Students must understand their responsibilities in protecting the environment by recycling plastic and

other recyclable items. Students will learn their place in the world, should we choose to pollute our
earth and expend our natural resources, we will be forced to look for other resources. However, as RATIONALE
plastic was presented as a convenience and beneficial to the world, students will need to determine if it
is doing more good or damage to our environment.

Economy-students will fully

Students will develop an appreciation and respect  AIMS  understand the system of
for all aspects of our environment. Students will production and distribution and
learn how our actions affect people, creatures consumption
and environments around us

The student knows that Understand the Understand the roles Understand the
organisms have Understand and identify difference between of consumers and concept of imports  GOALS
characteristics that help natural resources found wants and needs producers throughout and exports
them survive and can on Earth various economies
describe patterns, cycles,
systems and relationships
within the environments The student will create The student will be able
Identify and describe The students will be
a flow chart of natural to understand the
the differences able to learn about
resources that importance of recycling
between wants and all forms of plastics to the US export of trash
Identify and describe categorizes them as O
needs by creating a list better the environment to other countries
the flow of energy in a renewable, non of items and the effects to the B
food chain and predict renewable, and
how changes in a food consumer
inexhaustible J
chain affect the
ecosystem such as E
polluting the water C
The students will The student will create The student will be
supply
research natural a budget to determine able to describethe The students will T
resources using the importance of necessary steps explore US imports
Observe and describe wants and needs in towards creating a from other countries I
different medias to
the physical determine uses and their everyday campus wide project and study the deficit V
characteristics of present findings activities on recycling plastics that is being created
environments and E
how they support S
populations and
communities within an
ecosystem