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This lesson plan aims to teach students in grades K-5 about protecting the environment. Students will learn about how human activities cause pollution and impact the environment. They will participate in a simulation where they represent different groups in an ecosystem and see how pollution affects plants, animals, and the food chain. Afterwards, students will discuss ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste. In groups, they will create informative posters about pollution and conservation that they will display around the school. The teacher will evaluate students based on their participation, engagement, and the quality of their posters.

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Protecting Our Planet: Lesson Plan Sections

This lesson plan aims to teach students in grades K-5 about protecting the environment. Students will learn about how human activities cause pollution and impact the environment. They will participate in a simulation where they represent different groups in an ecosystem and see how pollution affects plants, animals, and the food chain. Afterwards, students will discuss ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste. In groups, they will create informative posters about pollution and conservation that they will display around the school. The teacher will evaluate students based on their participation, engagement, and the quality of their posters.

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Protecting Our Planet

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Grade(s): K-5
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Duration: 1-2 class periods

Lesson Plan Sections

Objectives
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Materials
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Procedures
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Evaluation
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Vocabulary
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Academic Standards
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Credit

Objectives
Students will

Describe the environmental impact of humans.

Understand that pollution is harmful to all living things.

Give examples of ways we can reduce, reuse, and recycle waste.

Materials

Protecting Our Planet video and VCR, or DVD and DVD player

2 cups dry spiral pasta dyed with red food coloring

Poster board, 1 sheet per student group

Pencils, erasers, and rulers

Crayons or markers

Computer with Internet access (optional)

Procedures
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Discuss the environmental impact of pollution and other ways humans negatively impact the
environment. What is pollution? What human activities create pollution? A good way to introduce this
topic is to watch portions of Protecting Our Planet.
After watchingProtecting Our Planet , ask students to describe times they, or others, littered
or created pollution in some way. How do litter and pollution affect plants and animals? Talk about
problems that may occur when garbage is not disposed of properly.
Tell students that they are going to participate in a pollution activity. Take students outside or
clear a large space in the classroom and have students stand in a large circle. Divide the circle in half
with masking tape, a jump rope, or by some other means. Next, create five groups of students:
Group One, humans; Group Two, plants; Group Three, fish, Group Four, plant-eating animals; Group
Five, fish-eating animals.
Give Group One handfuls of the pasta and tell them to scatter it in both halves of the circle.
Tell students that this pasta represents exhaust, garbage, oil, pesticides, and other pollutants from
human activities. Have Group One rejoin the circle and then ask Group Two to enter the circle, pick
up pieces of pasta and then stand where they found the pasta. Tell the class that members of Group
Two are plants that have been impacted by the pollution in their environment. Show the class that
one side of the circle represents water while the other side of the circle represents land. Both land
and water plants are affected by human pollution.
Next, ask Groups Three and Four to enter the circle, Group Three on the water side and
Group Four on the land side. Instruct these groups to "eat" a plant by linking arms with a "plant" on
their side of the circle. Tell students that fish and plant-eating land animals are affected by pollution in
many ways, including when they eat plants grown in polluted regions.
Finally, have Group Five step into the circle and "eat" a fish or "plant-eating animal" by linking
arms with either a "fish" or a "plant-eating" animal. Tell students to look around the circle. Who
created the pollution? What happened after the land and water became polluted? Which group looks
like it wasn't affected by the pollution? Is that really true?
Have members of Group One step back into the circle and "eat" a plant, a fish, a plant-eating
animal, or a fish-eating animal by linking arms with members of these groups.
Return to the classroom and discuss what happened in the exercise. Who is affected by
pollution? Talk about what kinds of things pollute our environment, reasons why it is important to
protect our planet from pollution, and ways in which we can avoid polluting our world.
Have students sit in the groups they were in for the pollution exercise and ask them to
discuss pollution and ways we can reduce, reuse, and recycle waste. Then have each group design
a poster including ways in which we can reduce, reuse, and recycle waste. Each poster should be
creative, colorful, and present at least two facts about pollution and two ways in which we can
reduce, recycle, or reuse waste. Students may use the following Web sites to assist them in creating
their posters:
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Think Green
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http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/
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http://www.thomasrecycling.com/kids.html
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http://www.epa.gov/kids/

Display the finished posters in visible areas around the school to show other students
how we can conserve our natural resources and protect our environment.
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Evaluation
Use the following three-point rubric to evaluate students' work during this lesson.
Three points: Students were highly engaged in class and group discussions; fully
participated in the pollution activity; and designed a creative and informative
conservation poster with their group that met all of the criteria.
Two points: Students participated in class and group discussions; somewhat
participated in the pollution activity; and designed an adequate and somewhat
informative conservation poster with their group that met most of the criteria.
One point: Students participated minimally in class and group discussions; did not
participate in the pollution activity; and did not help their group design its poster or as a
group designed an incomplete and somewhat informative conservation poster that met
only one aspect of the criteria.
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Vocabulary
ecology
Definition: The study of how organisms relate to each other and their environments
Context: Ecology shows us why its important to protect the Earth from pollution.
exhaust
Definition: waste gases produced by an engine
Context: Cars, trucks, and buses make a kind of pollution called exhaust.
nature
Definition: The physical world
Context: All living things are part of nature.
pollution
Definition: Harmful or poisonous substances that dirty the air, water, or land
Context: Pollution can be dangerous to people, plants, and animals.
recycle
Definition: To use something again or to convert it to a new use
Context: One way of making less trash is to recycle what we use.

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