Thursday, November 15 , 2007 ~ 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM ~ Register here.
Today's students live in a world where environmental issues such as global warming, organic farming, and recycling and many other environmental issues exist all around us. Teaching students how to help clean up the planet and live responsibly is not just an opportunity, but a necessity.
Living GREEN is a lifestyle and a choice to find and promote the best alternatives that support healthier home, school, business, and community environments.
OBJECTIVES:
Students will:
- Think of lifestyle changes that would produce less waste.
- Understand the elements that make up an ecosystem.
- Describe ways in which humans impact the environment.
- Understand that pollution is harmful to all living things.
- Give examples of ways we can reduce, reuse, and recycle waste.
NATIONAL STANDARDS
National Academy of Sciences
The National Science Education Standards provide guidelines for teaching science as well as a coherent vision of what it means to be scientifically literate for students in grades K-12. To view the standards, visit this Web site: http://books.nap.edu/html/nses/html/overview.html#content.
This lesson plan addresses the following national standards:
- Science as Inquiry: Understanding about scientific inquiry
- Life Science: organisms and environments
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Changes in environments
- Science: Life Sciences – Understands relationships among organisms and their physical environment
- Nature of Science – Understands the nature of scientific inquiry
- Life Science: Interdependence of organisms; Behavior of organisms
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
McREL's Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K–12 Education addresses 14 content areas. To view the standards and benchmarks, visit http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/browse.asp.
This lesson plan addresses the following national standards:
- Language Arts: Viewing – Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media
- Science: Life Science — Understands relationships among organisms and their physical environment
- Health: Knows environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health