Think Earth Kindergarten Unit
Jay's Tree focuses on conserving trees and other resources. Students learn that trees provide us with many benefits and learn the importance of using only the paper, water, and electricity that they need.
In the Kindergarten unit, students are introduced to:
- what the natural environment is
- how we use trees from the natural environment
- why we shouldn’t waste paper and litter the environment
- what we can do to conserve paper and keep the environment clean.
How to Teach Think Earth
Download all the materials onto your computer OR use them directly from the website.
The Teacher’s Guide contains links to all the materials, so if using the Guide online, you can access the materials directly as you are teaching.
The Posters and Practice Exercises can be used in any of the following ways:
- Project pages directly from a computer with a projector or smartboard.
- Print pages and display them with a document camera.
- Load pages onto students’ tablets or computers.
- Print and distribute pages to students.
The Videos and Songs can be used in any of the following ways:
- Stream from this page to project video and play audio.
- Download the files and play from your computer.
- Load the files onto students’ tablets or computers, or provide links for streaming.
Think Earth Kindergarten Unit Materials
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PDFs
- Kindergarten Teacher's Guide
- The Environment Color Poster
- The Environment Black and White Poster
- Practice Exercise 1
- Practice Exercise 2
- Family Activity Sheet
- Hanging Badge
- Jay's Tree Story Cards
- The Treehouse Party Story Cards
- Think Earth Poster
Videos
- Think Earth Narrated
- Think Earth Narrated (CC)
- Think Earth Unnarrated
- Story: Jay's Tree
- Story: Jay's Tree (Closed Captions)
- Story: The Treehouse Party
- Story: The Treehouse Party (CC)
Songs
- Think Earth Vocal
- Think Earth Instrumental
Curriculum Resources
- Standards Correlations
- Summary of Unit Objectives
- Literature Recommendations
Download All Unit Materials
- Hi-res (zip, ~150mb)
- Low-res (zip, ~80mb)
- Think Earth Videos (zip, ~103mb)