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ESL Teaching Tools for Environmental Science
Sarah O’Donnell
Cheryl Lechtanski
North Plainfield High School
Objectives
• Share a number of teaching tools– Currently in use at North Plainfield High
School– Aligns with the Sheltered Instruction
Observation Protocol (SIOP) model
Our Application of the SIOP Model
• Content (science) and language objectives
• Building background
• Scaffolding– Verbal, e.g., questioning– Procedural, e.g., partnering– Instructional, e.g., graphic organizers
• Variety of activities
Current Applications
• Environmental Science course– Sheltered– Non-sheltered
Field Trips
• Raptor Trust (Millington, NJ)– http://www.theraptortrust.org
Games
• Food Chain Game
• Crossword Puzzles– Water Pollution
Games
• Food Chain Game (based on Loch Ness)– http://www.3dlochness.com/schools-info.htm
Games
• Crossword Puzzles– Water Pollution Crossword Puzzle
(http://www.puzzlemaker.com )
Activities
• White Deer Population
• Think, Pair, Share
• Food Chains and Trophic Levels
• Draw an Atom
Activities• White Deer Population
– Adapted from Penn State Environment and Ecological Lesson Plan Series, where students
• Calculate deer population growth on a deer farm where harvesting occurs
• Analyze data and suggest good management practices
Activities
• Think, Pair, Share– Build an animal
• Assessment on understanding of adaptation, where students
– Select a biome– Create a fictitious animal with adaptations that allow it to
survive in the chosen biome– List the specific adaptations and their survival benefits– Present work to class
Activities
• Food Chains and Trophic Levels, where students– Learn new vocabulary– Identify a list of organisms as producers,
consumers, or decomposers
Activities
• Draw an Atom– Assessment on the components of an atom
• Each student draws an atom from the Periodic Table
Labs
• Mark and Recapture Lab
• Dew Point Lab
• What is a Greenhouse? Lab
• pH Lab: Do we have acid rain?
Labs• Mark and Recapture Lab, where students
– Learn concepts and vocabulary of population size estimation
– Apply mark and recapture procedure using peanuts, paper bags and markers
– Evaluate pros and cons of procedure
Labs
• Dew Point Lab, where students– Learn concept and vocabulary of ‘dew point’– Measure ‘dew point’ using the cold can
method– Write a summary of what they learned
Labs
• What is a Greenhouse? Lab– EPA Report No. EPA/600/R-93/126. U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency – http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_2_12t.htm
Labs• pH Lab: Do we have acid rain in North
Plainfield?, where students– Learn and apply pH scale– Compare pH of tap water, rain water, cola,
vinegar and soapy water