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Earth Day will be celebrated on April 22 this year. Here are some resources you can use in your language classes:

The official Earth Day webpage is available at https://www.earthday.org/. Explore different issues at https://www.earthday.org/campaigns/

Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers reviews three resources: Google's Explore Climate Change tours, a game called My Garbology about sorting garbage, and an Earth Day activities page from Storyboard That: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/04/three-earth-day-resources.html#.WsKsa5PwZPU

Here are some resources curated a few years ago by SANS: https://www.sansinc.com/earth-day-turns-46-global-part-world-language-classes/

Edutopia also has a recently-updated curated collection of online resources at https://www.edutopia.org/blog/earth-day-lesson-plans-matt-davis

For English learners, here are some helpful words and activities from Study.com: https://study.com/academy/lesson/earth-day-vocabulary-activities-for-esl-students.html, and here are some ideas from the New York Times' Learning Network: https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/ideas-for-english-language-learners-earth-day-and-the-environment/

Here are two collections of English and Spanish resources on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mommymaestra/bilingual-earth-day/ and https://www.pinterest.com/spanglishbaby/dia-de-la-tierra-earth-day-activities-for-bilingua/

Here are some songs, games, and tech resources from the Fun for Spanish Teachers site: http://www.funforspanishteachers.com/2018/04/earth-day-resources-for-elementary.html