1. Making an Environmental Impact, Day by Day

2. Objective Students will demonstrate their understanding of how individual actions can make a great impact upon the health of the environment by creating ten PowerPoint slides which persuade the viewer to adopt ten actions that will positively impact the environment.

3. Standard 3.3.4 Create products that apply to authentic, real-world contexts.

4. Vocabulary Impact Positive impact Negative impact UK

5. Rubric 40 The content is displayed in PowerPoint.YesNo There are ten slides.YesNo Each slide advocates for a desired action that would positively impact the environment. YesNo There is a positive consequence associated with each positive action. YesNo Errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar are minimized. YesNo The slides are emailed to the instructor.YesNo Office 365 is used to email slides to the instructor. YesNo

6. Hook One day you will run your own household. You will be a consumer. Eventually, everything you buy and use has to be discarded. Be careful what you buy! You will throw away 100% of everything you buy! How will your environment look when you discard these items?

8. Resource: http://www.recycling- guide.org.uk/

9. HINTS FOR SUCCESS ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE The good things that happen (consequences) when we take these actions.

10. SAMPLE SLIDES

11. Do not throw out glass bottles and jars. Recycle them on recycling day. You should do this because glass can be melted down and made into new bottles and jars, over and over again! Melting and reforming bottles is cheaper than making bottles from scratch, and that keeps prices down when you buy stuff that is in bottles.

12. Do not throw out soda cans. Recycle them on recycling day. Aluminum cans are washed, melted down, and re-formed into sheets of aluminum, which allows new cans to be made. This is much cheaper than digging new aluminum from the ground. Besides, who wants to dig up a forest to get aluminum?