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Recognize ways that people can help improve the environment, such as cleaning up trash.
Access Point #: SC.4.L.17.Su.3
Access Point Standards

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  • SC.4.L.17.4: Recognize ways plants and animals, including humans, can impact the environment.
Access Point Information
Number:
SC.4.L.17.Su.3
Category:
Supported
Date Adopted or Revised:
02/08
Big Idea:
Interdependence

A. Plants and animals, including humans, interact with and depend upon each other and their environment to satisfy their basic needs.

B. Both human activities and natural events can have major impacts on the environment.

C. Energy flows from the sun through producers to consumers.

Access Point Courses
Access Point Resources
Presentation/Slideshow
  • Recycle:This is an easy-to- read accessible book that can be downloaded as a slide show to be used with Power Point, Impress, or Flash format. It can be speech enabled, and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the Intellikeys keyboard with a custom overlay, and 1-3 switches. For students with visual impairments, the font and background colors can be modified as well.

Unit/Lesson Sequence
  • Pollution:In this lesson students will learn about pollution and its effects. They will learn in depth about pesticides and see its harmful effects that they might not have realized at first. The students will simulate a landfill and see what objects will decompose and which objects won't. They will create their own solutions to an oil spill and test to see which solution is the most effective. The students will observe the effects oil has on water birds. Through this they will determine the long term damage done by an oil spill.