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10. Recognize that humans make choices that can have a negative or positive effect on the environment.
9. Understand that mean global temperature is rising, and that it is having an impact on humans and other living things.
8. Identify which human activities can cause air and water pollution.
7. Be able to communicate how and why humans have had such a negative impact on the environment.
6. Compare and contrast positive and negative human behaviors toward the environment.
5. Identify how technology and industrialization can have a positive or negative effect on the environment.
4. Understand ways in which the overuse of finite resources effects the environment.
3. Recognize that there are renewable and nonrenewable resources.
2. Identify the resources for survival that all organisms need.
1. Understand that all living things depend on their environment for survival.
Human Impact on the Environment Teacher Name- ___________________ Fourth Grade/Quarter 3
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Vocabulary acid rain carbon dioxide coal deplete endangered environment extinct finite fossil fuel invasive global warming habitat industrialization native (non-native) natural gas power plant preserve oil overhunting/fishing renewable (non-renewable) resources runoff sanctuary technology
REPORT CARD ALIGNMENT To determine quarterly performance level, please analyze the performance levels for each skill on the checklist ACADEMIC SKILL Uses inquiry and observation skills to generate hypotheses Applies skills; gathers, classifies, measures and records data Communicates scientific ideas effectively using content specific vocabulary Makes generalizations, draws logical conclusions, analyzes and interprets data
How do humans impact and change their environment? How do all living things depend on their environment for survival? How will the overuse of finite resources affect the way we live? How has technology and industrialization both positively and negatively affected the environment? Why have humans had such a negative effect on the environment? How have humans contributed to global warming?
Websites
National Wildlife Federation on Global Warming www.nwf.org/globalwarming PowerKids Press http://www.powerkidslinks.co m/faf/enviro
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
EPA Global Warming Site www.epa.gov/climatechange Environmental Defense Fund www.edf.org
ASSOCIATED CHECKLIST SKILLS 1, 5, 6, 7 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9
KUB LIST# 1 2
RESOURCES HOOK LESSON: The World as an Apple Read Aloud: The Good Garden by Katie Smith Milway http://www.thegoodgarden.org/ - online interactive activities and lesson plans
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Read Aloud: One Well: The Story of Water on Earth by Rochelle Strauss Read Aloud: Farming and the Environment by Richard and Louise Spilsbury
ACTIVITIES What If? Lesson Plan Attached Pictures of renewable and non-renewable resources Have students determine which resources are renewable & non-renewable Discuss water conservation
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Read Aloud: RECYCLE! by Gail Gibbons
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Who Polluted the River Lab (On Wiki)
Use sequencing words to create a class Powerpoint of Book of each Step of Recycling. Who Polluted the River?
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http://www.globeatnight.org/
Globe at Night Oil Experiment Lab Estuary
Activities Key (SB) science binder (WV) web based video (AS) assessment suggestion (H) Hook/Kick Off Suggestion (BK) Trade Book (TC) Teacher Created
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Who Polluted the River Lab (On Wiki) Read Aloud Global Warming by Seymour Simon
http://nexteraenergy.apogee.net/kids/funsolar.aspx
Who Polluted the River? While reading aloud Students create a I see/Therefore I am Thinking Chart. Based on this chart- Create a class list of Reasons for Global Warming Students look at pictures of Glaciers from 1954 and 2004 in the book. Compare and contrast what they see. Create a class list of what we can do as individuals, schools, communities Create a cause and effect chart to show How our individual actions affect the world around us. Make a Solar Cooker
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Common Ground The Water, Earth, and Air We Share by Molly Bang
Measuring Temperature of Different Surfaces Lab
Measuring Temperature of Different Surfaces