Michelle Terry

Title/Subject: Be Kind to Our Earth/Social Studies Grade Level: 4th Arkansas Frameworks Addressed: G.3.4.4 Explain how people are influenced by, adapt to, and alter the environment (e.g., agriculture, housing, occupation, industry, transportation, communication, acid rain, global warming, ozone depletion) G.3.4.6 Research ways in which the school and community can improve the physical environment by practicing conservation Common Core Standards Addressed: CC.4.R.L.1 Key Ideas and Details: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. CC.4.SL.1 Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others ideas and expressing their own clearly.

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Learning Goals: KNOW: The students will know the difference between kind choices and unkind choices that we make in regards to the Earth. UNDERSTAND: The students will understand that decisions that are made affect others and that one person can make a difference. BE ABLE TO DO: The students will be able to demonstrate the different ways we can make the community and world a better place. Materials: And Still the Turtle Watched by Sheila MacGill-Callalhan 5 Conversation Charades Cards (Recycle pop cans, turn off water, pick up litter, plant a tree, car pool) Procedures: *Review of relevancy of new learning to prior & future learning: This lesson builds on the concepts the students have previously been learning about in the unit. This gives the students more ideas on how we can make a difference and alter the world for the better. This also gives the students some insight in to the following lessons about water conservation and the three Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle).

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*Schema Activation: Ask the students if they have ever hear of a Manitou. Explain to the students that a Manitou is a supernatural spirit or force of nature in the religion of the Algonquian Indians. Tell them that today we will be reading a story about a Manitou. *Next Steps: Before reading the story tell the students that they should be listening closely to how the people in the book treat the earth. Read And Still the Turtle Watched by Sheila MacGill-Callalhan. After reading the book make two columns on the board: one labeled kind choices and the other labeled unkind choices. Ask the students to think back to the story and remember some kind or unkind choices that the people made to the Earth. Tell the students that there are some simple things that we can do to preserve the Earth and its resources. Break the students in to five groups. About 5-6 students in a group. Tell them that we are going to play conversation charades. Let them know that each group will be given a card and that as a group they will act it out for the class to guess. Have each group draw a card.

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Give the groups time to quietly discuss how they will act it out for the class.

Groups will then take turns acting their cards in front of the class.

*Closure: After each group has taken a turn acting out their card have a class discussion about how each one can help save our resources. Evaluation: I will know the students understood the objectives if they can list 4-6 unkind choices the people in the book made. I will know the students understood the objectives if they can list 3-5 kind choices the people in the book made. I will know the students understood the objectives if they can effectively act out and guess the charades cards about different ways to preserve the Earths resources.