Format
1. Earth Day discussion--why do we have it? and what are some ways we can make a change?
2. What ways are we harming the environment?
3. How do trees and plants help us?
4. Are you "seed smart"?
5. The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
6. Story Discussion and Review
7. Wrap Up...Collaborative Game
Objectives
1. Students will discuss how their decisions and choices affect others
2. Students will verbally express thoughts to other sites connecting and defend the choices they made.
3. Students will identify environmental problems with literature.
4. Students will investigate ways in which humans use natural resources to meet their needs, and the ways the Earth is changed in the process.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
NS.K-4.3 LIFE SCIENCE
As a result of activities in grades K-4, all students should develop understanding of
. The characteristics of organisms
. Life cycles of organisms
. Organisms and environments
NL-ENG.K-12.3
Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).
NL-ENG.K-12.4
Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
NL-ENG.K-12.12
Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).
State Standards
Ohio Standards:
Life Sciences Standard
3. Explain why organisms can survive only in environments that meet their needs (e.g., organisms that once lived on Earth have disappeared for different reasons such as natural forces or human-caused effects).