Explore environmental themes with The Lorax activities. Strengthen students’ English Language Arts skills around Earth Day. They’ll create Truffula Tree pencil toppers, design advocacy signs, and invent tools to clean the town—blending artistic creativity with ecological awareness. Through character analysis, story sequencing, and vocabulary exercises, learners deepen their understanding of the story’s message on conservation. Inspire readers to build literacy skills, critical thinking, debate skills, and engage in sustainable practices to care for our planet.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Design Truffula Tree pencil toppers.
• Practice cutting skills.
• Draw the setting.
• Design signs to support Lorax.
• Sequence the story.
• Determine causes and effects.
• Alphabetize words from the story.
• Match rhyming words.
• Write character traits that describe Once-ler and Lorax.
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Define story vocabulary.
• Sequence the story.
• Design a tool to clean the town.
• Analyze a story quote.
• Complete a crossword puzzle.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Participate in a debate.
• Use technology tools to recycle.

These activities are adaptable for whole-group engagement, eco-stations, or individual choices, making them ideal for nurturing diverse environmental learning goals and skills.

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About the Book and Soundscape

A mustachioed hero attempts to prevent a wasteful invention, but his efforts can’t keep the factory from thriving at the environment’s expense. Grumbling machines and axes smacking soon drown out the songs of sweet violins and Swamee-Swans. Heed the Once-ler’s cautionary tale and help it end on a happier note.

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