I Can Make a Difference � How can my actions make a difference?
- responsibility
- stewardship
- science (living things, energy, consumption)
Students explore the inquiry question by considering how we affect the environment in our daily actions. The texts reveal how personal actions can help maintain a healthy environment for living things, how to plan a classroom course of action for minimizing waste, and how to reduce personal energy consumption. Students will focus on choices they can make to positively affect the environment.
Read Aloud � 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World
Non-fiction: description, report
This book presents 10 simple actions that readers can take to make a positive difference in the environment.
Partner-Shared Reading Texts
Opportunities for oral language activities and playful learning are woven throughout the unit as students discuss ways to create a healthy environment. They dramatize activities that can make a difference for the environment, draw, design, and use puppets to retell a story, and write a letter to the principal.
Art for the Birds Fiction: Narrative Realistic Story
- 1 Big Book
- 6 small book versions
A group of students learn what they can do to help protect wild birds from flying into the windows of their classroom.
How to Be an Eco Class Non-fiction: Persuasive Guide
- 1 Big Book
- 6 small book versions
This guide was created by Mrs. Robertson's Grade 1 'Eco Class' to give tips to others about how to be an environmentally friendly class.
Audio CD
Audio CD with fluent readings of Art for the Birds and How to Be an Eco Class.
DVD
DVD digital versions of the two shared reading texts, Art for the Birds and How to Be an Eco Class.
Teaching Guide � print and online
Includes a unit plan-at-a-glance, strategies for introducing the inquiry, using each component, extending the inquiry, inquiry assessment, Oral Language Assessment Scale, book handling, Working with Words, as well as text type writing and rubric for letter writing.