Through grand conversation, help scholars identify issues that harm the Earth and find solutions on how to solve them. After voting—on what your class deems the most important problem—stretch writing muscles with a problem-solution essay detailing how the Earth can be a better place if we take action.

Concepts

human impact on the environment, Problem Solving, solutions, the environment, essay writing, revising writing, prewriting, editing, final drafts

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have a limited number of extra templates copied in case pupils make a mistake and need to start again 
• Allow learners to choose the environmental problem they wish to write about 
• Schedule time in the computer lab, library, or on mobile learning devices to search for environmental solutions

Classroom Considerations

• The plan assumes class members know how to write an essay using the writing process

Pros

• Provides a constructed light bulb example 
• Brings attention to current environmental issues

Cons

• Offers little space for writers to write either in large print or long paragraphs

Common Core

W.1.2 W.1.5 W.2.2 W.2.5 W.3.2.a W.3.5