Free Resources & Lessons

Explore our free collaborative resources and lessons + a wide selection of pay what you can Earth Friends Lessons.

Visit our wide and growing selection of downloadable 20-30 minute lessons + activities and materials available to anyone to download.

  • All lessons are designed for children ages 3-8 and include (SEL) social emotional learning and follow (UDL) universal design learning and (DAP) developmentally appropriate practices.

  • Lessons can be taught in the classroom, at home, or any space where children are learning with adults.

  • The donation model allows Earth Friends to support you with accessible content (free) and provides an opportunity for you to support the Earth Friends organization (paying what you can when you can).

All donations support Earth Friends specifically by:

  • allowing us to create new lessons

  • providing preschool through early elementary teachers with content and environmental education for early childhood professional development trainings

  • creating materials for parents and families to learn with their young children

  • implementing our We Are Earth Friends program in schools around the country

  • We Love Bats (Lesson + Activities)

    objective: to understand the importance of bats in our ecosystem; learn about their specific and unique adaptations to survive and thrive; and explore how bats and humans have some of the same features

    by: Bat Conservation International & Earth Friends

    download

  • We Love Mangroves (Lesson + Activities)

    objective: to understand the mangrove wetland habitat in coastal ecosystems; to learn that mangroves are able to grow in tropical climate zones with high salinity; to discover what is unique to mangroves

    by: Mangrove Action Project & Earth Friends

    download

Earth Friends & WQED Pittsburgh have created the
KINDERGARTEN READINESS SPINWHEEL

Each slice of the wheel links you to a set of lessons & activities to prepare any young child for kindergarten.

This turnkey, low-cost, high-value environmental education resource is brought to you by Pittsburgh’s WQED Education & Earth Friends.

All lessons and activities can be used at home, in preschool, or in any early childhood learning environment.

Earth Friends + SubjectToClimate
lessons & activities

Earth Friends + ECCLPs
lessons & activities

  • This lesson introduces students to different forms of energy through movements, celebratory dancing, and reading.  Students will learn about how energy is used for many different things, the importance of food as energy, and different types of renewable energy. 

    Access Lesson Here