This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In “Earth Day Celebrations” - a brief Listen and Read nonfiction story - students learn how children in New York City, Costa Rica, South Korea, and Russia celebrate Earth Day, a holiday that honors our natural environment. The reading activity includes text, images, and audio, so students can read along while listening to a narrator. At the end of the story, a Sound It Out section lets students listen to these vocabulary words a second time: "parade," "trees," "drums," and "recycling."

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This website has lots to offer - people and places to visit and plenty of ways to explore how the city's residents recycle, reduce, and reuse waste. Students can click on any section of Recycle City that they want to tour, or click on the Dumptown Game. They can also create their own Recycle City scavenger hunt or go to the Activities area to see other ways they can explore.

In this short video, students will learn how female loggerhead sea turtles make their way to beaches all along the Atlantic Ocean to lay their eggs.

In this short video, students learn about the butterfly life cycle and how they can help protect and take care of butterflies and moths in their own neighborhood.

In this activity, children will place a seed in soil, care for it, and track the plant?s growth. By caring for a plant, children will contribute to Lady Bird Johnson?s mission of beautification. Observation and measuring skills will be developed through tracking the plant's growth.

This is a problem-solving task focused on recycling.  The number range is multiples of 10 from 100 – 190. Students solve word problems and write a word problem. Extra questions about recycling are included. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students can work in pairs or solo, if you want to let them take them home afterwards, to design/make a birdhouse from recycled materials. The students will use their knowledge of what animals need for survival as well as information regarding recycling and helping the environment

This book helps students understand how important it is to protect our environment.

Students sort trash that has been left in an estuary ecosystem by determining what can be recycled.

In this lesson, students demonstrate reuse and recycling practices by selecting recyclable materials and repurposing them.

This is additional curriculum for the Untamed Science video series created in a partnership between the North Carolina Zoo and videographer Rob Nelson. You are meant to watch the original videos about Gopher Frogs and Hellbenders, and then open the PDF resource below to learn how you can help conserve these precious amphibians!

This is additional curriculum for the Untamed Science video series created in a partnership between the North Carolina Zoo and videographer Rob Nelson. You are meant to watch the original video and then open the PDF resource below to put your skills to the test and find out what it takes to be a zoo veterinarian! The answer key is in a separate PDF.

This is additional curriculum for the Untamed Science video series created in a partnership between the North Carolina Zoo and videographer Rob Nelson. You are meant to watch the original video and then open the PDF resource below to learn what it takes to be a SMART Ranger! SMART (Spatial Monitoring And Reporting Tool) is an app that was created in partnership with the North Carolina Zoo. Click the link above to learn more!

This is additional curriculum for the Untamed Science video series created in a partnership between the North Carolina Zoo and videographer Rob Nelson. You are meant to watch the original video and then open the PDF resource below to become a scientist and track your own vulture!

Students use data and satellite images to examine how human actions can degrade, improve, or maintain the quality of each resource. Then they will analyze and interpret graphc data to make recommendations for improving future use of these resources.

Students will explain the need to reduce the amount of trash they generate and describe ways in which they can make changes in their actions to support waste reduction. Students will collect, record, and interpret data using a variety of graphic representations.

In this lesson, students learn where and how to properly dispose of and recycle items in their local area. Students will use art supplies to create a create a poster that displays the information.

Students will discuss how they can protect nature at their current age and as they become adults.