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Trash Lesson Plans
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Students investigate past and present human activities and how they affect the Chesapeake Bay. In this life science lesson students determine what actions will positively affect the health of organisms in the bay.
Students identify at least three common repercussions of developing water front property on water quality. They describe three sources of water pollution. They research the organism striped bass and observe it if striped bass is available.
Students engage in the study of the human impact on environmental systems (specifically rivers). This lesson enhances Students' exploration of a variety of themes or topics.
Students examine the way habitats and human organ systems function. In groups, they role play the role of a government group assigned to determine if a settlement can make their home in a specific area. They must discover how humans and the environment might be effected if the area is settled.
Young scholars examine and identify the types of nonpoint pollution on Long Island Sound. In groups, they walk the shoreline, collect trash and identify its source. Using that information, they create a variety of graphs of the different types of trash they found. To end the lesson, they work together in groups to create a poster and presentation to share their results with the class.
Students discover how humans impact natural resources. In this environmental activity, students identify water resources in the local area and construct a T-chart to compare the positive and negative effects humans have on water resources.
Students investigate solid waste. In this environmental instructional activity, students collect their own garbage for a day and analyze the weight and the percentage of recyclable items in their trash.
Students explore the interdependency between humans and the ecosystems. They examine how uncontrolled development threatens the rain forests. They discuss how human actions affect the rain forest.
Students investigate energy and their impact on the environment. In this environmental lesson plan, students will conduct a series of three activities that will help in their understanding of energy and how we use it.
Students set up stations for waste, recycling, and composting, while predicting and comparing ways to reduce trash collection. They research recycling companies for ideas and detail the best practices for trash reduction. Students consider if their small operations could be transposed to a larger scale.
