Unit

Overview
Topic: Human Impact on the Environment Pollution and Conservation

Lesson/Day

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Science
Standard(s)
4.5.4.C
Describe
how human
activities
affect the
environment.

4.5.3.C
Identify
different
types of
pollution and
their sources

Audrey Allen
Elementary Methods: Dr. Alesha Gayle
April 26, 2016

Essential
Lesson Learning
Inquiry/
Question(s)
Target & Goal
Experiment/
Activity

How do
human
activities
affect the
environment?

What is land
pollution and
how is it
produced?

I can identify land

pollution and its
sources and describe
how human activities
affect the
environment.

Scholars will
understand key terms
such as pollution and
land pollution and
identify sources of
land pollution.
Additionally, scholars
will use the
understanding gained
in mini lesson and
exploration activity to
describe how human
activities can affect the
environment.

4.5.4.C
How do
I can identify air
Describe
human
pollution and its
how human activities
sources and describe
activities
affect the
how human activities
affect the
environment? affect the
environment.
environment.

What is air

4.5.3.C
pollution and Scholars will
Identify
how is it
understand the key
different
produced?
term air pollution and
types of

identify sources of air
pollution and
pollution. Additionally,
their sources
scholars will use the

Scholars create
pollution in a
jar activity
using land
pollution
collected from
local
environment
(schoolyard
and play
ground).

Upon
completing
activity and
lesson, scholars
will mix water
into pollution
in a jar jar to
create water
pollution for
later use.
Scholars
observe affect
of human
activities in the
environment
through
experiment
that simulates
the affect of air
pollution on
our
environment.

Assessment

Informally
assess scholar
engagement,
participation
in lab group
activities and
completion of
classwork.

Formal
assessment:
Land
Pollution Exit
Ticket.

Informally
assess scholar
engagement,
participation
in lab group
activities and
completion of
classwork.

Formal
assessment:
Air Pollution
Exit Ticket.

Lesson 3

4.5.4.C
Describe
how human
activities
affect the
environment.

4.5.3.C
Identify
different
types of
pollution and
their sources

How do
human
activities
affect the
environment?

What is water
pollution and
how is it
produced?

Lesson 4

4.5.4.C
Describe
how human
activities
affect the
environment.

3.4.3.B2
Explain how

How do
human
activities
affect the
environment?

How can I
create
something to

understanding gained
in mini lesson and
exploration activity to
describe how human
activities can affect the
environment. Because
air pollution is difficult
to see, scholars will
use the lesson
experiment to
understand how air
pollution caused by
human activities
affects our
environment.

I can identify water
pollution and its
sources and describe
how human activities
affect the
environment.

Scholars will
understand the key
term water pollution
and identify sources of
water pollution.
Additionally, scholars
will use the
understanding gained
in mini lesson and
exploration activity to
describe how human
activities can affect the
environment.
I can create something
to improve my school
community/environm
ent using re-used and
recycled materials and
describe how human
activities affect the
environment.

Scholars
complete
pollution in a
jar activity
started in
Lesson 1, and
use materials
from this
activity to
engage in
additional
experiment
reversing
water
pollution,
filtering the
pollution out of
the once clean
water.

Informally
assess scholar
engagement,
participation
in lab group
activities and
completion of
classwork.

Formal
assessment:
Water
Pollution Exit
Ticket.

Scholars create
bird feeders
and planters
using re-usable
and recyclable
material found
in classroom
and cafeteria to
demonstrate

Informally
assess scholar
engagement,
participation
in lab group
activities and
completion of
recycled
materials

materials are
re-used or
recycled

4.5.3.D
Identify and
propose a
solution for
waste in the
school
setting

Scholars will
demonstrate their
understanding of reused and recycled
materials by creating
something that
incorporates both to
improve their school
community/
environment. Scholars
will understand that
by creating something
to improve their
school environment
they are engaging in
an activity that has a
positive affect on their
environment.

3.4.3.B2
How do
I can identify items
Explain how human
that were either
materials are activities
recycled or
re-used or
affect the
sustainably sourced
recycled
environment? and describe how


their use helps our
4.5.4.C
What re-used environment.
Describe
or recycled

how human materials are Scholars will use the
activities
used in the
understanding they
affect the
Changing
have gained regarding
environment. Earth exhibit pollution,

at the
conservation, and the
Franklin
impact human
Institute?
activities have on our

environment to
engage with the
Changing Earth exhibit
at the Franklin
Institute and complete
the recycled and
sustainable materials
scavenger hunt.

Lesson 5

improve my
school
community/e
nvironment
using re-used
or recycled
materials?

how these
materials can
be used to
positively
affect the
environment.

creation.

Formal
assessment:
Reflection

Scholars
complete
Scavenger
Hunt for
Sustainable
and Recycled
Materials used
in Changing
Earth during
visit to the
Franklin
Institute.

Informally
assess scholar
engagement,
in scavenger
hunt, partner
participation
and
completion of
museum
activity.

Formal
assessment:
Museum Exit
Ticket