How do live lessons work?
Live lessons are interactive slides and course outlines that are used to teach Treeway Live Classes. Click on the arrows to navigate backward and forwards through the slides.
How Do I Use the Lesson Plans?
Read this lesson plan before class to familiarize yourself with the ideas and concepts you’ll be teaching the students. You may print this page out if you need to use it as a reference point during live classes.
This lesson is a guide, but feel free to expand on the content or decrease/increase what you teach depending on the learning levels of the students in your class or the amount of time you have to cover the material.
Can I show videos in live classes?
Yes, feel free to include additional material to supplement the class lesson material. Videos, Physical Objects, Games, Activities, etc. are okay to share in live classes.
Videos should have no advertisements or logos and should be viewed by you before showing them to the students to ensure no offensive or questionable content is included.
The video should make up only a small portion of the live class.
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Class Summary
In this lesson, students will learn why it is important to be environmentally aware. They will learn that Humans can save Earth’s natural resources by practicing the three Rs of conservation: reduce, reuse, recycle.
Lesson Slide
Main Teaching Points
Teach About Reduce, Reuse, Recycle:
- To stop trash from piling up on the Earth and making it dirty, we can make sure the trash never gets made in the first place.
- We can do this by reducing what we use and only taking what we need. When we have extra or too much something, we might throw it away. But if we take just what we need, we won’t have anything left over.
- We can keep the Earth clean by reusing things, instead of buying things that we use once and throw away. By reusing things and not throwing them away, we help to make less trash.
- Recycling is kind of like reusing something. But when we recycle, the object is made into something completely different and neve goes into a landfill.
- This is the recycling symbol. The arrows in this symbol remind us that our trash can be made into other, new things. When you see this symbol on something, it means that it can be recycled. Recyclable things with this symbol go into a recycling bin that has the same symbol.
Discussion Questions
- Why are land, water, and air important to people?
- Why do people have special responsibilities to take care of Earth?
- Do we live on the Earth by ourselves?
- What does garbage have to do with taking care of the earth?
- Who creates all the trash on Earth?
- What happens to a piece of trash when you throw it away?
- Why is it important to think about where our garbage goes?
- What happens when you recycle something?
- What are some ways we reuse things in our house?
Vocabulary Words
- pollute – to make dirty in a way that harms or damages things
- Pollution – trash or dirt that hurts or damages things
- recycle – reused to make something new
- reduce – to use less of something
- Reuse – To use again instead of throwing away
- creatures – Living beings, such as animals and/or people
- Earth – The planet that we live on; the world