Lesson Plan of Sources and Kinds of Pollution

General Science Grade V

Students’ Learning Outcomes

 Define pollution.
 Describe different kinds of pollution.
 Explain main causes of water, air and land pollution.

Information for Teachers

 Any change in the environment which may be harmful to living things is known as environmental
pollution or simply “pollution”
 Pollution may be caused by natural changes like floods, earthquakes, volcanoes.
 The basic kinds of pollution are water pollution, air pollution and land pollution.
 The main causes of water pollution are dirty and toxic water of industries and waste water from
home. Pesticides mixed with water can also cause water pollution.
 The main causes of land pollution are sewage and waste dumping; the mishandling of solid
waste (garbage); cutting down trees; pesticides and use of other chemicals.

Material / Resources
Pictures of land, water and air pollution and textbook

Worm up Activity
Explain the concept of land, water and air pollution by simple activities:

 Take a paper, cut out into different pieces and spread throughout the classroom then ask the
students:
-----How do you see now the environment of the classroom?(Expected answer: Dirty)
  Take two types of water (clean and dirty) into two different glasses. Ask students:
------Which water would you like to drink?
------Let the students explain why?
 Now mix one type of water into the other.
------Would you like to drink this water (Expected answer: No)
 Burn match stick in classroom and allow its smoke to spread in the surrounding. Ask students
how do they feel?
 Ask student: what have they observed in these activities?
 After the students’ respons: Introduce the today’s topic and write on the board.

Pollution

Air pollution Water pollution Land pollution

Development

Activity 1
 Show students the following pictures of air, land and water pollution and ask them which kind of
pollution has been shown in pictures.
 Car exhaust with smoke.
 Dustbin with waste spread out.
 Dirty water flowing out of a factory.
 Heap of plastic bags.
 Dying fish in a polluted pound.

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 Make the following table on board. Write the students responses underneath the appropriate
section in the table.
Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5
Types of
pollution
causes
Activity 2
Indicate the type of pollution caused by the following activities.
 Activity Types of pollution
A man’s car engine is not perfect and it emits smoke when the
car is driven. He changes the oil of the car himself and discards
the used oil in the backyard.
A factory owner throws all of the factory’s waste water in the
main sewage of the colony.
In the month of December, a family burns wood to get heat. The
family throws the ashes into their house sanitary.
A restaurant owner wants an unobstructed view of the
restaurant. So he cuts down all the trees that were growing in
front of restaurant.

Sum up / Conclusion
 Any change in the environment which may be harmful to living things is known as pollution.
 There are different kinds of pollution: water, air and land pollution.
 The main causes of water pollution are dirty and toxic water from industries and used water
from home.
 The causes of air pollution include: the burning trash (plastic), the poisonous smoke and gases
emitted from vehicles and factories and cutting of trees.
 The main causes of land pollution are: throwing waste from houses, schools, and offices outside
waste bins, by throwing plastic bags unnecessarily all over the place, cutting down of trees and
by pesticides from farms.

Assessment
Ask the students to answer the following question:

 What is pollution?
 What are the three types of pollution? Name one example of each.
 How is sea water being polluted?
 How can students contribute towards cleaning the environment?
 What will happen if dead body of a cat remained in the open for a few days?
 Write what do you know about pollution in your school environment? Identify one place where
they have seen land pollution in the environment.
 Involve the students in solving the questions given at the end of chapter / unit in textbook.
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 Follow up
 Ask students to complete the following task:
--Collect their garbage for three days (Tell them that garbage is anything they discard or
Throw away.
--Make a combined list of the garbage that they have collected in three days.
--Ask students to make two columns on chart paper. Label the two columns as (1) items collected
and (2) how it can possibly be disposed. Also list possible methods by which this garbage could
have been disposed.