The purpose of lesson 2 focuses on the importance of protecting our trees. Students will learn the positive affects of forests and trees as well as the consequences of deforestation. The first activity will explore each individual student's values around deforestation, the second activity is intended to educate students on the consequences of deforestation, and the final activity will re-iterate the importance of forest conservation.
Use words and phrases related to deforestation.
Form their own ideas/opinions on deforestation topics.
Find main ideas and facts from a video and take notes.
Practice pronunciation by using key vocabulary words throughout the unit.
Full lesson plan on Google Docs:
Time: 5 minutes
Basic Summary: Students will recap the reading of the Lorax, discuss they're favorite activity from the lesson, and share if they recited their songs or poems to anyone.
Time: 15- 20 minutes
Learning Objectives Targeted: 3
Basic Summary: Students will be asked the question "Why do you think trees are important?", and then discuss that question with their group members. After the discussion, students will yell out their answers to the teacher, who will write the responses on the board. Then, students will narrow down which 3 responses are the MOST important.
Time: 30 minutes
Learning Objectives Targeted: 2
Basic Summary: Students will watch this video twice, with the goal of comprehending the information and taking notes on what they deem important from the video. Have students compare notes and then re-ask the question from activity one: "Now after the video, why do you think trees are important?". Conclude the activity with asking the students feedback questions for the video.
Time: 25-30 minutes
Learning Objectives Targeted: 2
Basic Summary: Two teams of students will essentially be playing "telephone" with phrases related to deforestation. Basically, students will line up and a phrase will be whispered from the starting student to the next student in line, who must do the same to their neighbor with the sentence that was whispered to them. The phrase is passed along until it reaches the front of the line. A team will score a point if the starting phrase remains the same to the end. After explaining the game to the students, an example, and a practice round, the teacher will monitor the game and conclude a winning team after each student from every team has had a chance to start the round.
Time: 5 minutes
Learning Objectives Targeted: 3
Basic Summary: Students will be told will be making a presentation with a Adobe Spark video next lesson and should practice researching topics. Students will be given ideas for sources and told to explore deforestation articles.
Appendix A: Guided Note-Taking Sheet
Appendix B: Deforestation Video