Scaffolding Two Objectives

Scaffolding Two Objectives

Social Studies:

One of my focuses for my unit was that even though water pollution isn’t happening here, it is still happening around the world. For my social studies aspect of my unit I chose to read a book called One Plastic Bag. This book gave my students the idea that water pollution is global and effecting people around the world. After reading this book I had my students complete activities revolving around the topic of global water pollution. I asked them to first draw their favorite body of water without pollution, then go back and add pollution to their photo, this created my students to think about how water pollution could affect them. After they complete these drawings and discuss how it made them think differently. I hen passed out photos of different regions around the world that are currently suffering from water pollution and had them reflect on these photos as well. For both of these activities they were given the opportunity to observe different drawings or photos and reflect back on the global issues that I have introduced.

Arts:

For creating useful ways to use the arts in the classroom, one of the most important things to know about water pollution is ways to prevent it. After my students participate in a beach cleanup, they will have the knowledge, that they too can help the cleanup. After this I wanted to introduce reduce, reuse, and recycle. I used the arts by having my students reuse certain materials found on the beach, or would be considered reusable to construct something new. They were able to use their imagination to create something new out of this material. This would give them a new way to experience reusing things and help them use the arts to create something new.