Wed Lesson Plan
Wed Lesson Plan
Wed Lesson Plan
INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION
NAME
Geography
SCHOOL
CLASS
Reception
DATE
LESSON
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Glen Osmond PS
4 - 5 June 2015
TIME
10.00AM 10.30AM
World Environment Day (WED) is a United Nations initiative, aimed at encouraging global
RATIONALE
CONTENT
Students are introduced to the concept of environment through the exploration of the natural
DESCRIPTION
and built environment of their own and other places, by finding out about the environmental
(AUSTRALIAN
resources they use and where these come from, and by recognising that weather varies from
CURRICULUM)
place to place.
The students will:
LESSON
OBJECTIVES
ASSESSMENT
Whiteboard.
RESOURCES
LESSON OUTLINE
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Introduce the idea of World Environment Day (WED). As a class, discuss the importance of looking after
the environment and ways that students help care for the environment.
Encourage students to recall the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) write them up on the whiteboard.
With students sitting in a circle, place waste bins and food scrap cut outs on the floor and demonstrate
determining which bin a piece of rubbish goes into.
Hand out cut outs (1 per student) and ask students to think-pair-share with the person next to them,
which bin they would put their piece of rubbish in and why.
Go around the circle and ask each student to put his or her piece of rubbish in a bin and state why they
chose that particular bin.
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Students to gather together on the floor in preparation for the following lesson.