Earth Day is April 20, and we’re celebrating all month long with engaging activities — like our Earth Day video response worksheet! Start by choosing one of the incredible BBC videos from our Earth Day Collection, featuring topics like protecting our planet, innovative ideas for a better future, and inspiring conservation stories.
After watching, have your Grade 3–8 students complete the worksheet questions. You can also give students the option to choose their own video — either from the collection or another relevant clip in our extensive library — since the worksheet is designed to work with any selection.
It’s a simple, meaningful way to spark curiosity and help students connect with real-world environmental issues.
Help Doctor Bluey through the maze to her patient, collecting her doctor thingymajigs along the way!
Top Tip: Recycle some old boxes and decorate them to make a doctor surgery for your teddies. Use the bits and bobs from your doctor set too!
Inspired by Season 1 Episode 18 "The Doctor": Honey is stuck in the waiting room with receptionist Bluey as Dr. Bingo prioritises patients with more exciting injuries, until Honey demonstrates how her tail can wag her body.
In Turning Plastic Waste Into Diesel Fuel, dive into the world of crude oil and how it's used to make plastic through a process that creates long chains called polymers. Jem tries to turn waste plastic back into something useful: diesel fuel! Using a hot, oxygen-free oven, he cooks the plastic to turn it into liquid fuel, and with help from chemists, he successfully gets a car to run on the diesel made from waste plastic. It’s a cool experiment showing how we can recycle plastic into something powerful! This video is excerpted from BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory, a series that delves into the ways science impacts our lives and shapes the world we experience every day.
In Inside a Super Recycling Plant, plastic is everywhere, and while it’s bad for wildlife, many people wonder — how bad is it for us? Every year, millions of tons of plastic end up in landfills, but new technology is making recycling more effective. At a cutting-edge plant, 5 million plastic bottles are cleaned, chopped up, and turned into brand-new, food-safe bottles every day — without any waste! This process gives old plastic a fresh start and shows progress in tackling the massive plastic problem. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory, a series that delves into the ways science impacts our lives and shapes the world we experience every day.
In this lesson, students will collaborate to understand how marine life is affected by human actions. The Dive into this engaging lesson where your students will uncover how human actions affect marine life. Kick things off with a fun game of Three Truths and a Lie about the ocean to spark curiosity and get everyone talking. Then, break into small groups and tackle a jigsaw activity as students watch short, thought-provoking videos about ocean animals and human impact. Together, they’ll share insights, tackle discussion questions, and use their newfound knowledge to create eye-catching infographics. These creations will inspire others to take action and protect our incredible oceans!
In The Heart and Lungs of the World, host Radzi Chinyanganya explains how the Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in regulating the Earth's climate by recycling water from the trees into the atmosphere. The Amazon takes in and pumps out water, which creates moisture that forms clouds and produces rain. With 400 billion trees cycling water, this process significantly influences global weather patterns, including rainfall in regions far from the rainforest itself, such as the United States’ Midwest. This video is excerpted from BBC’s My World, a program created for teenagers eager to learn more about the important stories shaping our world.
Think a kid can’t save the world? Think again! “Sweet Tub Teddy” is a young man who made quite the impression when he saved over 2,000 plastic tubs from going to a landfill. When Teddy heard that these tubs weren’t recyclable in the traditional sense, he sprang into action, keeping stacks and stacks of plastic from being dumped into a landfill.
As a reward, Teddy got to visit a factory that turns plastic tubs like these into outdoor furniture and dog show equipment, where he got to see what a difference he made. In fact, he collected 75 kilograms — enough to make a sturdy, full-sized bench. The factory even gifted him one of his own! It now sits at his school as a reminder of Teddy’s accomplishments and inspiration for other kids to go out and make a change.
In The Go Jetters Turn Trash Into Energy , the Go Jetters learn how food waste can be recycled back into heating, cooking, and even powering vehicles. Ubercorn shares three funky facts about biogas. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Go Jetters, a series that follows the adventures of four international heroes as they travel the globe visiting landmarks and solving environmental problems with Ubercorn, a disco-dancing unicorn.
In Watch a Life Built on Decay in the Rainforests, narrator Sir David Attenborough notes that the nutrient recycling rate in rainforests happens faster than anywhere else. Learn how slime mold, fungi, and beetle larvae interact to decompose leaf litter. This video is excerpted from BBC's Planet Earth, a breathtaking documentary series that highlights the natural wonders of our planet.
