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June 27, 2012

Don’t Use It All Up!

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Brief Description: Students participate in a sponge demonstration to discover that people are consumers of resources and explore methods of conserving those resources.

 

OBJECTIVES

(Note: All five objectives are appropriate for older students; younger students may accomplish only the first two objectives.)

The student will:

  • state one demand he or she places on a natural resource;
  • explain how a demonstration of sponges and water symbolizes human resource consumption;
  • demonstrate the effects of growing populations on available natural resourceS through reallife examples;
  • state at least one example of conserving a natural resource and justify the importance of doing so; and
  • graph the percentages of distribution of water on Earth.

ESTIMATED TEACHING TIME

Two sessions: 30 to 45 minutes each for younger students.

Three sessions: 30 to 45 minutes each for older students.

Project Food, Land & People Alignment to Maine Learning Results:
Parameters for Essential Instruction Public Domain Lessons

Discipline & Standard

Grade Span/Grade

 

PreK-2

3-5

6-8

9-Diploma

English Language Arts

 

 

 

 

   B. Writing

B3

B1e, B3a

 

 

Mathematics

 

 

 

 

   B. Data – Data Analysis

 

 

Grade 6: B2

 

 

 

 

Grade 7: B1a

 

Science & Technology

 

 

 

 

   A. Unifying Themes

A2

A2

A2a*

 

   B. Skill/traits of Scientific Inquiry

B1a, B1b

 

 

 

   C. Science, Technology & Society

 

C3c

 

 

Social Studies

 

 

 

 

   A. Applications of Social Studies Process,
        Knowledge & Skills

A3

A3

A3

 

Visual & Performing Arts

 

 

 

 

   B. Creation, Performance, Expression –Visual

B3

B3

 

 

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