Environments: Actions and Consequences: The Great Garbage Patch: Grade 2

Engage young students in the topic of environments and taking responsibility for personal actions. One's bedroom and/or the planet are both examples of "our environment". Students take the consequences of their actions personally and begin to think locally and globally. The great garbage patch is a growing concern for all ages. It's time to take responsibility and clean up our mess!

Also, a great product to connect with learning around Earth Day.

Matches NEW BC Curriculum for Grade 2 Social Studies

Big Idea: Local actions have global consequences, and global actions have local consequences.

What you will find here:

7 Lessons

Lesson One: Where Does All the Garbage Go?

• Lesson Plan
• Graphic Organizer: Know/Wonder
• Song: "One Little Bit"

Lesson Two: Reduce/Reuse/Recycle or to the Landfill?

• Lesson Plan
• Recycle Art
• "Where does all the garbage go after we throw it away?" - 2 graphic organizers
• Picture: "What could we do about this": Think/Write
• Journey to the Landfill: Maze

Lesson Three: "New Continent" in the Pacific Ocean

• True/false cards
• Picture of the "New Continent"
• Size of the "New Continent"
• True of False Activity
• True or False: Teacher pages
• An Experiment

Lesson Four: Making It Personal

• Lesson Plan
• Graphic Organizer: Write/Fill it in
• Describe Your Bedroom: Write/Fill it in
• Checklist: Graphic Organizer
• My Commitment: Write/Fill it in

Lesson Five: A Different Way

• "If I don't . . . Then": 3 pages with pictures to respond to
• Finding Solutions: Read/Think/Write
• A Different Way: An African Solution to a Big Problem!
• Things We Throw Away: Brainstorm
• A Different Way: Thinking solutions!

Lesson Six: "My Desk is an Environment?"

• The Rating Scale: 1-5
• The Gallery Walk: Record Sheet
• Getting Myself Organized: Graphic organizer for record keeping
• The World is Our Home: Aboriginal Perspective
• Making a Circular World Model: Art Project Activity: 5 pages/all instructions included

Lesson Seven: "It's Time to Clean Up!"

• Taking Care of Our School Environment
• Review Questions: TED TALK
• Response page
• 3 Things I've Learned: Wrap up/Assessment
• Graphic Organizer: "If we don't respect, value or care for our Earth": Wrap up/Assessment

Fun Stuff

• Environment: Word Search
• Define Words: Write Sentences
• Super Hero Recycler: Count by 2's
• Superhero Recycler Maze

If you like this you may also love these aligned BC Social Studies Products: ❤️

Grade 1/2

⭐All About Communities: "Just Right" Reading PLUS Activities

⭐All About Me: Who Am I? Culture and Diversity

⭐George Washington Carver: Inventor/Black Hero

⭐Rosa Parks: Women/Black Hero

Grade 2

⭐Grade 2 Full Year Program: Developing Critical Thinking Skills through content

⭐Significant Places Postcard Project: Around the Continents

⭐Continent Cut-Outs

⭐All About Me: Cultural Significance

⭐Early Canada: Things Change Over Time

⭐Environments: Recognizing Actions Have Consequences

⭐Story: Integrating Social Studies with Language Arts

⭐Bundle: Kenojuak Ashevak: Inuit: Visual Artist

⭐Terry Fox: Famous Canadian: Run for Terry

⭐Remembrance Day: Peace

⭐Empathy and Social Awareness: Change the World!

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