Earth Day Depth and Complexity Low-Prep Activity Pack
Looking for a wide selection of low-prep Earth Day activities that use the Depth & Complexity framework? This activity pack has language arts, social studies, math, and science activities, all in one great resource perfect for 4th grade through 8th grade. You'll find Earth Day persuasive writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, a Depth and Complexity frame to complete, a color-by-code activity, multiple Earth Day Science activities and even Earth Day math!
If you like celebrating holidays with quality activities and not filler fluff, you're going to love this. Students will gain a deep understanding of Earth Day while they grow critical thinking skill (and even get in some needed test prep!).
What you get:
⭐ An original short story about Earth Day (with three levels for different abilities of readers)
⭐ Analysis questions in list and task-card formats
⭐ Multiple-choice reading comprehension questions (with key)
⭐ An original non-fiction passage (in three levels for easy differentiation)
⭐ A task card secret code game covering the non-fiction passage
⭐ Four short-answer writing prompts with rubric⭐ An persuasive essay writing prompt with graphic organizer, extra helps, and a rubric
⭐ A differentiated color-by-code activity that reviews the details students have learned about Earth Day
⭐ An Earth Day Depth and Complexity frame with image analysis and rubric
⭐ Two versions of a great measuring triangular prisms (5th grade standards) review
⭐ Great Pacific Garbage Patch science activities (reading passage, video, and application)
⭐ Marine Biologist Earth Day mock field trip activity with original, authentic videos and super cool accompanying activities
You may use any or all of the activities. Mix and match!
✅ If you've been looking for a quality Earth Day activity to use with students, this is the answer!
When and How to Use this Earth Day Resource:
✔ The activities are designed to be done as a class, but they'd make great centers, too!
✔ They're flexible - use one or all!
✔ Most of the activities are VERY low-prep, so use them when you're in a hurry
✔ You'll LOVE the variety for your different ability learners, so if you love differentiation, it's perfect!
You will find it incredibly easy to have students engage in high-level thinking activities and practice critical skills while learning about Earth Day.
Frequently Asked Questions:
- Do I have to be a Depth and Complexity expert to use this? Absolutely not! You can have students ignore the Depth & Complexity symbols if you like, or you can mention that it's a way to think deeply about something. You can dive right in to the Framework if you like. No matter what you choose to do, the resource will work for you.
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I have heard that some teachers didn't have time to do all of the activities in the Depth and Complexity Activity Pack. There are so many options! There is no need to do them all, so no pressure. Because there are Earth Day Depth and Complexity activities from all four core content areas, there is more than you could use in one year unless you're having different students work on different pieces. All pieces work perfectly alone or in combination, so feel comfortable using whatever you like.
NOTES:
✔️This product assumes familiarity with the Depth & Complexity framework, but if you don't use it, you can just ignore the symbols.
✔️There are two pages of special helps for using the resource in Google Classroom™. Not all of the pages are in the Google Slides version because they're teacher resources or black and white versions.
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