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Education World: Earth Day
EducationWorld.com is a massive and amazing website for educators — with all kinds of Internet based lesson plans and activities themed around specific subjects and holidays. Just go to the site, type a topic into the search engine, and you will be rewarded with many links to websites that provide information, resources, lessons, curriculum, activities — everything your teaching heart could desire. We’ve featured pages within the Ed World site before at ClickSchooling. Today’s website at Ed World was recommended by list member, Stephanie, and is all about Earth Day, which is on April 22nd. You can create a complete unit study with the resources provided at the site, or just try a few of the suggested activities.
When you get to the site look in the center of the page to find a list of topics that are linked to websites under the heading “Holiday Ideas.” There is a short description of what you will find if you click on the link. Topics for Earth Day include everything from a history of the holiday to a WebQuest about the environment, lessons about endangered species, information on recycling and conservation, gardening ideas, soil explorations, and Earth Day Internet projects.
To the right of the “Holiday Ideas” column you will see the heading “Resources.” Under it are more links to websites archived in the Ed World database about Earth Sciences. You will also find links to Earth Day themed craft activities, music, songs, poems, recipes, games, and more.
Ed World does a great job of making free, Internet-based curriculum and educational resources available to teachers and parent-educators — and Earth Day is just one of many thousands of topics offered at the site. Because the site is so large, and because web addresses change so quickly — you will occasionally find dead links — but overall it is well-maintained. Book mark it — you’ll want to return here often.
