UNIT TOPIC: Water Pollution
LESSON TOPIC: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
AGE/GRADE: 3rd Grade
LESSON ESSENTIAL QUESTION: In what ways can you reduce, reuse and recycle to reduce water pollution?
RATIONALE AND CONTEXT: This lesson is an important final lesson in this unit because it helps show my students ways they can help prevent water pollution. I want to provide examples for reducing their trash and ecological footprint, ways to reuse different materials for different uses, and to show the importance of recycling. My hopes for this lesson is that my students will use all their previous knowledge on water pollution, to feel motivated to help be part of a movement to stop water pollution, inside and outside of their community.
TEACHER CONTENT KNOWLEDGE: To teach this lesson I first had to help my students find different ways that they can help prevent water pollution. I provided them with an activity in which they will use ideas that I have provided for them, to reuse materials. They will transform many different items for new uses, and use this as a way to prevent water pollution. I also created an active and artistic way for my students to show their understanding of the lesson and also the unit topic; I thought this way a great way for my students to express themselves and what they have learned.
DESIRED RESULTS:
Common Core/Vermont Standard GE(s)/National Arts Standards:
National Core Arts Standards/Artistic Processes and Anchor Standards: Connecting- Students will: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
H&SS3-4:2 Students develop a hypothesis, thesis, or research by… Using prior knowledge to predict results or proposing a choice about a possible action (e.g., using experience from a field trip to the nature center, propose a way to preserve Vermont’s natural habitats).
Learning Objective(s): My learning objectives for my students are that they can use art to connect their learning to the unit topic of water pollution, that they can use art as a way to deepen their knowledge of the topic. I want my students to be able to understand ways that they can help prevent water pollution.
Focusing Question(s): In what ways can you reduce, reuse and recycle to help reduce water pollution? What motivates you to stop water pollution?
Language Objectives: They will be learning a variety of ways to prevent water pollution, such as reduce, reuse and recycle. They will learn about each of these terms and their importance.
ASSESSMENT:
Strategies: During this lesson, first we will be creating a list of ways different items could be reused. Then my students will be asked to first transform items for different uses, to reuse them. They will also be asked to create a collage that demonstrates their learning and understanding of this unit topic, this will wrap up the unit.
Process: I will evaluate my students learning and understanding of this lesson by how well they create a collage that shows what’s most important to them. I want my students to think deeply about ways they can prevent water pollution and show this in class by communicating with others ideas that they might have.
Criteria: I will be asking of my students to use the activities I have provided to them as a resource to further their knowledge of water pollution and ways they can prevent It. They will be asked to make sure that they understand that they can help by sing previous knowledge from past lesson, to expand their knowledge now.
Reflection to Students: I will provide feedback to my students by seeing how well they understand the message of this lesson and the activities I have assigned. They are expected to participate and be an active member of the classroom, with coming up with ideas to prevent water pollution and also ways to reduce, reuse and recycle. I will help them find different ways to reuse materials in hope that it will motivate them.
LEARNING PLAN:
Hook: The end of this unit will help my students find ways that they can help the planet by stopping water pollution. I want them to be interested in finding new ways to help and be engaged in several activities that will make them feel like they are making a difference.
Instruction:
1. We will start class with reviewing our list of ways to reuse different items, from the last lesson. This will refresh our memory on the topic and why it’s important.
2. Next I will give each student different forms of water pollution, such as plastic water bottles, and other materials that could be reused. I will ask my students to come up with a different use for this item and create something new out of it.
3. After about 30 minutes working on their material, I will ask them to each share their new idea with the class, this will provide my students with different ideas for the future.
4. Next, as a class we will come up with a new way for our class to work, including one of the ideas of reduce, reuse and recycle. (Reuse activity each week to transform items for different uses, or recycling better.)
5. As a closing activity for this unit I will have my students reflect back on their drawings of their favorite body of water, and reuse it to make a bigger collage to represent what they found most important from this lesson.
6. We will share these projects as the last part of this unit.
Closure and Connections: Throughout this unit, I wanted my students to gain more knowledge about water pollution and the affect it might have on our lives, I found this to be important because water is an essential need for our lives. With closing this lesson, I wanted to show my students that not only is water pollution bad, but that there are ways we can prevent it and stop it from happening. I want my students to use this knowledge they now have to motivate them to help fight water pollution.
ACCOMMODATIONS: For my ELL students in the classroom, I will provide them with a helpful list that the class will create at the beginning, throughout the lesson they may refer to this list as a learning material to better help their understanding. When I ask my students to create a collage using their drawings from a past lesson, this will give them a chance to refresh their memory of that lesson and use that previous knowledge to guide them through this activity. They will be able to show their knowledge in a creative and artistic way that might be a very helpful way for them to express themselves.
RESOURCES/MATERIALS: Different materials for collage making, like paper, scissors, magazines, their drawings from previous lesson, different items that can be reused (water bottles, milk jugs, cereal boxes, glass jars, tissue box, wires, etc.)
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