Earth Day | Earth Day Lesson | Earth Day Activities | Human Impact |
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Description
This is a no-prep digital lesson that teaches students about Earth Day. This lesson is an opportunity to advance students understanding of human impact, the environment, and important scientific terms aligned with standards. Students will engage in a vocabulary-rich lesson about the harmful impacts humans have on earth. They will also learn, discuss, and describe how to more efficiently protect our planet.
More about this Product:
- 40 slides and 1 lesson plan
- To increase student understanding of human impact, I have included multiple opportunities for students to have rich discussions about the topic.
- Students will have opportunities to practice concepts through activities.
- Integrates Earth Science, informational text, vocabulary and writing.
- Teaches students new facts and information about Earth Day.
- Activates on prior knowledge.
What is Included:
- Lesson Plan
- Cover Page - Real-Life Images
-2 options
- Objectives
-3 total objectives aligned with ELA and Science
- KWL Chart
-Build on prior knowledge
- 3 Questions You Have
- Defining what Earth Day is
-Informational Text
- Vocabulary Words to know
-litter, reduce, reuse, recycle, deforestation, environment, resources, awareness, pollution
- Open-Ending Discussion Questions
-Activates prior knowledge and deepens understandings of new concepts.
-What do you notice? Analyzing a pollution image.
- Protecting our Planet
-Informational Text
-Write about it - responding to a prompt.
- How do people harm the earth?
-Informational Text
-Deforestation, littering, not reusing materials, pollution (various types)
- The 3 E's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
-Summary
- Helpful vs. Harmful Sort
-Drag and Drop
- Research Harmful Human Impact to Earth
-Use a graphic organizer for ideas
-Respond to Prompt
- Vocabulary Review
- Vocabulary Quiz
-Drag and Drop activity
- New Facts Prompt
How to Use this Product
- This product can be posted on your google classroom or emailed to your students.
- They can download their own copy to complete as an assignment or to have their own copy while you are teaching the lesson.
- You can also display it on your desktop when teaching on google classroom or google meets.
- If you want to send individual copies to each student on google classroom, you upload it as an assignment, select the bubble that says send a copy to each student, and you will be able to see that they have completed the slides.
- When purchasing, you will receive a google slides version. The product has editable text boxes for you or your students to write into.
- It can also be downloaded as a Powerpoint version if desired. If you would like to download as a PDF version, click file in the top right corner, and scroll down to download then select PDF version.
Comment from Farmhouse Teacher Creatives:
I hope you and your students enjoy this Earth Day lesson!
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