Transcript B5U10 Stopping Global Warming: You Can Make a Difference

B5U10 Stopping Global
Warming: You Can Make a
Difference
Period One
Farewell
What does the last polar bear remind
you of?
News Headline
Watch the video.
Give each piece of news a
corresponding headline.
What do these news reports have in
common?
Worksheet 1
Related Terms
Climate Change Terms
Prefix: eExamples: emit, evaporate, expand,
extend, etc.
Worksheet 2
Global Climate Change
Discuss with group members and fill out
the first two columns of the KWL Chart.
Worksheet 3
Watch the video.
Find out what is mentioned in the video.
Fill out the third column of the KWL chart.
Share the third part with other groups.
What topics are covered
in the video?
Climate change
Global warming
Human activities
Greenhouse gases
Natural disasters
Greenhouse effects
Extreme weather
Find out the cause and
conditions
effect of the above.
Human
activities
Natural
disasters
Extreme
weather
conditions
Greenhouse
gases
Greenhouse
effects
Climate
change
Global
warming
Task: Reduction of Carbon
Emissions
Calculate your annual carbon
emissions by using carbon footprint
calculator.
Task: Design your own plan to cut
down on carbon emissions.
Worksheet 4
Worksheet 5
Polar bear video
How to write an informal letter*
Write an apology letter to the polar
bear. Worksheet 6
Periods Two & Three
Guess from the title: Stopping Global
Warming: You Can Make a Difference.
What topics will be covered in the reading?
Each group discusses one paragraph of the
reading based on Worksheet 7.
The discussion of the first paragraph will be
done by the teacher and then each group
take turns presenting their discussion
results.
Graphic Organizers
Each group discusses the graphic
organizers of the reading. Worksheet 8.
Two groups will have to draw their think
map on the blackboard.
Pattern 1
S + V..., one/both/some/all of
which/whom...
Watch the ppt about relative clause
and do the quiz in the ppt.
Pattern 2: instead of
People can use public transportation rather than
cars or motorcycles.
-->People can use public transportation instead of
cars or motorcycle.
Matt decided to stay at home and study rather
than go out shopping.
-->Matt decided to stay at home and study
instead of going out shopping.
Worksheet 9
Pattern Practice
Global warming has
deprived the natural
habitats of polar
bears, many of
which are now
drifting on ice.
To fish, polar bears
have to jump into the
ocean instead of
digging a hole on a
big ice sheet.
Pattern Practice
..., part of which...
instead of
Pattern Practice
...both of whom
instead of
Pattern Practice
...some of which...
instead of
Pattern Practice
..., all of which
instead of
Period Four
Listen to the CD of the reading.
Talk about the causes of global
warming.
Silent Spring
Read A Fable for Tomorrow.
Answer Questions for Discussion.
Worksheet 10
Each group discusses A Fable for
Tomorrow by using Literature Circles
Worksheet 11.
Compare and Contrast the reading
and A Fable for Tomorrow Worksheet
12.
What do you feel you can do as a
citizen to become part of a solution
to the issues raised by A Fable for
Tomorrow and this lesson?