Engaging Earth Day Classroom Activity for Students

Earth Day is a great opportunity to engage your students with activities that help them understand more about this great big planet we call home! These activities can happen inside or outside of the classroom and can also tie in to other lessons and topics.

Here are Kodable we have two great Earth Day activities for students that tie into other key learning skills including problem solving and critical thinking skills. Learn more about these activities below and try them out in your own classroom.

Beach Cleanup game

In this Earth Day activity students clean up a beach by collecting litter! This presents students a series of challenges with a different layout of litter to collect on each level. Students collect litter by creating a maze to catch all the litter and then programming their Fuzz (playable character) to complete the maze.

This activity helps teach students the importance of putting instructions in the correct order to achieve a desired outcome. Because each level gets gradually more difficult, students are required to think creatively and use trial and error to find the right solution.

This Beach Cleanup game also provides a great opportunity to teach students about the importance of taking care of our environment by instilling a sense of responsibility for the world around them.

Ready to get started? If you already use Kodable in the classroom you can have students login and select this game from Mission Control.

New to Kodable? Sign up for your free teacher account here or play this game online here.

Download Beach Cleanup learning guide.

Unplugged Beach Cleanup game

Looking for an unplugged Earth Day activity? We made a board game version of our Beach Cleanup activity for students!

Materials needed:

• Beach Cleanup teacher guide
• Scissors
• Tape

Learning objectives:

This activity is a simple counting game that uses all of Kodable's favorite Beach Cleanup

characters to keep our oceans clean! This activity is best for K-3.

Game steps:

1. Have students cut and tape their dice. If this is too challenging, students can cut the outlines and turn them into cards they flip over.
2. Cut out recycling bins, each student gets one.
3. Cut out the pieces of trash. Be sure students have the same amount of trash before they start the game.
4. Have students come up with four other types of trash that may end up in the ocean.Each player keeps two of those cards.
5. Explain that students either roll the dice or pull a card to either add or remove trash from the recycling bin. If a player does not have any to remove, they roll again. First one to recycle all their trash, wins.

Download the teacher guide for this activity here to get started.

Looking for more fun and games in the classroom? Check out our post on educational classroom activities you can try out today.