Around this time of the year, it’s crunch time to meet all the standards. With Earth Day just around the corner, I have a lot of standards I need to meet and that I’ve been holding onto until the big day came around. Yes, we have been learning here and there from our Biomes of the World unit but Earth Day sums up a lot of learning goals in my classroom!

They worked collaboratively (thank you, GLAD!) on planting the seeds in their table group pots. Now each table group has a beautiful pot of… dirt! Germination should hopefully happen within the next week so we can begin working on collecting plant data before the big test. Every year I use Kelly from Appleslices Plant Power activity to collect our data during the growth of their plants. It’s a perfect activity to practicing data collection and graphing.

While our plants our growing, we go back to our standards and our first conversations to build 10 ways to save the earth using The Happy Earth Book. I have them discuss and come up with 10 ways with their groups. Students have the choice to work on all 10 together, or split it up to be efficient. This not only meets our science standards but also hits a few ELA ones! Loving using these writing craftivities to enhance our lessons and reflect on all of studying of our earth.