LESSONPLANTEMPLATE

Your Name: Star Grijalva

Title of Lesson: What have we learned about water and the effects on population?
Grade: 4th

STANDARDS
NOTE: Please list at least two complete standards your lesson plan covers. [Common Core
State Standards (math and language arts), Next Generation Science Standards (science),
Arizona State Social Studies Standards (social studies)].

PO 1. Describe how natural events and human activities have positive and negative
impacts on environments (e.g., fire, floods, pollution, dams).

Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and

information clearly. a. Introduce a topic clearly and group related information in
paragraphs and sections; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and
multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

LESSON SUMMARY/OVERVIEW
This lesson will help students to fully acknowledge all information they have gathered about
water by creating a bigger picture of their results. Students will reflect on how water that is
contaminated or unhealthy effects human health and environmental health by providing an
illustration. This will be completed individually as all other assignments leading up to this lesson
was in groups.

OBJECTIVES
Describe what you want students to know/be able to do as a result of the lesson.
For example, Students will be able to

Students will be able to describe in detail the differences in human and environmental
health.

Students will be able to use strategic thinking in writing/illustrating their gathered

information of keeping water sustainable.

ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION
What measures will you use to know if you students met the objectives?
The students will complete a scenario or picture of all the information they have learned about
what sustainable water is. This scenario will include:
What Environmental health is, as well as human health.
The effects of contaminated water on human health and environmental health
3 ways to keep water safe and clean and lastly,
 3 things students will change in their life to help keep water qualitative.

PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE
What will students need to know prior to completing this lesson and how will you access
their prior knowledge?
Before completing this project, students will need to know what makes water unsafe and how it
becomes that way. Prior to bringing all information into one final piece, students will learn
definitions of human and environmental health, also what strategic thinking is and how it can
help us as individuals to make better decisions, and not waste water. As a reminder, the students
will be given a facts list that they had created prior to this lesson, in order to guide them
through this individual practice.

MATERIALS
List of required materials.
Colors: Pencils, markers and/or crayons
Facts list
Poster paper
Pencils

VOCABULARY/KEY WORDS
List of key vocabulary terms.
Environmental Health
Human Health
Contaminate
Pollutants
Sustainability

TEACHING PROCEDURES
1. Ask students to think for a second about the water in a water bottle. Ask the students if
they know exactly where that water came from and how it came to become?
2. Have the students think about their answers and then share at their tables what they came
up with.
3. After students have shared, show students, what contaminated water looks like in a water
bottle and then have a clean water bottle right next to the water bottle that is
contaminated. Ask students if they know what contaminated means.
4. Share the definition of contamination with the students, and have them read it along with
you from a PowerPoint
5. The students will then be given, from the PowerPoint, for clarification again, what
environmental health and human health is. On this PowerPoint, the students will have the
facts list that they made themselves from the days prior to assist them in their project.
 There will be a video of the effects of bad water to humans and the world in general that
students will watch before they are told about their big project.
6. The students will be directed to take out their assignments from last week from learning
about water.
7. Here, the students will be told that they are to complete a visual representation of the
question, what have we learned about water and the effects on population? using
strategic thinking to help them guide their illustrations.
8. The teacher will make a list of negative effects of bad water on one side of the board and
a list of how to keep water sustainable on another side of the board. This step is to see
how much students have learned prior to this lesson about ways to save water.
9. An example poster will be shown to the students to give them idea or a start to their
assignment.
10. Each student will be given a medium sized poster paper and will illustrate to the best of
their ability what theyve learned about water. They will also use words on the poster to
describe what is happening.
11. There will be a space left for students to describe in words the three things they will do
differently in their lives to help keep our water sustainable and not wasted. They will be
reminded that strategic thinking involves a plan set for yourself to help reach a goal.
(Their goal/goals are the three things that they want to change)
12. During science time the next day, students will present their posters to their classmates,
putting emphasis on those three goals, which will be hung around the classroom after
each presentation. They will share their goals and then explain how they used or how
they are going to use Strategic thinking to help them achieve those goals.

RESOURCES
List any references you used to create this lesson. If you borrowed ideas from any lesson
plans please note them here. Use APA format.

WAYS OF THINKING CONNECTION

Provide a complete explanation of how your lesson plan connects to futures, system,
strategic, or values thinking. Define the way of thinking you selected and used in this
lesson plan. Remember, this should be included meaningfully in the lesson plan.

Strategic thinking is being able to develop a strategy or plan to reach a goal set for oneself. The
lesson plan connects well with Strategic thinking because throughout the lesson the students are
learning and describing ways that we can help save water. They first learn about what good water
is and what bad water is, and then their knowledge grows on how to make water sustainable
again. What steps need to be taken to help keep water clean all around us? They have to think of
a plan that is going to lead them to make better choices to not waste water, or contaminate it, no
matter what kind of water it is. At the end of the lesson the students are definitely using strategic
thinking because they are discussing with their class their plans to reach their goals. This would
definitely give them all ideas of the best way to be able to succeed in saving the water.