KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Teacher Candidate:

Marissa Weidner

Cooperating Teacher:
Group Size:

20

Subject or Topic:

Date:

N/A
Allotted Time

2 Weeks

Environmental Awareness

3/13/14
Coop. Initials
Grade Level

2nd Grade

Section

STANDARD:
4.5.2.D.
Describe how people can help the environment by reducing, reusing, recycling, and
composting
I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes):
The 2nd grade students will be able to practice ways to reduce waste in the classroom and
at home.
II.
Instructional Materials
Optional: Interactive Whiteboard
Large zip-top plastic bags
Scale
Chart Paper
Printouts and copies of the following BrainPOP Jr. worksheets and activities: Word
Wall words and Brainstorming
Paper
Pencils
Computers
III.
Subject Matter/Content (prerequisite skills, key vocabulary, big idea)
A. Prerequisites:
B. Key Vocabulary/Content:
Recycle
Conserve
Environment
Pollution
Waste
IV.
Implementation
A. Introduction
1.) Ask your students where they think all this waste ends up.

2.) Use the Brainstorming Web graphic organizer to keep track of their
answers
B. Development
Set out the bags on the desks in the classroom.
Ask students to think of ways to categorize the waste in the bags.
Over the following weeks, students can bring in and decorate
recycling bins for the classroom, hallway, and lunchroom.
Students can buy and use less packaging in their lunches, begin to
use scrap paper for classwork, sharpen pencils less frequently, etc.
As students continue to reduce, reuse, and recycle their waste, they
should continue to track how much garbage they generate in a single
day.
It might be easiest to record the total class waste once or twice each
week on a class graph throughout the unite, so students dont have to
carry their garbage around all day every day!
C. Closure
Students will write a letter to Tim and Moby describing what
they have learned about waste. They will also write two ways
they can reduce the waste they produce in a given day, including
recycling and reusing materials.
When the class has reached the goal of producing 50% of their
waste, they can have an Earth Day film festival to celebrate in the
classroom or school-wide.
D. Accommodations/Differentiation
E. Assessment/Evaluation Plan
1. Formative: exit slips
2. Summative: Letter to Tim and Moby
V.

Reflective Response
A. Report of Students Performance in Terms of Stated Objectives (after lesson is
taught)
Remediation Plan

VI.

B. Personal Reflection
How could this lesson be improved?
After completing this lesson, do the students understand how to help
the environment?
Resources

Environmental Awareness Lesson Plan: Reducing Waste. (n.d.). BrainPOP Educators

Environmental Awareness Lesson Plan Reducing Waste Comments. Retrieved
March 13, 2014, from http://www.brainpop.com/educators/community/lesson-plan/
environmental-awareness-lesson-plan-reducing-waste/?bp-jr-topic=reducereuse-recycle

Exit Slip
Name:

Date:

1. How can we reuse materials in class?

2. What items are recycled the most in class?

3. How can we be more environmentally friendly in the classroom and even at home?