Best Online Earth Day Activities and Games for Kids
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Each year, Earth Day is celebrated on April 22, and it's a great time to teach our kids how to take better care of the Earth. These online Earth Day activities for kids are a great way to help children learn more about environmental issues and how we can help at home.
They are simple and educational, perfect for your homeschool lesson plans this time of year. Many of these are online games and are a fun way to learn more about recycling, reusing, and what things we can do to help the planet.
Best Earth Day Activities for Kids Online
If you need some new easy Earth Day activities, here are some of the best online options your kids will love.
Digital Cleanup Day
You probably teach a lot about the environment on Earth Day, but what about Digital trash? Your kids can learn how “digital trash” affects global warming, and the entire family can sign up for this yearly online event here.
Virtual Field Trip
This website has a great list of options if you're looking to fill your homeschool Earth Day lesson plans with a virtual field trip. Great way to explore the world on a tight budget, right from your own home.
Home Recycling Survey
Your kids can take this short recycling survey to see how well they currently reduce, reuse, and recycle…and maybe learn a better way to use their resources along the way!
Starfall – Every Day is Earth Day
With clear instructions, this short online earth day game will have children walking along the river and cleaning up recyclable materials as they go. Kids will be picking up paper, cans, and plastic and properly disposing of them in the correct recycling bin. As they go through the game they will learn how to recycle and where each type of item should go. This activity is best for young students.
NASA’s Virtual Earth Day
Celebrate Earth Day with NASA as they host part of their Earth Day celebrations event online. The celebration will be live on April 22nd and you should expect live games, talks, and chats with scientists from around the world. It's free to register, and open to anyone!
Sesame Street Go Green Game
Younger kids can help Grover protect the earth by using Oscar’s Trash Blaster. Grover will also help kids go through different steps they can help the planet. One of the activities is to help plant Abby’s garden.
A.J’s Recycle Reuse Game
Help A.J. go through his local park and help clean it up by recycling the items people have left on the ground. Some of the items that you pick up can be reused to create new helpful items so children will have to choose whether to reuse or recycle.
The Cat in the Hat Super Cleaner Upper
Help the Cat in the Hat clean up as he jumps up and down and through the area. Kids can choose to recycle or compost the materials they find.
PBS: Break it Down
With this fun game, young kids can help Plum decompose the waste that is found in the jungle. Between the old logs, fallen fruit, and other things, kids will learn more about how things decompose.
Landfill Bill
Bill has taken control of the landfill and it’s up to you to help him clean it up. He needs to help his boss save money by recycling the material in the landfill so that he can keep his job. Each item you recycle helps him earn money.
Plan it Green
From Nat Geo Games, Plan it Green is all about turning Greenville into the greenest city ever. Kids will get a list of different tasks that need to be done in order to help the city go green.
Earth Day Drag and Drop Puzzle
With this fun online Earth Day game, kids will be dragging and dropping the items to the place where they need to go in order to help our Earth stay clean.
Earth Day Word Search
A fun online word search game for kids to play, this word search focuses on words that you would recognize for Earth Day. Just like a normal word search game, the kids will find the words within the puzzle and highlight them.
Twin the Bin
Help place the objects in the correct bin. Kids will have to choose whether to place the items in the paper or plastic bins as they learn more about recycling.
Recycle Roundup
In this fun online Earth Day activity, kids will help Gus make the park a better place by sorting all the trash he finds in the area.
Climate Restoration Lesson
Finally, here's one for your older students! Kids can take this environmental education course online at their own pace. It’s all about climate change and restoration, and ways that you can help restore the climate to protect the planet.
Michael, Michael, Go Recycle
It’s Michael’s job to help clean up all the litter in the park and stop those litterbugs before time runs out. As Michael helps clean up, he will teach the little bugs how to stop littering and help them become better at taking care of the planet.
E.ON Energy Champions
Kids can strive to become an E.ON Energy Champion as they collect as much of the waste dropped by the workers. After they collect the waste, thy will need to put it into the correct recycle bins.
The Greenhouse Effect
The Greenhouse Effect is an educational interactive that allows children to see the surface temperature. As you learn on Earth Day, this would be a great activity to go along with your Greenhouse Effect or global warming studies.
Take Online Earth Day Classes
In addition to each of these activities, online platforms like Outschool can be a great resource for Earth Day learning activities for your kids.
Simply do a quick search for “Earth Day” on their website and you'll see a variety of classes, clubs, and fun activities for elementary students. I even noticed classes featuring Earth Day art projects, making an earth day craft, and learning environmental protection.
Not just for Earth Day, Outschool classes are a simple way to help your kids learn about earth science and building a better future any time of the year.
Enjoy Teaching Your Kids About Earth Day
Learning to take care of planet Earth and be good stewards is very important, and there are many different ways we can help our kids understand the part they can play. I hope this gives you a few new ideas for fun earth day activities your kids can do online!
And leave a comment below: do you know of any other online Earth Day events (virtual field trips, games, etc.) you can share that your kids have loved?
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