ETE 335

Elementary Social Studies Lesson

Gardners Multiple Intelligences
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Ashley Roth
Geography/ Affect of human activities
3
rd
Grade
Destruction to our World

ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Goals:
Students will be able to identify and describe how human
activity affects our environment.
Objectives:
Content/Knowledge:
Students will be able to identify ways in which human
activity affects the environment.
Students will be able to then describe what we can do to
help.
Process/Skills:
Students will be able to list affects and what activity it is
associated with. Students will then draw and describe in 2
sentences what they can do to help.
Values/Dispositions:
Students will be able to learn how their everyday activities
affect the environment.
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Rationale:
This is an important lesson because students need to
understand how human activity affects the environment
(depending on the geography of the place) and how we can
help.
Standards State Illinois Common Core or
Learning Standards
STATE GOAL 17: Understand world geography and the
effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the
United States.
17.C.2c Explain how human activity affects the
environment.
National NCSS Themes
People/places/environment
individual/groups/institutions

Logical/Mathematical
Logical/Mathematical
In this activity students will be grouped in 4.
The students will then be give a handful of
different affects on the environment-along
with a number. The students will practice
identifying what the problem is and then
multiplying the numbers of similar cards
together. This allows students to practice their
math while learning how we affect the
environment.
Materials:
Flash cards- provided by the teacher
Scrap paper
Pencil
Verbal/Linguistic
Verbal/Linguistic
In this activity students will be paired up.
Each pair will choose from the list a human
activity and then have to research what the
affects are. The students will then create a
small poster. Once all students are done each
pair will present-verbal and then ask the class
as a whole of they agree and why.
Materials:
-Small poster
-Colored pencils or markers
Musical/Rhythmic
Musical/Rhythmic
In this activity the teacher will write down
different activities in a hat. She will go around
and let each table choose 1. After each table
has an activity they will have to create a rap or
song (1 min at max) about the human activity
and what the affects are- not mentioning in the
rap the specific activity. The groups will all
then present and explain why their activity
had certain affects and the class will guess
their activity.
Material:
-Hat with slips of paper
-Scrap paper for rap/song
Visual/Spatial
Visual/Spatial
In this activity students will be creating their
own map of where 3 human activities occur
and the affect on the environment. (example: a
car- pollution in the air). The students will
draw the human activity on the map and then
write a sentence below it.
Materials:
-Scrap paper
-Pencils
-List of 20 different human activities
-colored pencils/markers
Body/Kinesthetic
Body/Kinesthetic
In this activity students will be creating skits,
but without saying the human activity name.
Each group will act out, and describe their
human activity as well as the affect it has on
the environment. (Example: and oil spill,
picking up the beach, and cleaning off
animals. Affect-hurts animals, kills wildlife and
pollutes the water.) After each skit the groups
will be given time discuss what they think the
human activity is.
Materials:
-Paper-for skit
-Pencil
Interpersonal
Interpersonal
In this activity students will create their own
projects, regarding any human activity. Each
student must create a picture/drawing or
experiment to analyze their human activity.
Students must write a follow up paper stating
the human activity they chose, how it affects
the environment andwhat we can do as
citizens to help. Materials: paper, pencil,
computers to research, colored pencils and
markers.
Intrapersonal
Intrapersonal
In this activity students will write a reflective
journal entry, responding to a question
prompted by the teacher. What human
activities hurt the environment and why.
Each student will choose ONE human activity
and write 2 sentences why. The student will
also reflect on how they can change their
actions to help preserve the environment.
Materials:
-Writing notebooks
-Pencil/Pen
Naturalistic
Naturalistic
In this activity students will take a field trip to
a recycling plant. This will give the students
an idea on how to recycle, what to recycle,
why to recycle and the effects of not recycling
on our environment. The students can also
partake in any community service that helps
cleaning up the environment to make it a
better place. (The hyperlink above is an
example of how a school can get students
involved and educated about recycling.)
http://www.epa.gov/students/communityservice.html
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardners Multiple Intelligences
Visual Learning and Assessment:
Visual Learning, Assessment, and Online Resources:
Visual Learning:
NOTE: Be sure to include one image that is germane
to the focus of your lesson on each of the 8 lesson
activity PowerPoint slides.
Assessment:
I will assess the students based on their collaboration
with others and how well they are able to explain
how a human activity affects the environment.

Online Resources:
https://delicious.com/ashleynicole21