Making an Environmental Impact, Day by Day

Objective

• Students will demonstrate their understanding of how individual actions can make a great impact upon the health of the environment by creating ten PowerPoint slides which persuade the viewer to adopt ten actions that will positively impact the environment.

Standard

• 3.3.4 Create products that apply to authentic, real-world contexts.

Vocabulary

• Impact• Positive impact• Negative impact• UK

Rubric4 0

The content is displayed in PowerPoint. Yes No

There are ten slides. Yes No

Each slide advocates for a desired action that would positively impact the environment.

Yes No

There is a positive consequence associated with each positive action.

Yes No

Errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar are minimized.

Yes No

The slides are emailed to the instructor. Yes No

Office 365 is used to email slides to the instructor.

Yes No

Hook

• One day you will run your own household. • You will be a consumer.• Eventually, everything you buy and use has to be

discarded. Be careful what you buy! You will throw away 100% of everything you buy!

• How will your environment look when you discard these items?

Resource: http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/

HINTS FOR SUCCESS

ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKEACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE

The good things that happen (consequences) when we take these actions.

SAMPLE SLIDES

Do not throw out glass bottles and jars. Recycle them on recycling day.

You should do this because glass can be melted down and made into new bottles and jars, over and over again! Melting and reforming bottles is cheaper than making bottles from scratch, and that keeps prices down when you buy stuff that is in bottles.

Do not throw out soda cans. Recycle them on recycling day.

Aluminum cans are washed, melted down, and re-formed into sheets of aluminum, which allows new cans to be made. This is much cheaper than digging new aluminum from the ground. Besides, who wants to dig up a forest to get aluminum?