Earth Day Tips- Coloring Pages & Activities for Middle School

This is more than your ordinary Earth Day coloring page! This print-and-go science comic makes reading FUN. These Earth Day activities and puzzles are geared toward 4th-grade, 5th-grade, and middle school and will keep them ENGAGED.

Overview

Whether it is Earth Day or any day, we all have the power to help the planet. These Earth Day activities will instantly engage your middle school learners. Even simple, everyday practices can do a lot to help the environment. Reduce, reuse, recycle, use less water, walk more, carpool, use reusable water bottles- these are all things you can do to help a little.

What do you get?

Earth Day Tips Comic

Highly visual and engaging content
Color and B&W
Print up as a handout, poster, or anchor chart
A great addition to interactive science notebooks
Makes a great Earth Day coloring page
Get off the screens and put reading in their hands

Guided Notes

Fill-in-the-blank style guided notes
Solidifies understanding and keeps students involved
Another great addition to interactive science notebooks
A good homework option

One Pager Templates

Learners create comics teaching about ways we can help the planet
Multiple templates included enabling room for creativity
Rubric included

Earth Day Activities Page

Answer Keys

What makes Cool School Comics such an impactful learning tool?

They are FUN!

This is the most crucial benefit.
Students are more willing to participate and more engaged.
The content STICKS.

Visual learning is EFFECTIVE.

About 65% of the population consists of visual learners.
Visual information is processed faster.
Students who SEE information are more likely to retain it.

EASY to implement!

These lesson plans are complete and ready to go, requiring minimal prep time.
You only need to make copies, upload supplementals to your virtual classrooms, and set up the hands-on activities.
Lots of flexibility! You can print these as posters, add them to interactive notebooks, hand them out to students, or share them virtually. There is plenty of room for modifications.

ACTIVE LEARNING

Every lesson plan has a low-prep, wallet-friendly, hands-on component.
Instructions are in a visual format
Follow-up questions or a lab report are always included

Comics make content ACCESSIBLE

Naturally differentiated, comics accommodate a wide range of learning abilities and styles.
Great for classrooms with a diverse population of learners
They can simultaneously rope in both your gifted and struggling students (and everyone in between).
Reluctant readers gravitate toward comics.
Comics help English Language Learners (ESL, ELL) and some SPED students find success.

Be the hip teacher seizing the graphic novels craze. Your students will LOVE it!

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