ELA Lesson: Presenting on Green Transportation
Lesson Plan
1 hour 5 minutesGrades5English Language Arts
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Written by Christa Delaney, Sustainable Jersey for Schools
About this lesson
Students create and present an informational poster on the method of green transportation that they think is best for their community and the environment.
Inquire: Students analyze an informational poster, identifying the central idea and key details.
Investigate: Students create an informational poster on a method of green transportation that showcases the data from the pie charts they created in the previous lesson.
Inspire: Students present their informational poster to an audience.
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Suggestions
- This lesson gives students a voice and can be taught during a unit on presentation skills or supporting a central idea with key details.
- The Investigate and Inspire sections should be done on separate days and could be spread over several days to include practice and presentation.
- This lesson can be used to reinforce the skills of how to present to an audience and include elements of visual display and design.
- This lesson can be used during Earth Month and taught in conjunction with mathematics.
- A rubric for the informational posters is included in the Accompanying Materials.
- For further guidance on implementing the full unit, teachers can review the unit plan.
Prerequisites
- This is lesson 3 of 3 in our 5th grade Green Transportation ELA Unit.
- Students should have a basic understanding of how to make a poster.
- Teachers can find an audience for students to present to, besides the class. This could be at a board meeting, staff meeting, or an audience of family members.
Differentiation
- Students could use various art or design techniques and skills to create their posters.
- Students could present their posters to another class, a school club, or other audience.
- Students could design animations to go along with their presentations.
- Students could record a part of their presentation as a social media post for a class, club, PTA, or school account.
- Students can be strategically paired for presentations. For example, teacher may wish to pair a student with stronger art skills with a student who is more confident speaking to an audience.
- Students can display their posters and host a gallery walk for other classes or younger students.
- Students could plan a day to bike or walk to school.
From the scientist review
This lesson allows students to gain knowledge of how to explain key concepts in green transportation, as well as how to design and deliver educational posters on the subject to a variety of audiences and stakeholders in New Jersey. After reviewing the lesson, we concluded that it met our requirements for scientific credibility.
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About the teacher writers
Christa Delaney
Christa Delaney holds a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Studies and Teacher Education from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and a Professional Science Master's in Environmental Studies and Sustainability from Unity College. She has been teaching since 2005 and has 21 years of experience teaching Advanced Placement Environmental Science to grades 11–12. Christa is certified to teach Biological Science and specializes in environmental science and sustainability education.
Sustainable Jersey for Schools
Sustainable Jersey is a network and movement of municipalities, schools and school districts working collectively to bring about a sustainable New Jersey. Acting with state agencies, non-profit organizations, foundations, academia and industry, Sustainable Jersey researches best practices for what communities could and should do to contribute to a sustainable future.
