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🌱 Caring for Our Environment

Our Earth is a wonderful home for everyone. Learn simple, happy ways to keep the land, water, and air clean and healthy.

3
lessons
~15 min
to learn
🔬 Science
subject
Ages 6–12
level
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What you’ll learn

  1. Our Beautiful EarthLearn that the environment is everything around us and why keeping it clean matters.The Earth is a home we all share. The environment is everything around us: land, water, air, plants, and animals. When we keep it clean, places look lovely and animals stay safe and happy.
  2. Ways to HelpLearn to reduce, reuse, and recycle, and to sort recycling from trash.Three easy ways to help all start with R: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Recycling turns old paper and bottles into new things. We can also save water by turning off the tap. Little actions add up.
  3. Little HelpersConnect helpful actions to how they care for the environment.Every kind action helps the Earth. Planting trees makes fresh air, picking up litter keeps parks clean, and recycling saves trees. Even little helpers can do big things when we all care for our world together.

Questions this course answers

What is the environment?

The environment is everything around us: the land, water, air, plants, and animals.

Why should we keep our world clean?

Keeping the world clean makes it look lovely and keeps animals safe and healthy.

What does recycling do?

Recycling turns old things like paper and bottles into new things, so they are not wasted.

Which of these goes in the recycle bin?

An empty plastic bottle can be recycled, so it goes in the recycle bin.

How can you save water while brushing your teeth?

Turning off the tap while you brush stops water from being wasted.

Why is planting a tree good for the Earth?

Trees make fresh air, give shade, and make homes for birds, so planting one helps the Earth.

Grounded in trusted sources

  • National Geographic Kids
  • NASA Climate Kids
  • Britannica Kids
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency

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