Environment
Planting the trees of Kenya
Author(s): Claire A. Nivola
Links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3czVYI7
Indigo: https://bit.ly/2z3dmqL
Social Justice focus: Environmental degradation
Synopsis: This book highlights the destruction of the environment, that has been a repeating issue for many years. I feel like many generations can learn the lessons from this book. One current event that we can connect to this is deforestation, especially deforestation of the rainforest. The rainforest makes up 20% of the planet’s oxygen, and by cutting down the plants and trees for illegal logging, agriculture, forest fires, and oil drilling, not only the people in the Amazon suffer, but everyone globally suffers. Students can further explore this issue and how look deeper into the impacts. Additionally, we can discuss the fires in Australia and how that is impacting the lives of the people and animals in Australia.
Lesson Plan: Sarah Castelli
Primary/Junior/Intermediate Lesson Plan (Abbreviated Template)
Consecutive and Concurrent Programs
Unit/Topic: Procedural Writing
Grade: 7
Lesson: Introduction to Procedural Writing
Curriculum Areas: Literacy, Geography, Science
Curriculum Expectations:
Literacy – Writing
Overall Expectations:
1. Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience
2.Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience
Specific Expectations:
1.3Gather information to support ideas for writing, using a variety of strategies and a wide range of print and electronic resources
1.6 Determine whether the ideas and information they have gathered are relevant, appropriate, and sufficiently specific for the purpose, and do more research if necessary
2.1 Write complex texts of different lengths using a wide range of forms
Geography
Overall Expectations:
B1 By the end of Grade 7, students will B1 Application: analyse aspects of the extraction/harvesting and use of natural resources in different regions of the world and assess ways of preserving these resources (Focus On: Spatial Significance; Interrelationships)
B3 Understanding Geographic Context:
Specific Expectations:
B1.2 Analyse natural resource extraction/harvesting and use in some specific regions of the world
B1.4 Create a personal plan of action outlining how they can contribute to more sustainable natural resource extraction/harvesting and/or use
B3.2 Describe ways in which people use the natural environment, including specific elements within it, to meet their needs and wants
B3.3 Identify significant short and long-term effects of natural resource extraction/harvesting and use on people and the environment
B3.5 Describe some responses to social and/or environmental challenges arising from the use of natural resources
Science
Overall Expectations:
2.Investigate interactions within the environment, and identify factors that affect the balance