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This lesson teaches 4th grade students about the importance of protecting the ocean and its ecosystems. Students will write a letter to a family member explaining why the ocean needs to be protected and suggesting at least two ways the recipient can help. To assess their understanding, the letter must discuss how humans negatively impact the ocean, why protecting it is important, and one action the person can take. The lesson supports standards about environmental impacts and resource conservation.

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This lesson teaches 4th grade students about the importance of protecting the ocean and its ecosystems. Students will write a letter to a family member explaining why the ocean needs to be protected and suggesting at least two ways the recipient can help. To assess their understanding, the letter must discuss how humans negatively impact the ocean, why protecting it is important, and one action the person can take. The lesson supports standards about environmental impacts and resource conservation.

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Your Name: Mariah Leach


Title of Lesson: Why water matters?
Grade: 4
STANDARDS

 Concept 1: Change in Environments- PO 1.Describe how natural events and human activities have
positive and negative impacts on environments (e.g., fire, floods, pollution, dams).
 Concept 3: Organisms and Environments- PO 4. Describe ways in which resources can be conserved
(e.g., by reducing, reusing, recycling, finding substitutes).

 (3LESSON SUMMARY/OVERVIEW

This lesson helps students recognize the importance in preserving our ocean and the marine ecosystems that live
in it. Students will explain in a letter to a family member the significance in protecting the ocean. They will also
suggest at least two different ways the family member they are writing to can protect the ocean.
OBJECTIVES

 Students will be able to write a paragraph explaining why it is important to protect the ocean and the
marine life in it.
 Students will be able to write a paragraph suggesting at least one way in which the person they are
writing to can help protect the ocean and its ecosystems.

ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION
The students will write a letter to a family member, friend, or someone they know.
The letter must include.

 Why is it important to protect the ocean and its ecosystems?


 At least two way humans are negatively impact the ocean.
 At least one way the person you are writing the letter to can protect the ocean and its ecosystems?

PREREQUISITE KNOWLEDGE
Prior to this lesson, students need to know information about bees and how they benefit us. Students will be
reminded of some of those benefits and time will be given in class for student to help one another remember.
Students may also need to be reminded what is expected of them when writing an essay. Prompts such as how
many sentences should be included in a paragraph, transition words, and organization.
MATERIALS
 Paper
 Pencils
 Graphic organizer with notes from previous days
VOCABULARY/KEY WORDS
 Ecosystems
 Sustainability
 Pollution
 Global Goal 14

TEACHING PROCEDURES
1. Teacher will instruct students to first decided why they will write their letter. This can be a family
member, a friend who is not in the class, or anyone they can send or physically hand the note to.
2. After that the teacher will ask students to pull out their graphic organizers they have been working on
throughout the entire week and use that to help them write their letter.
3. Teacher will display a sample letter so that students can see the format of what a letter should look like
4. Teach will point out how to start a letter (Dear, Person) and how different ways the students can end the
letter (sincerely or thank you, respectfully).
5. Student will then begin writing their letter as the teacher walks around making sure students are working
and answering questions as needed.
6. Once the class has finished there letter they will find a partner and read it to their partner. Then the
teacher will take volunteers to read their letter to the class.
7. After that students will fold their letter and place it in an envelope, close it, and out it in their backpack
to take home.
8. During this lesson, students are using values thinking to explain why it is important to protect the ocean
and what the ocean does for our society.

RESOURCES
Students will be using graphic organizer that they were working on throughout the entire unit.
WAYS OF THINKING CONNECTION

Through the use of values thinking students will learn about how humans are negatively impacting our oceans
and learn about what we can do to help. When looking at ways that we can help they will come across things
such as making sure that we are disposing waste or even having waste, what over fishing is doing to the marine
life, as well as oil spills and more. By looking at the cost of what we are doing to the ocean they will be making
decisions on what they are going to value more. For example, if a student talks about how animals are dying
because they are eating trash in the ocean they will decided either we need to stop throwing away waste or leave
it as is. In this way the student is showing they value the life of animals over a less convient way of throeing
away waste.

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