Earth Day is April 20, and we’re celebrating all month long with engaging activities — like our Earth Day video response worksheet! Start by choosing one of the incredible BBC videos from our Earth Day Collection, featuring topics like protecting our planet, innovative ideas for a better future, and inspiring conservation stories.
After watching, have your Grade 3–8 students complete the worksheet questions. You can also give students the option to choose their own video — either from the collection or another relevant clip in our extensive library — since the worksheet is designed to work with any selection.
It’s a simple, meaningful way to spark curiosity and help students connect with real-world environmental issues.
Help Doctor Bluey through the maze to her patient, collecting her doctor thingymajigs along the way!
Top Tip: Recycle some old boxes and decorate them to make a doctor surgery for your teddies. Use the bits and bobs from your doctor set too!
Inspired by Season 1 Episode 18 "The Doctor": Honey is stuck in the waiting room with receptionist Bluey as Dr. Bingo prioritises patients with more exciting injuries, until Honey demonstrates how her tail can wag her body.
In Turning Plastic Waste Into Diesel Fuel, dive into the world of crude oil and how it's used to make plastic through a process that creates long chains called polymers. Jem tries to turn waste plastic back into something useful: diesel fuel! Using a hot, oxygen-free oven, he cooks the plastic to turn it into liquid fuel, and with help from chemists, he successfully gets a car to run on the diesel made from waste plastic. It’s a cool experiment showing how we can recycle plastic into something powerful! This video is excerpted from BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory, a series that delves into the ways science impacts our lives and shapes the world we experience every day.
In Inside a Super Recycling Plant, plastic is everywhere, and while it’s bad for wildlife, many people wonder — how bad is it for us? Every year, millions of tons of plastic end up in landfills, but new technology is making recycling more effective. At a cutting-edge plant, 5 million plastic bottles are cleaned, chopped up, and turned into brand-new, food-safe bottles every day — without any waste! This process gives old plastic a fresh start and shows progress in tackling the massive plastic problem. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory, a series that delves into the ways science impacts our lives and shapes the world we experience every day.
In this lesson, students will collaborate to understand how marine life is affected by human actions. The Dive into this engaging lesson where your students will uncover how human actions affect marine life. Kick things off with a fun game of Three Truths and a Lie about the ocean to spark curiosity and get everyone talking. Then, break into small groups and tackle a jigsaw activity as students watch short, thought-provoking videos about ocean animals and human impact. Together, they’ll share insights, tackle discussion questions, and use their newfound knowledge to create eye-catching infographics. These creations will inspire others to take action and protect our incredible oceans!
In The Heart and Lungs of the World, host Radzi Chinyanganya explains how the Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in regulating the Earth's climate by recycling water from the trees into the atmosphere. The Amazon takes in and pumps out water, which creates moisture that forms clouds and produces rain. With 400 billion trees cycling water, this process significantly influences global weather patterns, including rainfall in regions far from the rainforest itself, such as the United States’ Midwest. This video is excerpted from BBC’s My World, a program created for teenagers eager to learn more about the important stories shaping our world.
Think a kid can’t save the world? Think again! “Sweet Tub Teddy” is a young man who made quite the impression when he saved over 2,000 plastic tubs from going to a landfill. When Teddy heard that these tubs weren’t recyclable in the traditional sense, he sprang into action, keeping stacks and stacks of plastic from being dumped into a landfill.
As a reward, Teddy got to visit a factory that turns plastic tubs like these into outdoor furniture and dog show equipment, where he got to see what a difference he made. In fact, he collected 75 kilograms — enough to make a sturdy, full-sized bench. The factory even gifted him one of his own! It now sits at his school as a reminder of Teddy’s accomplishments and inspiration for other kids to go out and make a change.
In The Go Jetters Turn Trash Into Energy , the Go Jetters learn how food waste can be recycled back into heating, cooking, and even powering vehicles. Ubercorn shares three funky facts about biogas. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Go Jetters, a series that follows the adventures of four international heroes as they travel the globe visiting landmarks and solving environmental problems with Ubercorn, a disco-dancing unicorn.
In Watch a Life Built on Decay in the Rainforests, narrator Sir David Attenborough notes that the nutrient recycling rate in rainforests happens faster than anywhere else. Learn how slime mold, fungi, and beetle larvae interact to decompose leaf litter. This video is excerpted from BBC's Planet Earth, a breathtaking documentary series that highlights the natural wonders of our planet.