Understanding by Design
|Lesson Title: Sustainability – recycling, and the specific effects of water bottles on the environment and self. |
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|Subject: Grade Level: K-2 |
|Time required: Week – varies on amount of recycling time teacher wants to give |
|Topic: Water bottles |
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|Essential Question: |
|How can our classroom drink water in a sustainable healthy way? |
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|Prerequisites (Prior knowledge) |
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|Stage 1 – Desired Results |
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|Content Area Standard(s) (include complete standard, not just standard #) |
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|Standard 2: A Safe and Healthy Environment |
|Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment. |
|Standard 3: Resource Management |
|Students will understand and be able to manage their personal and community resources. |
|Objectives (Should define what students will know and be able to do.) - Students will understand the harmful effects water bottles can have on |
|themselves and their environment, and how to prevent this. |
|Students will know… |Student will be able to… |
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|Facts about waste in the USA |Use their knowledge of water bottles to create a healthy body and |
|What recycling does |environment |
|How to recycle |Recycle |
|What harmful effects water bottles have on their bodies |Convey the sustainable methods they learned into practice |
|What harmful effects water bottles have on the environment | |
|How to prevent this | |
|Other sustainable activities | |
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Riley Schwartzott – Early Education Lesson Plan
|Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence |
|Students will demonstrate their learning/understanding in the following way(s): |
|Teacher-Created Assessments |
|Pre-test: K-W-L – what students know, what students want to know |
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|Post-test: What students learned |
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|(Performance Assessments: ) |
|Create your own water bottle activity - see if they understand the concept |
|(Other Assessments: Peer, Self) |
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|Stage 3 – Learning Plan |
|Learning Activities |
|Instructional Strategies/Learning Activities: e.g., demonstration, discussion, small groups, role play, etc. |
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|KWL |
|Power point presentation |
|Water bottle activity |
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|Introducing the lesson: (capturing students’ attention, accessing students’ prior knowledge). |
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|Interesting facts about water bottles |
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|Instructional Sequence: (representing the content: teaching/learning activities, connecting to students’ prior knowledge, etc.) |
|Teacher activity Student activity |
|Ask children what they know about Answer/ depending on age write on the overhead projector, |
|Sustainability, recycling & chalk board, or white board |
|water bottles |
|Ask children what they would like Answer/ depending on age write on the overhead |
|to know about sustainability, projector, chalkboard, or white board |
|recycling, & water bottles |
|Present power point presentation Watch, ask questions, discuss |
|Introduce the need to recycle Starting on Monday of that week recycle their cans/bottles |
|To raise money to buy the and bring in their change in order to purchase materials |
|Lesson materials |
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|Purchase glass or sports water bottle Paint and decorate their individual water bottles to use |
|Water bottles based on the revenue in the classroom |
|Brought in, and the age of students |
|(younger = Sports bottle) |
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|If extra money: purchase a filter when complete wash water bottles daily in the classroom |
|For water to promote even more and fill with filtered tap water from the classroom |
|Sustainable living |
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|Discussion and Assessment of Learning: |
|(Pointing out to students how what they are learning is related to the driving question; assessing students’ learning as a result of the lesson)|
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|During the process of making their own water bottles encourage discussion about how creating this helps them, and the environment. |
|Closure: |
|Extensions for early finishers: |
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|Help other students, clean up area, color a picture of a recycling symbol |
|Assistance for struggling students: |
|Extra help decorating their water bottles, more time |
|Procedures: (already established procedures to be used and procedures to be taught for this lesson) |
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|Lesson Development Resources |
|Technology Tools and Materials: (classroom set-up, preparations, resources, etc.) |
|Computer – create power point |
|Sharpies to decorate their water bottles |
|Water bottles |
|Sports water bottles (younger grades) - |
|Glass water bottles - |
|Option: Water filter for classroom |
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|(Parent/Community Resources) |
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|Give a list of recycling areas to parents to help the cause |
|Know what is recyclable and provide a list to parents so they can raise money with the proper recyclable material |
|(Contact Information) |
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