Day One
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Specific Learner Outcomes:
Mathematics:
Students will...
- Represent and describe numbers to 10,000, pictorially and symbolically.
- Demonstrate an understanding of multiplication to solve problems.
- Identify and describe patterns in tables and charts.
- Demonstrate an understanding of many-to one correspondence.
English Language Arts
Students will...
- Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences.
- Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to manage ideas and information.
Activity:
- Students will be asked how much waste they think one individual, on average, contributes to the world each day. Students will research this using technology.
- Students will then have a class discussion, comparing their findings. In small groups, students will make a table like the one below; representing how much waste one person makes. They will be encouraged to research estimates for how many people live in their communities, city, and country, in order to come up with how much waste each of these groups creates on a daily basis.
- In small groups, students will discuss their ideas on how to come up with their estimates and fill their table in with results.
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4. The end of the class will involve a personal reflection to be completed by students; this will include a brainstorm of different ideas and strategies of Action Plans to decrease waste by individuals.
Day Two
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Specific Learner Outcomes:
Mathematics:
Students will...
English Language Arts
Students will...
Social Studies
Students will...
-Demonstrate care and concern for the environment through their choices and actions
(Alberta Education, 2006)
Science
Students will...
Activity:
Mathematics:
Students will...
- Identify and describe problems in tables and charts.
- Describe and apply mental mathematics strategies
- Translate among different representations of a pattern, such as a table, a chart or concrete materials.
- Construct and interpret pictographs and bar graphs involving many-to-one correspondence to draw conclusions.
English Language Arts
Students will...
- Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences.
- Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others.
Social Studies
Students will...
- Value Alberta’s physical geography and natural environment
-Demonstrate care and concern for the environment through their choices and actions
(Alberta Education, 2006)
Science
Students will...
- Distinguish between wastes that are readily biodegradable and those that are not.
- Identify kinds of wastes that may be toxic to people and to the environment.
Activity:
- One by one, students will be asked to share their findings for their tables from Day One. Students will compare their results with their peers, and will be provided feedback by their classmates.
- Students will create bar graphs with their information, to visually represent the massive amounts of waste created by one individual, one family, one community, one city, and one country per day. Students will be encouraged to represent their bar graphs in a multitude of ways; either by using technology or art.
- The brainstorming activity of Action Plans from Day one, will be shared with the class. Students will work in small groups to come up with an Action Plan, including methods of waste disposal and new transportation ideas.
Days Three and Four
Specific Learner Outcomes:
Mathematics:
Students will...
- Demonstrate an understanding of fractions less than or equal to one by using concrete, pictorial, or symbolic representations. Relate decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals.
- Construct and interpret pictographs and bar graphs involving many-to-one correspondence to draw conclusions.
- Express a given problem as an equation in which a symbol is used to represent an unknown number.
English Language Arts
Students will...
- Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others.
Social Studies
Students will...
- Value Alberta’s physical geography and natural environment
-Demonstrate care and concern for the environment through their choices and actions
(Alberta Education, 2006)
Fine Arts (Drama):
Students will...
- Communicate effectively from a prepared script
Activity:
- A City Planner, expert, will be brought in for the morning. Students will be introduced to different ways the city plans on mitigating waste, including city wide recycling plans and their economic implications.
- In small groups, students will develop an Action Plan to combat the waste humans contribute to the world.
- The Action Plans can include
- Ideas for disposal of waste
- New methods of transportation
- Individual differences
- Recycling
- Government plans
- The Action Plans must include an economic plan, with projected costs. Students will use multiplication and bar graphs to represent how much each component of their plan will cost. (math)
- The Action Plans must include government implications and plans. (social studies)
- The Action Plans must be drafted in a script for the students' final news broadcast. The draft of the script will be assessed by the teacher. (english language arts)
Day Five
Specific Learner Outcomes:
Mathematics:
Students will...
English Language Arts
Students will...
Social Studies
Students will...
-Demonstrate care and concern for the environment through their choices and actions
(Alberta Education, 2006)
Activity:
Mathematics:
Students will...
- Construct and interpret pictographs and bar graphs involving many-to-one correspondence to draw conclusions.
- Express a given problem as an equation in which a symbol is used to represent an unknown number.
English Language Arts
Students will...
- Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others.
Social Studies
Students will...
- Value Alberta’s physical geography and natural environment
-Demonstrate care and concern for the environment through their choices and actions
(Alberta Education, 2006)
Activity:
- Students will share their Action Plans with the class in a presentation.
- Students will be able to prepare questions for each group that presents. The Action Plan presentations will be assessed using a Process and Presentation Rubric attached below.
- Throughout presentations, students will take notes, and ask their peers questions that may include:
- How did you figure out how much money your recycling program costs?
- What would happen if your Action Plan was implemented worldwide?
- How involved do governments need to be in order for your Action Plan to be effective?