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Earth Day Science Symposium

Exploring Current Research on Some of the World's Most Endangered Species (Choose One or More from Three!)

A FREE 7-day enrichment activity for middle-school classrooms


Want to celebrate Earth Day and motivate students to higher levels of science achievement? EDSS challenges students to think critically about important environmental issues.

EDSS is an exciting classroom activity that focuses on data analysis, mapping and graphing, explanation, and oral presentation. It includes powerful assessment tools designed to measure student achievement across multiple applied math and science benchmarks. Most importantly, it is designed to inspire interest and encourage engagement by challenging students to understand and explain the status of critically endangered animals.

Requires just 2 hours of teacher prep for an exciting classroom activity!


For Sample Previews Go To Each EDSS Page.



The Earth Day Science Symposium is a three year project to improve science literacy in middle school classrooms. EDSS materials are provided free to middle-school classrooms through generous funding from the Toyota USA Foundation. By supporting the Earth Day Science Symposium, the foundation is working to foster creativity and inquiry, as well as to improve math and science education in schools across the nation.

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Three Symposiums

EDSS Elephants

EDSS Sea Turtles

EDSS Orangutans