LESSON PLAN #3

LETS REUSE WHAT WE USE TO HELP OUR ENVIRONMENT!

Topic: Reusing

Subject: Grade Time: one hour and 30 minutes.

English : 6th

Research Question:
The purpose of this research project is to know, what is the impact of using
figures of speech found in short poems about the preservation of the
environment, to enhance the interest of sixth grade students of the Real
Escandinavo School, not only to learn English, but also to take care of the natural
resources?
Objectives:
1. To identify the importance of reusing.
2. To use acrostic poems (rhyme and alliteration poems) to express feelings
and thoughts about re-using.
Materials:

Images of items that we can reuse.

Lets re use paper acrostic poem.
reuse acrostic poem
Acrostic poem Worksheet.
Bird feeders images.
Peanut butter.
Bird seeds.
Toilet paper tubes.
Laces.
Scissors

Class arrangements
- Whole class (WCL)
- Pair work (PW)
- Individual work (IND)

Procedure
1. Reviewing and Eliciting
The teacher will ask the students
about the previous class, What they
did, and will check on their
homework by asking these
question:
Did you tell a friend about
reducing?
What did you tell him/her?
For assessing about the new topic (reusing) the teacher will ask students if
they know what reusing is.

Time

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Material

8
minute
WC
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The board

2. Warm up
The teacher will present different
images of the different items that we
have at home and we can reuse. ( see
attachment # 3.1)
The teacher will tell students to work in
pairs and think about other ideas for
reusing the items on the board. The
teacher will go over some of the ideas
the students have.
3. Vocabulary
With the help of the images of the
different items that we can use to
reuse (see attachment #3.1), the
teacher will introduce the new
vocabulary by the matching the items
images to their names.
4. Reading

10
IND
minute
s

5
WC
minute L
s

The teacher will show students a

poster with the acrostic Reuse (see 5
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attachment # 3.3) The teacher will ask minute L
students if they know what an acrostic s
poem is, she will read the poem and
ask students to read it with her. This
will be done two times so they can
catch the pronunciation and rhyme.
The teacher will tell students that they
are going to read another acrostic
PW
poem about an item they can reuse
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(Paper).
Lets reuse paper (see
attachment # 3.4) The teacher will
minute
read the poem and then will give out
s
the poem on paper that the teacher
reused. The students must walk
around the room reading the poem to
each other. The teacher walks around
checking on their work.
After reading the poem to each other,
the teacher encourages students to
write a short acrostic poem about
Birds. The teacher will have some
PW
10
words on the board that start with the
minute
letters B I R D. These words will be bird
s
adjectives and words about nature.
The teacher will go over the words with
the students, and will tell them to
choose the word they want from the
WC
board to write their own acrostic on

Set of images of
items that we can
reuse.

The board.
Images on the
board.

Poster with the

poem reuse

poem Lets reuse

paper

Board.
Acrostic poem
Worksheet.

Acrostic poem
Worksheet.

the worksheet the teacher will give

them. ( see attachment # 3.5)

The teacher will ask students to 5

exchange acrostics with their partners
minute
and read them to each other.
The teacher will encourage some s
students to read their acrostic poems
to the whole class. The teacher will
pick up the acrostics.
5. Task
The teacher explains to the students 5
that for the task they are going to minute
WC
create a bird feeder craft. She will s.
L
explain them what is that by showing
them some pictures. (see attachment
#3.6) She will also explain them the
purpose of the task and how important
is to take care of animals.

Bird feeders images.

Peanut butter.
Bird seeds.
Toilet paper tubes.
Laces.
Scissors

The teacher will tell students that for

this activity, they are going to use the
half of toilet paper tubes, some peanut
butter and some bird seeds. Each
student will work individually. The
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teacher will have some peanut butter
minute IND
jars and laces. The teacher will ask
s
WC
students to put some peanut butter on
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the toilet paper tubes, then each
student must roll the tubes on some
bird seeds and finally they will tie a
lace on the tube so that they can hang
them on the trees.
The students will choose the most eyecatching bird feeders.
When students are done, the teacher
will ask students to hang the bird
feeders on some trees around the
school.
6. Closure
The teacher will ask students some
questions to assess the class.
What did you learn today?
What can you find in your house
that you can reuse?
Can you think in a different way
to make a bird feeder? What

Board

other things can you re use?

The teacher will give them homework
Homework:
Talk to a family member about recycle,
reduce and reuse

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s