World Environment Day: Activity Worksheet 2 is a versatile and engaging resource designed to help students reflect on the purpose and message of World Environment Day through a series of creative and literacy-based tasks. This worksheet promotes environmental awareness while supporting vocabulary development, critical thinking and expressive writing.

Students will complete four activities: unscrambling key environment-themed words, writing an acrostic poem using the word “recycle,” sorting true and false statements about the environment, and drawing a picture to represent what the World Environment Day theme means. These tasks are perfect for encouraging meaningful classroom discussions and helping students make personal connections to environmental topics.

This resource can be used as a whole-class activity, as part of literacy rotations or during your World Environment Day celebrations. The completed worksheets also make for a visually powerful display, showcasing students’ understanding and creativity.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Strengthen environmental vocabulary through word-building and writing tasks
• ✅ Develop comprehension and reasoning by identifying environmental facts and misconceptions
• ✅ Promote creativity and personal expression through drawing and poetry
• ✅ Reflect on the meaning of World Environment Day and how it relates to students’ lives

What’s Included:

• Single-page worksheet with four environment-themed tasks:
• Unscramble environment-related vocabulary
• Write an acrostic poem using the word “recycle”
• Sort true and false statements about the environment
• Draw a picture that represents the meaning of World Environment Day

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheet
• Pencils, erasers and coloured pencils or markers

How to Use:

• Start with a class discussion about World Environment Day and its importance
• Guide students through the vocabulary and acrostic sections, offering examples as needed
• Use the true/false task to encourage group debate and critical thinking about environmental issues
• Invite students to share and explain their drawings to reinforce understanding of the theme

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use as a stand-alone literacy task or during a themed World Environment Day lesson
• 💡 Display finished worksheets as part of an environmental awareness bulletin board
• 💡 Use in conjunction with the other resources in our World Environment Day collection

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Pre-teach or review environmental vocabulary before students begin
• 💛 Offer sentence starters for students needing support with their acrostic poems
• 💛 Allow peer collaboration on the true/false section to encourage discussion and engagement

World Environment Day: Activity Worksheet 2 provides an engaging and flexible way to celebrate the environment while helping students develop key literacy skills and deepen their understanding of sustainability.