Learning Goals
Students will be able to compare before-and-after photos of classrooms, playgrounds, parks, and homes to identify the choice that changed the place.
Students will be able to ask simple questions and make observations about a place people want to keep clean or safe.
Students will be able to use pictures, drawings, and short sentences to document observations about caring choices and their effects.
Students will be able to explain how people’s choices can reduce harm to land, water, air, and living things in local environments.
Students will be able to represent how the needs of plants, animals, and humans connect to the places they live.
Students will be able to communicate a better choice for caring for shared spaces through speaking, gestures, or role-play.
Students will be able to collaborate with peers to create and revise class products that show solutions for keeping places clean, safe, and welcoming.
Products
My Choices Help Places Investigation Notebook
Each student completes a scaffolded notebook with picture-sort pages, before-and-after observations, a simple question about a place, and one sentence or drawing explaining a better choice. The notebook shows the student’s own evidence, thinking, and reflection across the project.
Class Before-and-After Photo Poster Set and Choices Help Places Picture Book
The class creates a shared set of before-and-after posters and a picture book with photos, drawings, and short sentences showing better choices for school, home, playground, and park spaces. The team product synthesizes individual observations into shared solutions and is used for the Riverpark Nature Steward Spotlight.
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