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Waste Not, Want Not - Martha Speaks

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Title:

Waste Not, Want Not - Martha Speaks

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/msts14.ela.wastewant/waste-not-want-not/

Content Source:

PBS

Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

In this Martha Speaks interactive story, students explore the benefits of sorting waste in order to help the environment. Students learn about how recycling and composting work. When used as a part of Martha’s True Stories Buddies Program, buddy pairs engage with the interactive story, then talk and write as they create their own Earth Pledge about how they will help protect the earth. To familiarize yourself with the program, begin by reading the Martha's True Stories Buddies Program: Overview.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: K

6 ) Identify and plan possible solutions (e.g., reducing, reusing, recycling) to lessen the human impact on the local environment.*

NAEP Framework

NAEP Statement::
E4.10: The supply of many Earth resources such as fuels, metals, fresh water, and farmland is limited. Humans have devised methods for extending the use of Earth resources through recycling, reuse, and renewal.

NAEP Statement::
E4.11: Humans depend on their natural and constructed environment. Humans change environments in ways that can either be beneficial or detrimental for themselves and other organisms.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect

Disciplinary Core Idea: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Identify possible solutions to lesson the human impact on the local environment.
Plan possible solutions to lesson the human impact on the local environment.
Identify potential human impacts on the local environment.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Identify
Plan
Solution
Human impact
Local
Environment
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Causes
Create
Ask
Imagine
Improve

Knowledge:

Students know:

Human impact can have both positive and negative impact on the environment.
We can create possible solutions to reduce the negative impacts on the environment.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Identify possible solutions to lessen human impact on the environment.
Plan possible solutions to lessen human impact on the environment.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Human impact has a positive and negative effect on the local environment.
There are solutions that can lessen the negative impacts on a local environment.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Plants and Animals
*Exploring Plants and Animals, STC

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.K.6- Classify human activities as harmful or helpful to the environment.

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 5

16 ) Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth's natural resources and its environment (e.g., terracing land to prevent soil erosion, utilizing no-till farming to improve soil fertility, regulating emissions from factories and automobiles to reduce air pollution, recycling to reduce overuse of landfill areas).

NAEP Framework

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts: Systems and System Models

Disciplinary Core Idea: Earth and Human Activity

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Combine information from two or more sources to provide and describe evidence about: the positive and negative effects on the environment as a result of human activities as well as how individual communities can use scientific ideas and a scientific understanding of interactions between components of environmental systems to protect a natural resource and the environment in which the resource is found.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Natural Resource
Scientific idea
Individual
Community
Terracing
Erosion
Soil
No-till farming
Fertility
Emissions
Pollution
Recycling
Landfill

Knowledge:

Students know:

Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life can have major effects, both positive and negative, on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space.
Individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain how individuals and communities can protect Earth's natural resources and its environment.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Individual communities interact with components of environmental systems and can have both positive and negative effects.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Dynamics of Ecosystems

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.5.16- Identify a human action that can help the environment.

Tags:

compost, Earth, environment, human impact, recycle, recycling, waste

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Author:

Stephanie Carver

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Waste Not, Want Not - Martha Speaks