Earth Month

Join Sustainable Marin Schools in celebrating Earth Month!

For Earth Month 2026, our California Climate Action Corps fellows arranged for Novato Unified School District's first interschool Earth Month competition.

Participating schools compete in four categories:

• Climate BINGO Activity Cards
• Compost and Recycling Contamination
• Walk and Roll to School
• Earth Protection Pledges 

How can I celebrate Earth Day / Month at my school?

Check out our resources and advice for making April a month of green themed activities and events!

Earth Month Books About Climate Heroes

• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (1971)
• Our House is on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet by Jeannette Winter (2019)
• The Tree Lady by Jill McElmurry and Joseph H. Hopkins (2013)
• Drawn to Change the World graphic novel collection, edited by Emma Reynolds (2023)
• The Girl who Lost a Leopard by Nizrana Farook (2023)
• Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel 
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
• Eco Warriors by Campbell Books 
• Be Plastic Clever by Amy and Ella Meek
• Climate Action by Georgina Stevens, illustrated by Katie Rewse
• We Have a Dream: Meet 30 Young Indigenous People and People of Color Protecting the Planet by Mya-Rose Craig
• One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul
• Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea by Meena Harris, illustrated by Ana Ramirez Gonzalez
• Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior written by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Bridget George
• Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts
• Amara and the Bats by Emma Reynolds
• Wangari’s Trees of Peace by Jeannette Winter
• The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish, written and illustrated by Chloe Savage (2023)
• Savi and the Memory Keeper by Bijal Vahharajani (2023)
• Finjamin and the Wild Ones: A Tale of Mystery, Wildlife, and a Pet Bunny by Linda Lacunza
• Animal Allies: 15 Amazing Women in Wildlife Research (Women of Power) by Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan

Earth Month Activity Resources

Earth Month Activity BINGO in English & Spanish

Leaf-Based Scavenger Hunt

Nature Scavenger Hunt

Activity Book from the Xerces Society

What Earth Month activities can I do...?

...with one class

• Read a book about climate heroes
• STEAM Project series for Earth Month
• Walking field trip to green spaces around the school
• Nature scavenger hunt
• Read a book about helping the Earth
• Bring in a speaker from a green job to inspire 

...with student clubs

• Leadership students - campus cleaning events
• Start a green team!
• Make posters about reusables, ways to help
• Write to your food and nutrition services to ask for a plastic free lunch
• Present ideas for sustainable policies to your school's board of trustees

...school-wide

• Earth Month Activity BINGO
• Walk & Roll to school days (w/raffle for participants)
• Bring in an expert to speak (about watersheds, pollinators, the place you live, from local tribes, etc)

...with volunteers

• Spring Clean your school garden
• Campus clean up and beautification event
• Install an outdoor library and a bench/stumps to read on
• Build a new habitat garden (and plan for irrigation). Get advice from your local nursery.

Who do I talk to...?

...at my school

• Find a teacher champion!
• Your school's garden educator
• Principal
• PTO/PTA
• Beautification group

...at the district/city

• Sustainability coordinator
• Sanitary district (often have an outreach coordinator)
• Food and Nutrition Services

...other partners

• Conservation and pollinator groups
• Gardening groups
• Waste haulers
• Other schools
• Parks and potential field trip destinations

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