Get students to inquire, think and create for Earth Day
Encourage curiosity, promote inquiry, and get students to think and create for Earth Day.
Wixie provides a digital canvas students can use to share ideas, raise awareness, and promote change for Earth Day.
Built-in activities with an Earth Day Theme
Wixie's Templates library includes a range of templates and activities you can assign immediately to build logic, math, vocabulary, and writing skills.
Wixie's Month-by-Month activities
Infographics
Students create an infographic to share knowledge and data about an issue or topic they are studying.
Public Service Announcements
Students create a public service announcement to educate people about an issue they are passionate about.
Animal Interviews
Students interview endangered or threatened animals to demonstrate understanding of human impact on the environment.
Retell Events
Students retell events from a field trip, interview with a scientist, or another Earth Day activity.
Comics
Having students showcase their ideas using comics to make learning relevant and fun! This sample is a student combining knowledge of soil with a story based on Doreen Cronin's Diary of a Worm.
Upcycle
Students design and create upcycled products using materials collected at home and school.
Give students choice
Use this choice board to put students in charge of the activities they will do for Earth Day.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Earth Day Newspapers
Today we used Wixie to create a newspaper article about Earth Day and how we can help our planet! @CopperHillES @FlemRarSchools #wixie pic.twitter.com/jHYzegrYf6
— Jeff Moore (@MooreClassroom) April 20, 2023 -
Raise Awareness
Creating Protect our Earth posters on WIXIE! @Edgemere_BCPS pic.twitter.com/HRqJKkydNW
— Ms. Gargano (@MsGarganoEES) June 7, 2017
3 Rs
Hung out in first grade today so my 💚 was extra full. We used #Wixie to create a presentation about the 3Rs. @montclair_elem @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/7hwQhpENK6
— Tina Katz (@thefrogpond102) April 27, 2023
Erosion Protection Plans
The All Stars are working on their design task using WIXIE. Keep an eye out for our finished products next week! #frsd @CopperHillES @MrsServetnick #CHProud #civilengineers pic.twitter.com/CanAPwPM4j
— Margaret Gerlach (@mgerlach2) March 22, 2024
Water Protectors
2nd grade read We are Water Protectors and created in Wixie to share why it is important to keep the water clean. We used dictionaries to help with spelling and even got to share our creations with the class. #BucknellStrong @MissFavors17 pic.twitter.com/KEGNDAXjnF
— Mel Usry (@UsryMel) March 16, 2023
Posters
Happy Earth Day! @Tech4Learning @ColesRoadrunner @TreadwellMrs pic.twitter.com/ZQyWVnVdUl
— Mrs. Martin (@ITCColes) April 23, 2021
Ways to care for the planet
Thinking of ways to take care of planet Earth using Wixie and https://t.co/xkDP0vHGTz @HumbleISD_TE @HumbleISD_DDI #TEinspires pic.twitter.com/aNauMw7oAN
— Laura Frey (@MrsLFrey) April 22, 2021
Ways to Help
We drew ways that we could save the Earth using Wixie with @HeathcoteTech #heathcotepride pic.twitter.com/SscmEGSLU2
— Mrs. Kazanecki (@Mrs_Kazanecki) March 7, 2019
Earth's Spheres
Students @SunsetAACPS created presentations on Wixie to explain how the spheres of the Earth interact with one another! @aacpsoit thank you for teaching us how to integrate technology into our classrooms! The students love it & so do we!!! pic.twitter.com/d5p4da0qZq
— Charity Crawford (@MsCLCrawford) February 27, 2019
