Lesson Plan

Grade/Subject: 4/5 / Wellness

Unit/Topic: Care for this Place
Lesson Duration: 35 minutes
OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES
General Learning Outcomes:
 Develop an appreciation for the environment.

Specific Learning Outcomes:

 Demonstrate an understanding of what the 3 Rs mean.
 Demonstrate an understanding of why the 3 Rs are important and what they do for the
environment.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
 Students will write down ways they can enact the 3 Rs (Reduce Reuse Recycle)
 Students will examine why enacting the 3 Rs is important for the Earth and future
generations.
 Answer simple questions about the video the watched to demonstrate comprehension of the
material.

ASSESSMENTS
Key Questions:
 What does it mean to care for this place?
 Why should we care for this place?
 What happens if we don’t care for this place?
 Can we relate this to the seven sacred teachings?

Observations:
 Who has thoughtful answers?
 Who is engaged?
 Have they gained appreciation for the environment by doing this lesson?

Written/Performance Assessments: Table group questions on their desks.

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED
Resource #1: Fun World for Kids
MATERIALS AND SETUP
● Video on the ● Students will watch the video, then answer a few questions
smartboard on their whiteboard desks.
 ● Questions on ● Discussion before the video and follow-up discussion after
smartboard the questions.
● Answer questions on
desks
PROCEDURE
Introduction ( 5 min.) Assessments
Getting Started Observations
 Explain that today we will be looking at the third pillar of  Who participated in
care, what it means to care for this place, and ways we can discussion?
show care for this place. I think by the end of the lesson  Do they have a general
you will all have more appreciation for the Earth and the understanding of ‘Caring
city we live in. for This Place’?
 Ask students what it means to care for this place.  Are they intrigued by
o It means to show respect to your environment the topic?
o be grateful for your surroundings (not everyone
Assessments:
has schools like this, not everyone has clean rivers
 Gauge prior knowledge
you can swim in in the summer, not everyone has
by asking what it means
clean air in their city.
to show respect for your
o Did you know some people consider Calgary the
environment.
cleanest city in the world? That’s because we
 Gauge if they
recycle, have a government that takes care of
understand the
garbage, recycling, and compost, and most of the
importance of taking
citizens take good care of the city. Other cities can
care of your
be very dirty. (google ‘dirty city’?)
environment with the
o understand that if it’s not taken care of, it will be
Calgary vs other parts of
destroyed.
the world example.
 Tell them today we’re going to focus on caring for the
earth in general and why it’s important that everyone
does their part.
 Tell them we’re going to watch a quick video now.

Body ( 25 min.) Assessments

Body Questions:
 Watch the video (4 mins)  What are the 3 Rs?
 Ask them what the 3 Rs are.  What do they mean?
 Write them on the board.  Additional interesting
 Ask them what each of the 3 Rs mean things?
 Write their descriptions on the board  Questions on
 Ask students what’s one more thing they learned or found smartboard.
interesting from that video.  How can we relate what
 Now tell them they’re about to do an activity in their table we’ve learned today to
the seven sacred
 groups. teachings?
 Put questions up on smartboard.
Observations:
 Use magic word
 Who is on task?
 Tell them they are to discuss the questions in their table
 Who has thoughtful
groups, then everyone should write their own answers on
answers?
their own desks. If they can’t remember what all 3 Rs
 Who seems lost?
mean they are up on the board. Give them 7 minutes.
 Walk around and assist
 Get everyone back to one side of the room.
 Ask if anyone would like to share how they plan to use the
3 Rs more (do one R at a time)
 Go over next 2 questions
 How can we relate what we’ve learned today to the 7
sacred teachings?
o The buffalo, represents respect, treat your body
with respect and it will look after itself, treat it
with poison and it will destroy itself.
o The earth is a living thing, just like our bodies. It’s
covered in plants and animals, and has rivers,
lakes, and oceans that provide plants and animals
with water required to live. If we treat the earth
with respect and don’t pollute it, it will take care
of itself. If we treat it with poison, like garbage,
chemicals, air pollution, it will be destroyed. It’s
important that we respect the earth for our own
well-being and the next generation’s too.
o The beaver, represents wisdom. Ask if anyone can
take a guess at wisdom vs knowledge.
o Wisdom is gained experience
o The beaver says “When one pollutes the water,
one does not break a human law, but the law of
nature, which states that to poison the water, is to
destroy oneself.”
o This is wisdom because people have learned this
lesson from experience. If the water is polluted,
nature is being poisoned. Not only are the plants
and animals that rely on that water being
damaged, but we are too because we need that
water. When we pollute the water, we are
destroying ourselves.
o What can the seven sacred teachings teach us
about caring for our environment? We must
respect our environment and be wise enough to
 know what’ll happen if we disrespect it.

Conclusion (5 min.) Assessments

Review Questions:
 Go over what each of the 3 Rs mean  Review 3 Rs.
 Recall how long it can take garbage to biodegrade (150  Review last 2 questions
years) so we shouldn’t litter. and why they’re
 Recall how our oceans are being cluttered with islands of important.
garbage. These islands of garbage can be bigger than the  One new thing question.
size of our city! (Maybe google great pacific garbage patch  Do you care about the
to show them the size) environment more
now?
 Can someone tell me one thing they learned today they
didn’t know before?
 Do you care about the environment more after today’s
lesson? Why?
REFLECTION