Earth Day – Don’t Let That Balloon Go!

Looking for a meaningful way to celebrate Earth Day in your classroom?

This captivating comic is a unique, visual activity that will instantly engage your students while sparking important conversations about caring for our planet.

We’ve all let go of a balloon or watched them float into the sky, but what many don’t realize is that balloons don’t just disappear. What goes up must come down! When balloons return to Earth, they become litter and a serious danger to wildlife.

This colorful, print-and-go comic illustrates the problem in a way students of all ages can relate to. Use it as a discussion starter, a reading activity, or simply as a powerful reminder that protecting the planet starts with small choices, like holding on to your balloons.

This Earth Day download includes-

Color Content

• Vivid and engaging illustrations
• Covers content in a visual format, making it accessible to a wide range of learners
• Print as a handout or a poster (Awesome anchor chart)

Black Line Copy

• Easy to print and distribute
• Students can color the comic while you discuss the topic

Doodle Notes

• Guided Note style Doodle Notes
• A great addition to interactive notebooks

Answer Key for the Doodle Notes

Easel Activity

• Upload directly to your virtual classroom
• Assigned as homework

NGSS Standards- Human Impact

• Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth’s environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. (MS-ESS3-3)
• Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise. (MS-ESS3-3),(MS-ESS3-4)

More FREE Earth Day Comics!

Help the Honeybees Comic

*Doodle Notes is a trademarked term used with permission. Please visit www.Doodlenotes.org for more information.

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!

**Doodle Notes is a trademarked term used with permission. Please visit www.Doodlenotes.org for more information.