ELA Unit: Impact on Biomes (Lesson 3 of 3)

Second Grade ≅55 minutes

Perspective Lesson:

Wind Turbines

Primary Standards

RL.CR.2.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a literary text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

RL.IT.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges using key details within a text.

SL.PE.2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

SL.PI.2.4 Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

SL.AS.2.6 Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

W.AW.2.1 With prompts and support, write opinion pieces to present an idea with reasons or information.

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English Language Arts

Supporting Standards

6.1.2.CivicsPI.4: Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.

6.1.2.CivicsPD.1: Engage in discussions effectively by asking questions, considering facts, listening to the ideas of others, and sharing opinions.

Social Studies

Essential Questions

How can people work together to make good decisions for their communities?

How can communities decide what to do about big problems like climate change?

I can describe places that are able to make energy from the wind.

Learning Outcomes

I can make connections between wind energy and reducing

climate change.

I can understand different perspectives about wind turbines.

I can participate in a role-play.

I can talk about the pros and cons of wind turbines from different viewpoints.

Agenda

Inquire

Investigate

Inspire

Inquire

≅5 minutes

Think > Pair > Share

Have you heard of a wind turbine?

What have you heard?

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What Do We Know?

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What Do We Want to Know?

Investigate

≅25 minutes

How A Wind Turbine Works

Why are wind turbines important?

Where are

wind turbines

in New Jersey?

Atlantic Ocean

Story Time!

Think > Pair > Share

How does the wind turbine help

William's community in the story?

Wind Turbines

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Positives

Negatives

Inspire

≅25 minutes

Town Role Play!

You will be a mayor, homeowner, or engineer.

Read the three questions about your role.

Work as a group to put your ideas into sentences. Draw a picture.

Let’s Share

One person in your group holds the paper for the class to see.

One person in your group reads your sentences to the class.

One person describes the group’s picture to the class.

Let’s Share

What similarities did you notice about each of the three different perspectives?

What differences did you notice about each of the three different perspectives?

Which perspective do you feel closest to? Why?

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