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=Hello St. Peter's 3rd Grade!!!! =  Happy Earth Day! Earth Day will be celebrated this Wednesday April 21, 2010 all across America.

In honor of Earth Day this year, you and your classmates are going to write an article trying to convince people why Earth Day is important and also to convince them to plant more trees, conserve energy and water, and to recycle. Directions: Use the links below to gather your information about the following topics. recycle, conservation, and planting trees. You are to look for 3 benefits for our world/environment for each of the topics.

Let's get our thinking caps on and pretend we are busy newspaper reporters trying to gather all of the facts in order to write an interesting news article for the Earth Day issue of the school newspaper.

Recycle: Find the definition of recycling

Find 3 benefits of Recyling

[|Recycle]

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__ Conservation

Find the definition of conservation [|Kids Dictionary]

Find 3 benefits of conservation [|Benefits of Conservation]__

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Planting trees

Find 3 benefits [|Planting Trees]