This editing and revising learning activity, ‘A Water Rescue’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This article, ‘Bagging Plastic’, provides information about how plastic bags are harming the environment. It is aimed at broadening students’ environmental awareness and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Composting’ asks students to answer questions about how to build a compost pile. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make predictions and form opinions.
This article, ‘Reusing and Recycling: From Trash to Treasure’, provides information about reusing and recycling. It is aimed at broadening students’ environmental awareness and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Is This the Greenest School?’, profiles an ‘eco-school’ in Australia. It explains what the students at this school are doing to help the environment and encourages students to participate in environmental activities.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Letter about an Environmental Issue’, features instructions for students to write a letter to the editor about an environmental issue of their choosing. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest topics such as global warming, toxic waste, pollution, endangered species, open space, and …More
This writing prompt, ‘Making the World a Better Place’ helps students to write about one thing they would change in order to make the world a better place. It encourages students to think about making a difference and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Planting a Tree’ asks students to answer questions about choosing and planting a tree. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Recycling’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This writing prompt, ‘Reuse and Recycle’ helps students to write about how they can help reuse and recycle things. It encourages students to think about caring for the environment and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Save Our Streams’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a letter written by a boy who is concerned about water pollution.
This article, ‘Taking Out the Techno Trash’, explains the proper ways to recycle electronics. It is aimed at broadening students’ environmental awareness and includes colourful and engaging images.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Planting of the Apple Tree’ asks students to answer questions about a poem by William Cullen Bryant. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The School Is One Big Bird Feeder!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about school students planting trees in their neighbourhood.
This article, ‘Water Crisis’, provides information about Australia’s water crisis. It is aimed at broadening students’ environmental and geographical awareness and includes colourful and engaging images.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘You and the Environment’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This hands-on activity, ‘Make Your Own Recycled Paper’ provides step-by-step instructions for students to follow in the classroom or at home. This resource guides students through the process of making their own paper from scrap paper and supports students in understanding the paper recycling process by giving them hands-on experience of trying it themselves. This …More