Keeping Our Oceans Clean

ENL Proficiency Level | ENL Program | Standards | Technology

Entering, Emerging   |   Stand-Alone   |   1RL1, 1W6   |   Nearpod, ChatGPT

Content

Students will able to explain why plastic pollution is bad for the ocean and how students can help. 

Procedure

Day 1:

• To introduce students to the topic They viewed several Nearpod Slides. Two of plastic in the ocean and one virtual field trip.   

  • Nearpod Slides

• Students answered the questions: What do you see/observe?  Is there a problem? What is the problem? Why is this a problem?

• Read Poem “Coral Reef” together to practice fluency.

Day 2:

• Read Poem “Coral Reef” together to practice fluency.

• Vocabulary Introduction.

• Students read aloud and repeated the following words from the book Alba and the Ocean Cleanup by Lara Hawthorne: Strange, beautiful, wonderful, clean, trash, garbage, collection, peculiar, reef, everywhere

• What words do they already know? Where have you heard them? Can you use them in a sentence? 

• Use brain map graphic organizer to spell clean and trash.

Day 3:

• Read Poem “Coral Reef” together to practice fluency.

• Next Students listened as I read, Alba and the Ocean Cleanup by Lara Hawthorne. 

  • Read aloud version on YouTube 

• Students answered comprehension questions throughout the book.

• Revisit Vocabulary: How can we use it to discuss/describe what’s happening in the book?

• Introduce Word Wheel and vocabulary activities. Students play a few rounds.

Day 4:

• Read Poem “Coral Reef” together to practice fluency.

• What is the problem? How can we help at home? How can we help at school?

• Students help teacher decorate boxes to place in the hallway asking fellow students to recycle plastic bottles.

Making it Public!

Students go on Park View TV, our school's live morning news presentation, and present this idea to their peers. They then help put out all the boxes around the school. The money collected will go to the school nurse for the holiday help fund.