Green Transportation Lesson: Presentations
Lesson Plan
55 minutesGrades3, 4, 5English Language Arts
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Written by Lindsey Pockl, Amber Medina
About this lesson
This lesson features the final advertisement presentations and provides students with the opportunity to think about how to use these projects to make an impact in real life.
Inquire: Students reflect on the advertisement process and their role in their small groups.
Investigate: Students present their final advertisements to their peers.
Inspire: Students brainstorm what to do with their ideas in order to increase metro/public transit ridership in their community.
Inquire: Students reflect on the advertisement process and their role in their small groups.
Investigate: Students present their final advertisements to their peers.
Inspire: Students brainstorm what to do with their ideas in order to increase metro/public transit ridership in their community.
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- Students explore real-world problems through project-based learning.
- Students practice oral presentation skills and practice giving constructive feedback to their peers.
- The Investigate and Inspire sections can be completed on different days or class periods.
- Teachers can build in practice time for students to practice their presentations. Additionally, teachers can highlight specific public speaking skills such as making eye contact, speaking loudly and clearly, and reflective listening.
- Classes can host presentations to other classes or invite families for presentations.
Prerequisites
- This is lesson 6 of 6 in our 3rd-5th grade Green Transportation unit.
- Students should have completed lesson 5 of this unit and their student projects from Lesson 5 before the presentations in this lesson.
- You can review a code of conduct or guidelines for oral presentations prior to this lesson. This can include an introduction on how to be a prepared speaker and active listener.
Differentiation
- Teachers can scaffold reflection questions with sentence frames.
- Teachers can decide on alternative ways to conduct student presentations based on students’ needs.
- Students can explore other metro systems in different countries such as Japan, South Korea, Germany, Singapore, and China. Additionally, students can explore specific cities with well-known public transportation, such as Moscow, London, and Paris.
- Students can look up and evaluate public transportation advertisements in other countries and compare them with ones in the United States. Students can highlight similarities and differences in advertisements, including messages, colors, designs, etc.
- Students can brainstorm and engage in further action projects. Potential action projects for students are listed in the Teacher Slideshow.
From the scientist review
The lesson gives students a chance to reflect on the power of advertisement and ways to engage the public to use the metro as a sustainable green transportation model. The materials used in the lesson have been verified and are accurate. Hence, this lesson is recommended for classroom use.
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About the teacher writers
Lindsey Pockl
Lindsey worked with SubjectToClimate to develop accompanying materials for lesson plans for grades 3-12.
Amber Medina
Elementary School Teacher
Amber is a third grade elementary school teacher who has taught ELA, Environmental Education, and SEL. With a degree in Environmental Policy and Planning, her passion for environmental justice and action integrated curriculum led her to her commitment to climate education.
