♻️Recycling For Kids – Earth Day Interactive Notebooking

Are your students learning about how they can save and conserve resources at school, at home, and in their community? Reducing, reusing, and recycling are important science topics to discuss with your students in the weeks surrounding Earth Day or any day at all! This template will help students organize and present their ideas in a fun “lift-the-flap” display. 

Encourage your students to put on their thinking caps and think of ways that they can reduce, reuse, and recycle. We’ve included a foldable to help you teach your students the following.

• What Do I Know, Want to Know, What I Learned (KWL) Flipbook
• What Can I Recycle? Students will create the foldable, then cut and sort images to show the resources that can/cannot be recycled.
• What Resources Can I Reuse? This foldable presents students with a series of everyday items that would normally be thrown away. They will use this foldable to brainstorm a list of ways they could reuse each item shown.
• How Can I Help the Earth? This foldable has students cutting and sorting images to show the things they should do/should not do in order to help the planet.

Download & Print Your Earth Day Activities

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or editable Google Slides version of this resource.

To assemble this foldable:

1. Have students fold each flipbook in half horizontally, aligning the top and bottom edges so they are even. 
2. Students cut along the vertical line to separate the front flap into its respective number of pieces.
3. Students complete the activity by writing beneath the flap or by pasting the images given to complement the flipbook. Then they can color the cover and decorate it.

This template can then be glued in an interactive notebook, on a piece of construction paper to display, or glued into a manila folder to create an Earth Day Lapbook.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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