Sample Lesson Adapted for Block Schedules

Objectives:

• Dimensions of Learning: The student will determine ways to reduce waste at home and at school.
• Content: The students will plan and present an ecological lunch with zero waste.
• Social skills: The students will work cooperatively in a group of two to plan an ecological lunch with zero waste.

Warm-up: (5 minutes)

Teacher presents overhead transparencies indicating percentage of waste for western civilization (La France, L'Angleterre, L'Allemagne, Les Etats-Unis, Le Canada, La Suisse, La Norvege)

Students try to determine reasons why Canada has the highest record of waste?

Focused Listing: (10 minutes)

Using flip chart paper and markers, students are to generate a list of ways to reduce waste at home and at school.

When completed, place each group's lists on the blackboard and discuss the results with the class.

Cooperative Group Activity:Le Lunch Ecolo (25 minutes)

In pairs students are to create an ecological lunch with zero waste. Each pair needs to provide at least 3 foods, a drink, a dessert, a fruit, utensils, and wrapping.

Cooperative Group Activity Presentations: (20 minutes)

Each group will present their lunch ecolo to the class. Students will rate each lunch using a rating scale provided by the teacher to see which lunch is the most ecological.

Teacher Directed Guided Practice: The verb jeter -- to throw away (15 minutes)

Teacher conjugates the verb jeter in both the present and the past tense. Students will practice conjugating the verb orally and using flashcards. Students will copy the verb in notebooks and complete the worksheet on the verb.

Closure: Journal Entry (10 minutes)

In their journals, students are to list at least three ways in which they can personally reduce waste at home and at school. (The teacher evaluates students' journals at the end of every unit or at an appropriate student-teacher conference for content, grammar, or spelling)

Appraisal:

What went well in your pair? What did not go well?
Praise . . . Question . . . Polish (student behavior)

Evaluation:

Journal entries will be evaluated at the end of the unit.
There will be an informal evaluation of ecological lunch presentation.

Adapted from: G. McConnell, et al. Passage 3. Don Mills, ON: Addison-Wesley, 1995.