Children's Games for Earth Day
Earth Day occurs on April 22, and it is a time when people gather to be mindful of the environment and the need to take care of it. When you are presenting Earth Day to your students, games are one good way to get them involved and excited about what is going on around them. Use games to teach your students lessons about Earth Day and the importance of being aware of the environment that we live in. Does this Spark an idea?
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Energy Hunt
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One important way to protect the environment is to understand how much energy is used around you every day. Divide the children into groups. Tell each group to locate everything that uses electricity in the classroom. Tell them to be as complete as they can and to list each electrical appliance in the room. The first group to come back with a complete list is the winner.
Earth Day Word Search
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Create a word search puzzle using words related to the environment and print it as a transparency. Place it on the overhead projector. Allow the children to come up one by one to circle the word, allowing the child who has circled the word to explain why the concept is important to the environment. Each child that comes up to find a word and explain it gets a small prize.
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Meet a Tree
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Take the children to a grove of trees, choosing an area that does not have thorns or bushes. Divide the children up into pairs, and have one child in the pair blindfolded. The child who can see leads the blindfolded child to a tree in the area. The blindfolded child touches the tree and tries to memorize how the tree feels under their hands. Then they are led back to the central area and released from the blindfold. Then they see if they can find their tree again. The children then switch places. This gives the children an opportunity to get hands-on with nature.
Circle of String
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Cut 24 inches of yarn for each child, tying each length together at the ends so that it forms a loop. Take the children out to a field or park, and have them set down the loop in a circle on the ground. Give them 15 minutes to examine the ground that they have circled. Ask them what is living in it and what they can observe about the plants and animals. Afterward, have them draw what they saw and write about it. This encourages the children to look carefully at the world around them.
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