Sonja Thompson
Pre- Lesson
Lesson's Theme: The Journey of our Water Waste- Social Studies/
Language Art
This lesson can be use for grades 4,5 and 6 Special Needs 12:1
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to follow the journey of the water as it
leaves the toilet/sinks in their home. Student will use the language art skill
of (sequencing) to follow this journey
AIM: How will the use of toilet paper tubes and marbles help us understand
the journey of our waste water toward the final destination of the treatment
plants?
Vocabulary: Convey,combined, treatment, pollution and overflow.
Materials: Paper-towel tubes, marbles and sequence graphic organizer
sheets
PROCEDURE; Teacher will ask whole class " When you take a shower,
brush your teeth, or use the toilet, what do you think happens to the water
once it disappear down the drain? Allow for responses.
Teacher will explain the process in sequence order: (a) Waste water
leaves sinks. (b) Waste water flows into Catch Basin underground (c)
Waste runs off catch basins in to large pipes underground (d) Wasted
water combines other runoff from rain and snow (e) after this combination
90% of the waste travel to the Waste Treatment Plants and (f) there this
combination of all the waste is treated by physically and chemically
removing all the pollutants.
GUIDED PRACTICE: Students will be divided into groups, they will discuss
the process and with hands-on materials put the process in to proper
sequence.
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE: Groups 1 and 2 will make tunnels with
paper-towels tubes. Groups 3 and 4 will draw the tunnels and using the
sequence graphic organizer will put the step in order of flow in order.
Post lesson
Students will use their sequenced-graphic organizers and drawings to
construct a tunnel, and a catchment basin.
Students and teachers will travel to a Water treatment Plant closest to the
school and will observed what happens to the waste once it reach the
plant. All students will use their graphic organizers to record in sequence
what they saw and heard from guides. Groups leaders will be given the
responsibility to record what happen to waste it reaches the plant.
Students will be given writing prompts such as: What happen to the waste
once it completes it journey from the house to the plant?
Teacher will prepare a lesson for the next steps that leads toward the
waste returning back into the water system.