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Topic: Community and Environmental Health

Grade Level: Second Grade 

District Health Standard: Identify ways communities affect the environment.

Lesson Summary: These lessons help second grade students identify three areas of pollution: air, land and water, how this pollution affects their community, and what they may do to reduce, recycle, and reuse waste. 

Textbook Connections:  
Community and Environmental Health Chapter 10
Lesson 35 Pollution's Effect on Health; pgs. 92-93
Lesson 36 Keeping the Environment Clean; pgs. 94-95
McGraw-Hill Web-Linked Activities

Materials:
2 large bags of safe garbage, fabric scraps, construction paper, ribbon, glue, and one empty soup can for each student; poster or worksheet of haiku structure.

Technology:  
Internet connection
Kidspiration software  

Instructional Input: 

Objectives:  
*Students will identify sources of air, water and land pollution.
*Students will describe effects of pollution in community
*Students will identify ways that people can keep the environment clean. 

1. Brainstorm with students about what they know about air, water, and land pollution and ways to clean their environment

2. If possible, take a walk in community to identify areas of pollution.

3. Use enclosed cause/effect graphic organizer for students to evaluate the effects of pollution on the environment and health.

4. Web Quest and centers

Homework:

* Students interview family concerning how they dispose of  and recycle waste at their home and where they take the recyclable items and what and how they reuse.

5. Assessment: 
 Students create a poster promoting a "pollution solution" for air, land or water.

Learning Centers:

1.  WebQuest: Make Earth Day Every Day 

2.  Sort/graph one bag of garbage (metal, paper, plastic glass, other).
3. Choose a piece of garbage and write a haiku or descriptive poem about their item.
4. Students cover a can with fabric, paper &/or ribbons to make a pencil holder.

Web Quest:   Make Earth Day Every Day

Cause and Effect Organizer

Websites:

Earth Day clip art (click on title of graphic to view)
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/earthday/clip  

Kids Domain Games
http://kidsdomain.funschool.com/current/games

Connected Stories or Books:
Mailbox; Earth Day, April/May: pg. 4-9

Authors: S. Haught,  N. Sedorcek, Jerri Drinnen, S. Henderson