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Earth Day!
Sarah Ramsey
Language Arts & Science
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Objectives/Student Outcomes
• Students will recognize and identify ways to preserve Earth’s limited resources.
• Students will practice the skill of writing sentences
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Rationale
• This lesson is designed to raise student’s awareness about Earth’s limited resources so that they can write effective sentences about saving the planet.
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Essential Question
• What can we do to help save our planet?
Student Responses
• Pick Up Trash
• Recycle
• Do not litter
• Turning off water when you brush your teeth
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Strategies
• Auditory: Hearing The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• Visual: Seeing the illustrations in The Lorax
• Written: Writing sentences on how to be “water wise.”
• Kinesthetic: Drawing a picture on the back of the worksheet on how to be “water wise.”
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Introduction
• Introducing April 22 as a special day and asking students if they know what that day is.
• Introduce The Lorax, and ask students if they can predict what will happen in the story
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Body
• Read The Lorax and as students about what happened in the story and why.
• Students will complete a sentence writing worksheet on being “water wise”
• Students will draw pictures on the back of their worksheet of a way that they have decided to be “water wise.”
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Closure
• Students will share the ways in which they have decided to be “water wise.”
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Student Samples
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Student Samples
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Student Samples
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Just For Fun!