In this unit, students will learn about plants/trees and will inquire about the ways all living things need plants. Students speak from the point of view of animal and will persuade someone not to cut down their tree.
After exploring ways that people use resources from our environment to provide for basic needs and wants, students will generate an inclusive list (using brainstorming and research) of many natural resources that people use to meet their needs and wants. Students will create a poster to illustrate their generated ideas. Then students will present their posters to the class or a small group. The teacher may also ask students to consider the use of one natural resource over another in a given situation. Students will consider the best natural resource (s) to use in various situations based on wants/needs, sturdiness, usefulness, sustainability, durability, accessibility, availability, cost, etc. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.
Students begin to identify the resources that humans need to survive and enjoy life. Humans need water, food, shelter and clothes. They also want to play and be entertained. Students will begin to investigate how the things they need and want are products that come in packaging such as paper, boxes, cans, glass, plastic; things that generate waste. This lesson was developed by Claudia Gonzalez Abi Saab as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
In this culmination lesson, students will use what they have learned and new vocabulary to "take action" and contribute to the conversation about what makes a "Zero Waste Classroom." and promote "Zero Waste School". Make recycled paper and bringing a toy made of recycled materials will give the students opportunity to experience the process of "Reduce" " Reuse" and "Recycle". This lesson was developed by Claudia Gonzalez Abi Saab as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students identify the materials of the waste to classify objects according to the ways they can be recycled or to make compost. Also the students begin to take action by being more conscientious of the waste they generate. This lesson was developed by Claudia Gonzalez Abi Saab as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will understand that the resources humans need to survive and enjoy life generate waste. Students will also understand how humans dispose waste.Examples include: using landfills, dumps, dumpsters, burning, composting and recycling. Also, students begin to understand the some types of waste such as organic, recyclable and non-recyclable. This lesson was developed by Claudia Gonzalez Abi Saab as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.
Students will listen to a reading of Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs by Judi Barrett. This book is accessible via NC Kids Digital Library. After the read aloud, students will have the opportunity to engage in The Engineering Design Process to design a prototype/model of a hat or clothing to show how people might adapt to the unusual weather conditions as depicted in the story. Students will present their design/prototypes and explain how the designs help people adapt to weather conditions, per the NC Kindergarten Social Studies Standards.
After reading books about how weather conditions cause humans to adapt (wearing different clothes, building houses differently, vacationing at different spots, maintaining a home – for example shoveling snow or patching shingles) and how weather conditions can create jobs for people, the teacher will do a sort activity with the whole group and will provide higher-level students with an additional activity regarding the effects of weather conditions. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.