LFS Lesson Plan
8th Grade Impacts Unit
Day #1
The Story Of Stuff Unit Introduction
Unit EQ: How can the output of technology be both good and bad?
LEQ: What is necessary for sustainability?
Activating Strategies: List the three -R'sReduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Pass out Frayer diagrams to students with each of 3 r's on them. Have students define and give an example using Frayer Diagram.
Discuss the 3 topics in class after having students pass them to the right until they have seen all three words. Have students add things to diagrams as they pass them.
Ask the students if that is all that needs to be done? Would these three things solve all our pollution and resource problems?
Explain how things eventually get thrown away and that they still use energy from fossil fuels to recycle.
Have students label each picture during the movie and write in a simple definition.
Play the movie
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Summarizing Strategies:
Review the definitions on the Notes Page and have students complete any blanks.
Discuss what sustainability is and how the three R's can not get us there.
Have students give examples of systainable activities.
Homework: Read the 10 things you can do to help for homework. Then on lined paper write an answer to these questions:
Based on what you read, tell me what you are doing to help live a more sustainable lifestyle. What on the list will be the hardest to accomplish and why?
To be more sustainable, use the moodle site rather than a handout to read from.
8th Grade Impacts Unit
Day #1
The Story Of Stuff Unit Introduction
Based on what you read, tell me what you are doing to help live a more sustainable lifestyle. What on the list will be the hardest to accomplish and why?
To be more sustainable, use the moodle site rather than a handout to read from.