PBI Unit Project

5E Lesson Plan #

AUTHORS’ NAMES: Clancy Dunn

TITLE OF THE LESSON: Recyle

TECHNOLOGY LESSON (circle one): Yes No

DATE OF LESSON: 12-06-2008

LENGTH OF LESSON: 45min

NAME OF COURSE: Health Education

TEKS ADDRESSED:

(10) Influencing factors. The student evaluates the effect of a variety of environmental factors on community and world health. The student is expected to:

(A) assess the impact of population and economy on community and world health;

(B) analyze the impact of the availability of health services in the community and the world; and

(C) describe a variety of community and world environmental protection programs.

CONCEPT STATEMENT: How can recycling help with the landfill problem?

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES:

Students will match the vocabulary words with the definitions.

Students will explain the benefit of recycling to the environment.

Students will list three things they can recycle at home.

Students will list several ways that home recycling can be profitable.

Students will discuss how recycling may help solve the landfill problems in
urban areas.

Students will name and locate on a map three different landfill areas in the
south suburban area.

SUPLEMENTARY MATERIALS, HANDOUTS:

The following materials will make one game packet for a class of fifteen.

250-Index cards any size (number depends on class size, each game set requires
50 cards 25 red and 25 blue)

3 18"X 24" Posterboard               1 Overhead projector

1 X-acto knife or razor blade        3 Transparencies

1 Ruler                              15 Pencils (regular school pencil)

1 Overhead projector                 15 Sheets of graph paper

1 Map of local area (road map )      300 Poker chips red, blue, and white

Engagement		Time: ________
What the Teacher Will Do	Probing Questions	Student Responses Potential Misconceptions
Discussion on landfills and problems that relate to the landfills.	What are some problems that you would associate with and fills?	I thought that landfills are safe.

Exploration		Time: ________
What the Teacher Will Do	Probing Questions	Student Responses Potential Misconceptions
Show grids on overhead. 1. Grid one shows one square, the square represents the garbage one family creates in one day. 2. Grid two shows five squares, the squares represent the garbage of five families in one day. 3. Grid three shows twenty-five squares representing the garbage twenty-five families create in one day. 4. Talk about the number of families in the area and the amount of garbage created by those families. D. Intro to home recycling, what materials can be recycled and the benefits to the individual and the environment. E. Simulation game (for instructions and rules send a self addressed 8 1/2 X 11 envelope to the address above) F. Graph the results of the simulation.	How can the grids help us represent a way to reduce waste?	Recycling does not have that big an impact?

Explanation		Time: ________
What the Teacher Will Do	Probing Questions	Student Responses Potential Misconceptions
Discussion on the problem of volume in recycling and demonstration of reducing volume and setting up home recycling centers.	Looking at the demonstration what an we do to reduce the amount waste that we use on a daily basis.

Elaboration		Time: ________
What the Teacher Will Do	Probing Questions	Student Responses Potential Misconceptions
The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate to students the effect of recycling on the environment by reducing the amount of garbage going to the landfill. In addition, the economic advantages to the recycler and the community will become evident after playing the game. The lesson will give the student the opportunity to experience some of the problems related to recycling in the home and in the community.	Students will understand what problems can arise from use of landfills and just how recycling can make an impact on us.

Evaluation		Time: ________
What the Teacher Will Do	Probing Questions	Student Responses Potential Misconceptions
Home work assignment

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