Standards Covered by this Lesson
Students will engage in challenges related to environmental health and science focused around different types of pollution and they will discuss how these issues affect the environment.
- STANDARDS Aligned to this Lesson/Activity
- SCIENCE SCoS
- Understand the impact of human activities on the environment (one generation affects the next).
- Bio.2.2.1 Infer how human activities may impact the environment.
- HEALTH SCoS
- 6.PCH.3 Analyze measures necessary to protect the environment.
- Other standards we can consider:
- 6.PCH.3.1 Differentiate between individual behaviors that can harm or help the environment.
- 6.PCH.3.2 Implement plans to work collaboratively to improve the environment.
- ISTE Standards for Students
- Standard 1: Creativity and Innovation
- Students generate new ideas using their existing knowledge as well as newly learned information to create original products that demonstrate what the group is thinking.
- Standard 2: Communication and Collaboration
- Students work together to complete the scavenger hunt to publish their creations about different environmental issues that surround the local environment. Groups are also working with others to learn more about other environmental issues during the Gallery Walk.
- ISTE Standards for Teachers
- Standard 1: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
- Students explore real-world environmental issues that exist in their surroundings.
- Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessment
- This is a technological twist on how scavenger hunts have been done in the past. It enables more authentic student learning and lets students be creative in how they present what they have learned.