Human Impact on the Environment -25 lessons including poetry, spelling and more!

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Caz's History and English Classroom

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1st - 12th, Homeschool, Staff

Subjects

English Language Arts, Environment, Social Studies - History

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Thematic Unit Plans, Assessment, Lesson

Standards

NGSSMS-ESS3-1

NGSS5-ESS3-1

NGSSMS-ESS3-5

NGSSHS-ESS3-1

NGSSMS-ESS3-4

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PPTX

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71 pages

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Description

This 5 week unit is designed to help teach students about the many impacts humans have had on our environment.

It incorporates:

* History -skills and knowledge

* Geography - understanding of nature and the world around us

* Science - understanding the environment and how we impact on it

* English - reading, writing, comprehension, viewing and responding

The unit of work includes a plan for 5 lessons per week, roughly 60mins per lesson. It includes activities on:

* Air pollution

* Water pollution

* Land Clearing and Deforestation

* Waste

* Specific environmental vocabulary and spelling from Grades 5-9

* Poetry - Haiku, Acrostic, Quatrains, Cinquains, and more

* Analysis of Dr Seuss' text "The Lorax"

* Analysis of the film "Wall-E"

This product includes all 71 slides with detailed lesson plans, worksheets, websites and resource links, and much more.

**PLEASE NOTE** - if purchased before Jan 14, 2020, there is a link to a video missing on slide 43 (thankyou to the customer who let me know!) Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0&list=PLITdDkbHFB05_ogOen9nll3fYdq04YPTX&index=14&t=236s

The unit for purchase after Jan 14, 2020 has been updated here on TpT.

The hard copy of thie unit is also available to purchase on CD that will be mailed to you, which also includes video clips, visual images, and bonus activities. See my store on TeachersPayTeachers to preview.

Thankyou for previewing and purchasing this product - please leave feedback on how this unit worked for you as I'm always looking to tweak and improve!

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71 pages

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NGSSMS-ESS3-1

Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes. Emphasis is on how these resources are limited and typically non-renewable, and how their distributions are significantly changing as a result of removal by humans. Examples of uneven distributions of resources as a result of past processes include but are not limited to petroleum (locations of the burial of organic marine sediments and subsequent geologic traps), metal ores (locations of past volcanic and hydrothermal activity associated with subduction zones), and soil (locations of active weathering and/or deposition of rock).

NGSS5-ESS3-1

Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

NGSSMS-ESS3-5

Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century. Examples of factors include human activities (such as fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and agricultural activity) and natural processes (such as changes in incoming solar radiation or volcanic activity). Examples of evidence can include tables, graphs, and maps of global and regional temperatures, atmospheric levels of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, and the rates of human activities. Emphasis is on the major role that human activities play in causing the rise in global temperatures.

NGSSHS-ESS3-1

Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity. Examples of key natural resources include access to fresh water (such as rivers, lakes, and groundwater), regions of fertile soils such as river deltas, and high concentrations of minerals and fossil fuels. Examples of natural hazards can be from interior processes (such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes), surface processes (such as tsunamis, mass wasting and soil erosion), and severe weather (such as hurricanes, floods, and droughts). Examples of the results of changes in climate that can affect populations or drive mass migrations include changes to sea level, regional patterns of temperature and precipitation, and the types of crops and livestock that can be raised.

NGSSMS-ESS3-4

Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems. Examples of evidence include grade-appropriate databases on human populations and the rates of consumption of food and natural resources (such as freshwater, mineral, and energy). Examples of impacts can include changes to the appearance, composition, and structure of Earth’s systems as well as the rates at which they change. The consequences of increases in human populations and consumption of natural resources are described by science, but science does not make the decisions for the actions society takes.

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