Age: Year 4
Subject: Natural
Science
Content to
learn: environment
Key words:
environment, recycle, reduce, reuse, save, planet, atmosphere, world, climate
change, pollution, conservation, ecosystem, eco-friendly, chemicals,
extinction, greenhouse effect, noise pollution, ozone, solar energy, to
conserve…
Hi everyone!
Today que are
going to talk about environment. This is an important topic that involves our
lives and it’s important for our future. To start with I am going to ask you
some questions:
- How would you define the word climate change?
- Do put into practice the three R?
- Could you please name one animal in extinction?
- How can we reduce pollution?
- From your point of view, which are the causes of the greenhouse effect?
- How can we protect the atmosphere?
- What do you think is going to happen to the environment if we don’t make changes?
After discussing
all those questions and talking about why the environment is so important, we
are going to watch a video regarding possible solutions to save the
environment. By answering those questions we will be using words related to
environment. It is a useful method to learn new vocabulary, to start thinking
about solutions and to make the students feel comfortable talking about the
environment.
The video we are
going to watch is this one:
After watching the
video, now you should know the importance of the three R: Recycle, Reduce,
Reuse. I would like you to evaluate
yourself:
- Do you recycle always? Do you separate the rubbish into different bins?
- Do you try to reduce consume of water or electricity? Do to take care of turning off the lights?
- Have you ever reused the shopping bags?
One of the main
aims of this activity is to make students aware of the importance of the
environment and to think about different ways of saving it. Little by little it
can make a big difference. Working together, as a team will help them to find
better solutions. For that reason, the next activity will be in groups. I will
divided the whole class in 3 groups, the first one is going to focus on giving
ideas about what can they reduce. They will make a poster writing different
things they can reduce and writing some key words. The second group is going to
focus on recycle. What can they recycle? How can the recycle? What can they do
to make people aware of the importance of recycling? And the last group is
going to focus on reuse. What other things can they reuse to help the
environment? Do they reuse the shopping bags? Do they use so many unnecessary
objects?
The three groups
will make a poster with the main aspects they were thinking about and writing
key words so their colleagues can remember better what they have said. After
that they will do a presentation to the rest of the class.
To conclude the
lesson, you need to record a podcast individually explaining how the climate
change is damaging the environment and what can we do to stop it. Apart from
that, what can you do to save the world?
Thanks for
reading this and hope you enjoy it.
