Celebrating Earth Day
To celebrate Earth Day, our Long Distance Library lesson for today will focus on all things related to our Earth and what we can do to protect it and those who share it. Click here to watch my video and it will get us started. After that, choose from the links below to celebrate Earth Day right here in our little corner of the world. |
Click here to visit the National Geographic Kids website. Here you can read a little more about Earth Day, find out how it got started, and just what we can do to help take care of our plant. There's also a great video with weird but true facts about our planet. |
There's so much on PebbleGo that we can explore that's related to Earth Day. Go to the animals database and learn about animals, both wild and tame. Check out the science database where you can learn about the Earth, weather, space, and plants. You can learn more about taking care of the Earth in the social studies database by clicking on People and the Environment. You can get to PebbleGo by clicking here. | Did you know that almost 71% of the Earth is covered with water? There are so many strange and beautiful animals that live in those waters. Many that have never been discovered. If you'd like to learn more about those animals, you can click here to visit the live webcams at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. You can see otters, penguins, sharks, and lots of other ocean animals by visiting their webcams. They even have narrated live feedings! Check those out! |
Now let's get to some stories with an Earth Day theme. Click here to visit Storyline Online and listen to the story Here Comes the Garbage Barge written by Jonah Winter. This is a mostly true story about a barge covered with garbage. There's a North Carolina connection to the book. Give a listen and see if you can find it. |
TumbleBooks has a list of books that are all Earth Day related. Click here to visit the TumbleBooks website and choose a few of those to enjoy. There are some that are nonfiction as well as the fiction ones. What can you learn about our Earth by reading some of these? | Our final link for this Earth Day may be the best! What could be better than hearing a real life astronaut read you a book from space? Click here to visit the Story Time from Space website. Here you can choose from a selection of stories read aloud by astronauts on the International Space Station. They even do science experiments that you can watch, too. |