#21 Fourth Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / volunteering / Grade 5

Overall Objective:  At the end of the lesson students will develop awareness of volunteering. They will use language, related to cleaning up trash and participate in imaginary cleaning up of the environment.

Language Objective:  Students will use and practice the vocabulary connected with cleaning up and Ecology.

Civic Education Objectives:  Students will think of the diversity of thrown away things we used day after day. They will answer the questions: What does the trash consist of? What do people do on Earth day?

Curriculum Connection: Language and cultural skills developed during the lesson are outlined in the Georgian English Language Curriculum.

Class Context and Needs: 5th graders; there are 31 students in the class. There are not any disabled students or students with special needs.

Materials: Handouts, blackboard and chalk big plastic bags for trash, different kinds of trash brought into the classroom by students.

Activities: reading for comprehension speaking activities.

Assessment: Teacher gives formal assessment according to rubric with certain criteria and politics.

Overall Objective: At the end of the lesson students will develop awareness of volunteering. They will use language, related to cleaning up trash and participate in imaginary cleaning up of the environment. Language Objective: Students will use and practice the vocabulary connected with cleaning up and Ecology like: trash, paper, empty bottle, broken glass, remaining of the fire, empty tin, used up tub, plastic bag, garbage, leather, wooden, rubber, metal, worn out, spoiled, torn, tube, packet, carton, jar, volunteer, pollution, environment, ashes, a can from fish, bottles, garbage, etc. Civic Education Objectives: Students will think of the diversity of thrown away things we used day after day. They will answer the questions: What does the trash consist of? What do people do on Earth day?
Stage of Lesson	Activity	Time
Activity 1	Teacher gives Sts handouts (A and B) with the picture about an excursion to the bank of the river in the country. Sts look at the picture. They see that the area in the picture is full of trash: paper, empty bottles, broken glass, remaining of the fire, empty tins, used up tubs, plastic bags, cut down trees and other garbage. Students can’t find some clean area where they can stay for rest and try to solute the problem -polluted area on the river bank. They answer the question:”What should they do with the trash they see around?” Sts answer teacher’s the questions about the pictures A and B. Finally they think of cleaning the environment before having rest in the nature.	10 min.
Activity 2	Sts work in pairs. They write phrases of the garbage people usually see in the polluted area. They make phrases using words from pictures A and B describing different materials that things are made of like: plastic, wooden, leather, rubber, paper, glass, metal, cloth, used up, worn out, spoiled, torn, broken, bag, bottle, tin, can, jar, packet, carton, plate, fruit, vegetables, fish, sausage, potatoes, T-shirt, tube, food, notebook, magazine, etc.	10 min.
Activity 3	Teacher asks students to speak to one another, to name the trash they bring to the class and put it into the different bags with labels “paper”, “plastic”, “glass”, “wood”, “metal”, etc.  Sts put the trash into the appropriate bag.	10 min.
Activity 4	Teacher gives students another handouts with the text about pollution of the environment, ecology and volunteering.	10 min.
Assessment	Sts do the “true or false” exercise that shows the assessment of the text they have read and the means of volunteering.	5   min.

Speaking exercises. (Activity 1)

Answer the questions.

   1.   Where did the students go?    - on an excursion

   2.   Where did they come?  -to the river

   3.    What did they want?   -  to spend a day in the country/

on the bank of the river

   4.    What did they see on the bank of the river? - lots of trash/ polluted area

   5.    Could they find a clean place to stay? - No.

   6.    What did they do to clean up the environment?- collected the trash / garbage

   7.    What did they collect on the field? broken glass, plastic bags, paper packets, used up tins, torn newspapers, broken tree branches, empty bottles, ashes of the fire, spoiled food, empty cans, etc.

   8.    Did they like that activity? Yes. / No.

   9.    But, still, did they do that?  Yes.

   10.  Did they have a good day after that?  Yes.

   11.   Did they collect the trash at the end of the day, before they left back home?  Yes. / No.

Text

Last Saturday students went on an excursion to the bank of the river. They wanted to spend a day near the water:  swim, play football and basketball, relax and rest.

There were lots of people already. They couldn’t find a place near the river. Finally they found one... but it was full of trash. There were empty bottles, used up tins, torn paper, plastic bags, broken tree branches, ashes of the fire and others.

What should they do with the trash they see around? Could they clean the place?

They had to pick up the trash. Only then they could please themselves and have fun.  They spent the whole day there swimming, playing, eating and enjoying themselves.

At the end of the day, before going home, students collected all the trash from the field. They put it into the garbage can on their way home.

Clean up activities.

A hundred years ago,the words ecology and “pollution of the environment”were not words that everybody used. They began to be used thirty or forty years ago. People realized that, by their activities, they were changing nature. They were changing the delicate balance between all living things.

Now, we have understood that if we don’t pay attention to ecology and pollution, our earth wouldn’t be a safe place for our children to live. Pollution does harm to plants, animals and people.

Why do people throw things away?

If our shoes are worn out, and they can’t be repaired, we throw them away. If we buy our yogurt in a plastic tub, when the tub is empty we throw it away. When the toothpaste in the tube is used up, we throw the tube away.When our clothes are worn out we throw them away, too. And we might throw away a notebook because it is full and we can’t use it any more. All these things are rubbish, or garbage or waste or trash. Everything people don’t need any more, they throw away sometimes in the area near the rivers or in the country.

In the USA millions of people take part in Earth Day activities every year. The Earth Day is held on April 22 or around it, the weekend before or after the official day.

On Earth Day many people joined the clean-up activities. They went to the area and collect trash, from bottles to pieces of cars. People who do all these clean-up activities are volunteers. Volunteers do everything freely, not for money or for fame.

True or false?

    1.   People don’t pollute the environment.

    2.   Polluting of the environment is making nature dirty.

    3.   The Earth day is held on the 22^nd of June.

    4.   People who do cleaning up activities are volunteers.

    5.   People understand the danger to the Earth.

Pollution is harmful for everybody.

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