Presenting on Green Transportation

ELA Lesson:

Green Transportation: ELA Unit (Lesson 3 of 3)

5th Grade 65 Minutes

Primary Standards

English Language Arts

SL.PI.5.4

Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

SL.AS.5.6

Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate to task and situation.

SL.UM.5.5

Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

RI.CI.5.2

Determine the central idea of an informational text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

SL.PE.5.1

Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Supporting Standard

Math

5.DL.A.2

Develop strategies to collect, organize, and represent data of various types and from various sources. Communicate results digitally through a data visual (e.g. chart, storyboard, video presentation).

Essential Questions

How can I present information about green transportation using an informational poster?

How can I interpret information from an informational poster?

Learning Outcomes

I can analyze an informational poster.

I can create an informational poster.

I can present an informational poster to an audience.

Agenda

Investigate

Inspire

Inquire

Inquire

≌ 5 Minutes

Solution: Wind Turbines

View this informational poster from ClimateScience.

Share Out

What is the central idea?

What are supporting details for this idea?

What caught your attention when looking at this poster?

Wind turbines make clean, cheap energy, but they do have some negative impacts.

Ex: one negative impact of wind turbines is that they can be noisy

Is there anything you don't like about this poster?

Investigate

≌ 40 Minutes

Create an Informational Poster!

Be sure to include:

The name of the green transportation method

The reason you think this method is best for your community and the environment (using 2 key details)

Data from the pie graphs created previously to support your reasoning

Pictures of the method

How New Jersey could incorporate this green transportation method or an example of this green transportation that you have seen in your community.

How can we use the data we collected to support our reasoning?

Example Data:

Reasoning

I think that buses are the best method of green transportation for our community because 33.3% of people that we interviewed wish that they could use a bus for transportation. More people chose buses as the type of transportation they wish they could use than any other type of transportation.

Inspire

≌ 20 Minutes

During your presentation, remember to:

Present Your Poster!

Make eye contact

Speak loudly and clearly

Be confident! You did a great job!

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