Environmental Issues, Problems in the Community & How to help (Cambridge Stage 5, Unit 1 - Lesson 3)

A full lesson teaching about environmental issues such as deforestation and what people are doing to help these issues (sponsorships, raise awareness, community campaigns). The independent activity is to design a project (sponsored activity, community scheme etc.) to help a chosen issue affecting the environment or the local community.

The presentation includes:

√ Learning objective
√ Four success criteria
√ Starter activity designed to engage and help children learn key vocabulary
√ Present perfect tense review activity plus answer slide
√ Input slide with link to Youtube video of poem as an engaging introduction to the issue
√ Mini Plenary - Multiple choice quiz questions to check understanding
√ All answer slides
√ Reflection questions - speaking and listening activity
√ Reading activity about what people around the world are doing to help issues that they are concerned about.
√ Consolidation activities (multiple choice questions)
√ Writing task - design own project for helping an issue I am interested in
√ Extension - Introduction to some adjectives and their associated prepositions (e.g. worried about, interested in etc.)
√ Plenary - Memory game

LO: TO ANALYSE PROBLEMS IN OUR ENVIRONMENT

Success Criteria:
I can describe problems that our environment is experiencing.
I can analyse the current and future effects of such problems.
I can read about what others are doing to help issues they are interested in.
I can design my own project.

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.