Use these resources from Social Studies and the Young Learner (SSYL), Middle Level Learning (MLL), Social Education (SE), National Geographic Society, and the Earth Day Network to teach your students about the environment, how to take care of our Earth, and advocate for change.

Elementary Teaching Resources

• SSYL - The Climate is A-Changin': Teaching Civic Competence for a Sustainable Climate
• SSYL - The First Earth Day, 1970: Examining Documents to Teach about Civic Engagement
• SSYL - Science, Media, and Civic Literacy: Rachel Carson's Legacy for the Citizen Activist
• National Geographic Society - Introduction to Earth Day

Middle Level Teaching Resources

• MLL - Ducks Ahoy! Plastic Debris and Ocean Currents
• MLL - Whose Responsibility is it to Protect the Amazon?
• PBS - Earth Days: The First Earth Day

Secondary Teaching Resources

• SE - Climate Change in the Social Studies Classroom: A Why and How to Guide Using the C3 Framework
• SE - Justice and Responsibility in a Changing Climate
• SE - Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai: Connecting Trees, Civic Education, and Peace
• SE - Standing: Who Can Sue to Protect the Environment?
• SE - Searching for the Seventies: Photographs from the Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA Project