Last updated: August 25, 2020
Lesson Plan
Good Character, Good Stewards
Download Lesson Plan
6459KB
- Grade Level:
- Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subject:
- Literacy and Language Arts,Science
- Lesson Duration:
- 90 Minutes
- State Standards:
- Virginia Learning Standards
Grades K – 6, depending on the lesson plan. - Additional Standards:
- Next Generation Science Standards
Essential Question
What is our responsibility to care for the world and its resources?
Objective
Focuses on the concept of stewardship and the ideals of the National Park Service to provide relevant educational experiences that involve students and promote an understanding of their responsibility to care for the world and its resources.
Background
This interdisciplinary curriculum supplement for grades K-6 integrates character education with science, math, language arts, and social science lessons for the classroom. The activities focus on the concept of stewardship and the ideals of the National Park Service to provide relevant educational experiences that involve students and promote an understanding of their responsibility to care for the world and its resources. Some lessons require short excursion outside of the classroom, while others require additional reading materials. Each lesson comes with specific details regarding the target grade levels and appropriate Virginia Standards of Learning.
Each lesson begins by identifying the curriculum subject and character traits addressed in the lesson. The suggested Grade level(s) and the relevant Virginia Standards of Learning are listed followed by the approximate length/duration and the materials needed to complete the entire lesson. An overview provides the basic theme and goal of the lesson followed by the objectives for student learning. Background information on the subject matter is provided as well as the suggested vocabulary.
Preparation
Lessons
- Branch Out (grades K-1); pages 7-11
- Save Our Earth (grade 1): pages 12 – 17
- Roly-Polyology 101 (grades 1-4): pages 18 – 23
- Building Respect for the Past, Present and Future (grades 4-5); pages 18 -32
- Interdependence (grade 2); pages 33 – 39
- Watershed Words of Wisdom (grade 4 and 6); grades 40 – 47
- One Solution for Pollution … Machines (grades 3 – 4); pages 48 – 53
- Geology Rocks (grade 5); pages 54 – 64
- A Circle of Service (grades 2 – 4); pages 65 – 71
Evaluation Form
Procedure