World Environment Day 2025: Activities and Resources for Schools

What is World Environment Day?

World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5th, is a global event organized by the United Nations to raise awareness about environmental issues. It is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach, celebrated by millions of people across the world.

The theme for 2025 is #BeatPlasticPollution, focusing on driving momentum to 'refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink' plastic use. In this blog, we offer a variety of activities and resources to help schools participate and educate students on how to #BeatPlasticPollution.

Purple Mash activities for World Environment Day

Rubbish and Recycling

Start the learning in your classroom by reading What a Waste: The Problem with Rubbish with your students. The quiz would also be a great whole-class activity to work though. Then, children could create a Recycling Poster to put up around the school. Older children might want to take part in a Recycling Debate, while younger students could explore the recycling activities in Simple City.

Books for World Environment Day on Serial Mash

If you've got Serial Mash as part of your Purple Mash subscription, then you'll have access to some great books which are perfect for World Environment Day:

If you'd like to give Serial Mash a try, you can get a free trial here.

Refill to Stop Landfill - NEW refillable glue sticks!

Make a positive environmental impact in your classroom this World Environment Day with new Purple Mash refillable glue sticks! We've teamed up with U-fill, creators of the world's only refillable glue stick system: instead of throwing out empty glue sticks, you can simply refill them with U-fill canisters - again and again.

They're also purple! They've been designed especially for young learners, allowing them to clearly see where they've applied the glue. It dries clear, but the visibility during use makes it easier, neater, and more fun to get creative.

Share your work with us

Whatever you are doing to celebrate World Environment Day, we would love to see and share your work. Tweet us @2SimpleSoftware or @PurpleMash, or go to 2SimpleUK on Facebook.

Useful links

World Environment Day

Earth School from TEDEd: watch and collate video-based lessons, create your own lesson and learn through interactive experiences.