Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze campus litter and waste patterns to identify how human actions affect Earth’s resources and environment.
Students will be able to obtain and combine information about recycling, composting, and food-waste systems to explain how communities protect natural resources.
Students will be able to evaluate evidence from assemblies, videos, research texts, and field observations to judge which solutions best reduce litter and waste.
Students will be able to construct a persuasive claim about a school environmental problem using evidence, reasoning, and accurate science vocabulary.
Students will be able to explain how recycling and composting reduce waste and support healthier Earth systems for future generations.
Students will be able to respond to a counterargument about litter or waste solutions with a fair, evidence-based rebuttal.
Students will be able to collaborate to design and defend a schoolwide cleanup or behavior-change proposal for a real audience.
Products
Individual Evidence Log and Persuasive Science Argument
Each student creates an evidence log with source credibility notes, then writes or records a CER-style argument about one school litter or waste problem. The product must include a clear claim, supporting evidence, reasoning, one counterargument, and a rebuttal.
Bilingual Earth Day Action Symposium and School Change Proposal
Teams present a public defense of their proposed solution for reducing litter and waste at school, using each member’s individual evidence to support the group claim. The symposium includes a synthesis of the strongest evidence, response to questions, and a concrete plan for action in English and Spanish.
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