People and Environment

4th Grade SCIENCE – The Effects of People to the Environment
Chapter: 5 Page: 148 (Turkish Educational System)

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Materials for the lesson

No materials are needed

Layout of the classroom

An empty classroom is required for the warm up. Students walk in the classroom in pairs.

Phase 1

Students are required to be pairs as ‘A and B ‘.Teacher says ‘imagine the classroom as a forest near lake Abant. You are one of the best forests in Turkey. There are beech, fir and yellow pine trees around you. ’A’ students will close their eyes and’ B’ students will take them for a walk in the forest. They will tell the things they see, they hear, they smell and they touch to the students whose eyes are closed. After a while A students will open their eyes. Then B students will close their eyes and they will go on their walking in the forest. At the end of walking, students will be asked what they have lived, how they have felt and everybody will listen different experiences all together

Phase 2

The classroom is separated into two groups. Teacher tells some ambiances. Both groups will form a photograph showing these ambiances at the same time. The group that finishes photographing first will be applauded. At the end of the game the winner will be announced by looking the number of their acting performances. The ambiances are these;

-Create the people living in shantytown of the city

-The people waiting for filling water to their water bearers nearby Street fountain

-the industrial organizations  and people by the sea

-the working hours of factories that throw their waste to rivers

-the people running in the forest, listening loud music and have barbecues

The shepherds grassing down their animals, etc.

Phase 3

The classroom is separated into 3 groups. Groups are named ‘The results of excessively and unplanned urbanization’ ‘The harms of setting wrong settlements of industrial organizations’ and ‘the effects of forest destruction to the environment’ Each group will be asked to make a fiction which will be acted using body language and thinking the effects of people to the environment. Teacher will give opportunity to groups to talk and make plans with each other. If needed teacher will walk around and give clues.

The students will act the fictions they have created to other groups. When every group finishes their performance, the groups who don’t perform a fiction make comments on what they watch and they are required to find the relationship between the performance and the effects of people to the environment

Phase 4

The classroom is separated into 3 new groups. They are named:

-The people living in the shantytown of the city

-ındustrial organisation and people nearby the sea

-the shepherds grassing down their animals in the forest

These groups are asked ‘which positive behaviours make these people not behave negatively, what they should do to achieve this, how they should live’ Groups will think about these questions, edit and act it out. While acting they will focus on positive behaviours and choose the clear expressions in their verbal expression. Students will be given enough time for preparation. After preparations students’ positive acting will be watched about environment and the comments will be listened done by other groups.

Phase 5

The performances of groups are discussed by all students in class. Students are required to complete what should be done to avoid the results of destroying forests, the negative effects of industrial organizations, excessive urbanization and unplanned constructions. What have been lived during all these performances  and formations are stated by the help of the questions below:

-how much were the emotions, attitudes and psychological status reflecting the reality?

-Did the groups perform the characters they were given to them or the characters that they believed themselves

-Did the groups talk much?

-Did the groups use body language?

-Did the groups use their creation authority well?

Did the groups use the time efficiently until the sign of the teacher?