Earth Day!

Sarah Ramsey

Language Arts & Science

Objectives/Student Outcomes

• Students will recognize and identify ways to preserve Earth’s limited resources.

• Students will practice the skill of writing sentences

Rationale

• This lesson is designed to raise student’s awareness about Earth’s limited resources so that they can write effective sentences about saving the planet.

Essential Question

• What can we do to help save our planet?

Student Responses

• Pick Up Trash

• Recycle

• Do not litter

• Turning off water when you brush your teeth

Strategies

• Auditory: Hearing The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

• Visual: Seeing the illustrations in The Lorax

• Written: Writing sentences on how to be “water wise.”

• Kinesthetic: Drawing a picture on the back of the worksheet on how to be “water wise.”

Introduction

• Introducing April 22 as a special day and asking students if they know what that day is.

• Introduce The Lorax, and ask students if they can predict what will happen in the story

Body

• Read The Lorax and as students about what happened in the story and why.

• Students will complete a sentence writing worksheet on being “water wise”

• Students will draw pictures on the back of their worksheet of a way that they have decided to be “water wise.”

Closure

• Students will share the ways in which they have decided to be “water wise.”

Student Samples

Student Samples

Student Samples

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