Join the No-Plastic Challenge! & The Mess That We Made Read Aloud (Earth Day)

Two inspiring environmental read aloud books that address ocean pollution and single use plastic that will leave your students with a challenge! The Mess That We Made is written in poetry form with a lot of repetitive text.

Join The No-Plastic Challenge! A First Book of Reducing Waste by Scot Ritchie

I have included:

• YouTube and Get Epic links
• word list with activity with Roll-A-Die activity or alphabetical order
• comprehension questions in 2 formats
• challenge worksheet for your students, differentiated

The Mess That We Made by Michelle Lord

• YouTube link
• poem handout
• word list with activity with Roll-A-Die or backwards or fancy/bubble letters
• comprehension questions in 2 formats
• poster or PSA activity that includes some of the ocean pollution calls to action

Both Books

• features of a poster and PSA, with rubric and checklist (rubric could be expanded to include convincing reasons or evidence and separate well chosen or effective text from images or pictures)
• 6 or 8 frame storyboard templates with lines for PSA
• handout to write a poem or Haiku about ocean pollution or single use plastic
• website and video links about plastic pollution, ocean pollution, water bottle production, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
• acrostic template for PLASTIC
• making connections template for either book, with 2 or 3 sentence starters (I wonder why) and a picture box with label
• differentiated double journal entry for 2 or 4 ideas/my thoughts
• activity to write an announcement about the negative effects of manufacturing single use plastic water bottles
• Canadian and US spelling