take a Nature Walk
Line your students up in a long line and walk around the school yard. Ask students to remember what they notice. They can describe what they see, hear, smell etc. Make things interesting by giving students a chance to be the leader and lead the line around the school!
After the nature walk:
– Students draw or write what they saw
– Create a whole class anchor chart of what they noticed
– Discuss how you can take care of the nature around the school
– Students draw or write their favorite part about the nature around the school
Create Pictures with Nature
Give students a few minutes to collect things they find on the ground around the school yard. (No picking leaves off trees!) Once they’ve collected some materials, have them work in pairs or individually to create a picture with what they found. When everyone is done creating their nature picture, have a picture walk and visit everyone else’s pictures!
Use Your Senses
Bring students outside and have them take a seat and quietly use their different senses for a certain amount of time. Then, have students draw or write what they saw, heard, felt, and smelled during that time.
Pick Up Trash
I don’t know what it is about picking up trash but my students LOVE when they have the chance to get outside and clean up the yard. Make it a friendly competition and see who can pick up the most trash!
Plant Something or Water Something Already Planted
Depending on your school and situation you may be able to plant something in the yard together as a class. If you can, first discuss why you would want to plant something in the yard and why it’s important to the Earth. If you can’t plant something, see if you can walk around and water things that are already planted!
Want some other activities to celebrate Earth Day? Check out this blog post. Freebies included!
10 Earth Day Activities You Need to Use With Your Students
How do you celebrate Earth day? Will you be using these outdoor activities to celebrate Earth Day?
