Audidence: 3rd grade
MS Social Studies Framework
2. Acquire the characterisitics to be a responsible citizen in the United States.
Recognize responsibilities of the indicidual as they relate to the student's community.
Big Idea: Conserving resources.
Objective: The students will infer the feelings of nonhuman lifeforms after reading the book The Tree to determine how the environment is effected by resource extraction.
Preparation:
1.) Read The Tree by Dana Lyons to the students.
2.) Ask the students open ended questions such as:
a. If there were no trees how would our environment change?
b. Could we survive without trees?
c. How would you feel if something you treasured was taken away?
3.) Ask the students to describe the emotions of the tree in various stages of the book?
How did the author personify the tree's feeling about being cut down?
Based on the author's words describe the tree's feelings throughout the story?
4.)Introduce the idea of conserving resources.5.) Ask the students why they believe conservation is important?
What happens if we do not conserve resources?
6.) Students will personify a resource such as oil, salt, gold, or copper and describe how the land around it is affected by extracting resources.
Guidance
1. ) Teacher models her example personification.
I am flowing down the mountain tops into the deep blue ocean. On the way down, there is nothing but pollution. They fill me up with chemical waste and even worse they dump their trash on my banks. I wonder if people will ever drink me again or while more chemicals have to be dumped into me to clean me up.
2.) Teacher helps students engage in the task by asking higher order thinking questions that have no right or wrong answers. Such as, if you were a lump of coal and all the land around you was being destroyed just so people could get you how you react? Would you be selfish or concerned about the environment?
Application
1.) Students will share with the class their personification of their resource orally.
2.) Students will compose a short paragraph about how their resource can be conserved.
Assessment
1.) Use I learned statements to discuss what the students learned during the other students presentations.
Yes, I added a comment to my own posting because when I was talking with Dr. Bishop he made really good point. Since my the lesson is on resources and trees, one way to conserve trees is to reduce the amount of paper we use. (i.e. do things like use the computer to communicate instead of paper.)His comment reinforced what my lesson was all about.
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