seventh grade lesson plans

Do you need new Earth Day and Science lesson plan ideas? Are you a collector of environmental science games, PowerPoints, activities, worksheets and crafts?

 

These lesson plans are great for 

• stay at home parents with virtual home schoolers 

• seventh school teachers 

• substitute teachers

• daycare school teachers

• after school latchkey caretakers

• babysitters

 

We created lesson plans designed around the importance of recycling, natural resources, community building development, Download our free third grade lesson plans which include:

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• Step by step guided lesson plans, activity guides, printable e-books, PowerPoint presentations, games, and worksheets for environmental education. Guiding you and your third graders to answer questions like:

  • What are natural resources and what can we do to reduce our dependence on them?

    Where do our trash and recycling go after we put throw them away?

  • What is waste and how do humans activities produce it?

  • How can I recycle at my home and school?

  • How does recycling affect our environment?

  • What is conservation?

  • What is a waste disposal system?

  • What are the origins of pollution in the atmosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere?

  • How do human activities (surface mining, deforestation, overpopulation, construction and urban development, farming, dams, landfills and restoring natural areas) change the surface of the Earth and affect the survival of organisms?

  • What are the three things you can do every day to conserve natural resources?

  • Why have some species of plants and animals become extinct?

  • Which disposal method has the least environmental impact?

  • What is composting?

  • What's the difference between natural resources, materials and recycled material?

  • What is recycling and how can we do it at our homes and school?

  • How does pollution impact habitats, climatic change, and threaten or endanger species?

  • How do we reduce, re-use and recycle and why is it important? 

• Green Living Science educational Youtube videos

• Hands on and craft making

• Earth science and using the inquiry science process

• Outside activities

• Waste Disposal Pie Graph and a worksheet to go along with a YouTube video about waste, recycling and materials

• Charades game in groups to encourage students to engage in creativity and silliness 

• Step-by-step explanation of how a plastic bottle becomes recycled into another plastic bottle

• Have students practice using prediction and hypothesis

• Matching and sorting game for materials, recyclable materials and natural resources 

• Set goals with students for recycling at home and school

• Create a booklet about how we can help take care of our environment 

• Passport game to get students to practice reducing, re-using and recycling at home

• Partnered and group activities

• Writing assignment 

• Venn diagram activity

• Tests

• Reduce, re-use and recycle game

• Recycling posters to create for school and home

• Help students develop critical thinking and memory building skills

• Encourage student ownership of their school community with a clean-up activity

• Guided activities for students to repeat monthly to teach them about recycling and trash pick-up

 

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