Are you looking for a meaningful Earth Day activit that will not only let your students have fun and show their creativity, but also requires them to conduct research and think critically? This DIGITAL student-centered research project contains over 25 pages of instructional materials that will help guide teachers and students through this activity.
Students will LOVE that they get to learn more about Earth Day and get to create a small project instead of writing an essay about how they can make a difference. Teachers will LOVE that they have a resource that requires little prep and includes EDITABLE templates that allow them to create their own directions, project requirements, and add their own images. Another bonus for teachers is that this product contains a detailed rubric, strong and weak teacher models as well as pictures of the project in action, and a list of suggested websites that students can use for research.
►What’s Included:
• Earth Day Banners Research Handouts: The research handouts contain the assignment, a suggested list of websites that students can use to research, and the option to turn the handouts into a coloring activity. In addition, students will create a list of 5-6 self-generated questions that they will use to conduct their research on Earth Day. There is also space for them to record the information that they gather during the research process.
• Grading Rubric: There are two versions of a detailed rubric that can be used to grade this project. The rubric focuses on these four attributes: focus/purpose, content, organization, and presentation/appearance of banner. One rubric contains a point value assigned to each column and the other rubric does not assign a point value.
• 9 Pre-designed and EDITABLE templates with DIRECTIONS: Banners offer you a variety of options for this project and ways that you can customize the requirements for the banner to better fit the needs of your students. The fully completed banner includes room for a photo, a “Did You Know?”, “Words of Wisdom”, or “Say What” section where they will list 2-3 facts about Earth Day as well as a section for them to explain ways that they can make a difference.
•••(EDITABLE means that you can add text or images to the templates in Google Slides.)•••
• 9 Pre-designed and EDITABLE templates WITHOUT DIRECTIONS: Banners offer you a variety of options for this project and ways that you can customize the requirements for the banner to better fit the needs of your students. The fully completed banner includes room for a photo, a “Did You Know?”, “Words of Wisdom”, or “Say What” section where they will list 2-3 facts about Earth Day as well as a section for them to explain ways that they can make a difference.
•••(EDITABLE means that you can add text or images to the templates in Google Slides. In addition, you can add your own directions for the banners to better suit the needs of your classroom)•••
• Teacher Models: Strong, Medium, and Weak Samples are included so that students can see what the expectations are and can self-assess their own project.
