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Topic:
Community
and Environmental Health
Grade
Level: 1st
District
Health Standard: Describe the
effects individuals have on the environment.
Lesson
Summary: Students will be able to identify ways to prevent
pollution. Students
will be able to recognize and understand the terms recycle, reduce, and
reuse.
Textbook
Connections:
McGraw Hill
Health, Chapter
10
McGraw-Hill
Web-Linked Activities
Materials:
McGraw
Hill Health book, class trash, rubber gloves, Master 36, large butcher
paper graph, 1" grid graph paper for students.
Technology:
Access to the
Internet; Kidspiration; Inspiration
Instructional
Input:
- Do a KWL (What I KNOW, What I WANT to know,
and What I have LEARNED) about pollution.
(See http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr2kwl.htm
for information about KWL).
- Read stories and factual information about
pollution, reducing, recycling, and reusing.
- Introduce vocabulary words: environment,
pollution, reduce, recycle, and reuse. Post with definitions in the
room.
- List and discuss the various types of
pollution (land, air) and causes.
- What can we do to clean up our environment?
Recycle, reduce, reuse.
- Using rubber gloves, dump out trash and
group the items according to what can be recycled and what could
not.
- Make a large graph on butcher paper with at
least 5 columns. Label the first Reduce, the second Reuse.
Glue the reduce and reuse items to a graph and label each item.
- Draw student’s attention to the different
types of products that are left, the recyclable items. Using these
items, sort them into three categories (paper, plastic, aluminum).
Label the last three columns of the large graph (Recycle Paper, Recycle
Plastic, Recycle Aluminum). Glue these items onto the
graph.
- Set up learning centers in the
classroom
- Graphing: Make a graph that matches the class graph.
- Use Lesson Master 36 (McGraw Hill 1st
Grade Health Series)
- Dictionary Entries Have students
write, illustrate, and define the "Environment" words they know.
(trash, recycle, reuse, reduce, environment, clean up, etc.)
- Computer Station - Inspiration Interactive
Worksheet--"Recycle, Reduce, and Reuse." Have students complete the activity at the computer and
then repeat it on the worksheet provided below.
- Second Computer Station or Home
Activity -
Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
WebQuest.
Recycle, Reduce, and Reuse
Inspiration
Interactive Worksheet
Printable
Worksheet
Original
Word file
Recycle Assessment
Inspiration
Interactive Assessment
Printable
Assessment
Original
Word File
WebQuest:
Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
Websites:
Earth Day for Kids
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/earthday/earthday.htm
Eddy the Eco-Dog
http://www.eddytheeco-dog.com/
E-Patrol: Energy Savers
http://www.sprint.com/epatrol/ep-energy.html
Planet
Ark-How to Recycle Cartons
http://www.planetark.org/cartons/cartrcyc.html
Planetpals Earthzone
http://www.planetpals.com/planetpals.html
Planetpals Educational Fun for
Everyone
http://www.planetpals.com/
McGraw-Hill
Web-Linked Activities
http://www.mhschool.com/teach/health/mhhealth/teachres/weblesson.html
Math Text Connections:
Measurement
- weighing your trash, graph how much trash your class produces
Connected Stories or
Books:
Clifford's Spring Clean-Up, Norman
Bridwell
Day and Night, Maria
Gordon
Dinosaurs to the Rescue!, Laurie Krasny Brown and
Marc Brown
Earth Day, Linda Lowery
Earth Day : Let's Meet
the Earth Kids, Barbara Derubertis
Every Day Is Earth Day : A
Craft Book, Kathy Ross
50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the
Earth, The EarthWorks Group
The Great Trash Bash, Loreen
Leedy
Long Live Earth, Meighan Morrison
The Lorax, Dr.
Seuss
Over There Was a Tree, Natalia
Romanova
Recycle!, Gail Gibbons
Tanya's Big Green
Dream, Linda Glaser
Where Once There Was a Wood, Denise
Fleming
Why Do We Have? Day and Night, Claire
Llewellyn
Authors: Michelle Foster, Donna Feeler, & Cristina
Norton
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