Display different ways to conserve resources with a set of handy recycling–based foldable interactive notebook templates.
♻️Recycling For Kids – Earth Day Interactive Notebooking
Are your students learning to save and conserve resources at school, at home and in the community? Reducing, reusing, and recycling are essential science topics to discuss with your students in the weeks surrounding Earth Day or any day! This template will help students organise and present their ideas in a fun “lift-the-flap” display.
Encourage your students to put on their thinking caps and think of ways to 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 typically 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 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:
- Have students fold each flipbook in half horizontally, aligning the top and bottom edges so they are even.
- Students cut along the vertical line to separate the front flap into its respective number of pieces.
- Students complete the activity by writing beneath the flap or by pasting the images given to complement the flipbook. Then they can colour 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 Teach Starter Collaborator.
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