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Children will identify products that come from trees and practice tree conservation.

Social Studies Focus: Earth Day

Science Focus: trees

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• Perfect for Earth Day, this beautiful story is about people planting trees all over the world.
• As the trees grow up, they give back— and make the world a much better place to live!

• Work together to fi nd and circle each exclamation point in the issue.
• Then use a different color marker to find and circle each question mark.

Skill: conservation

Materials: Make Earth Day Crayons instruction sheet, old crayons, muffin tin

• Children learned from the issue that it’s important to save paper. Now teach them that it’s important to save crayons, too!
• Have kids sort out any broken or too-short crayons in your classroom supply. Then follow the steps on the sheet.
• Children can help with steps like removing the wrappers and placing the crayons in the tin.
• When finished, make art with your new crayons!