Classroom Resource

Waste Not, Want Not Digital Game | Martha Speaks

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

K, 5

Overview

In this Martha Speaks interactive story, students explore the benefits of sorting waste in order to help the environment. Students learn about how recycling and composting work. When used as a part of Martha’s True Stories Buddies Program, buddy pairs engage with the interactive story, then talk and write as they create their own Earth Pledge about how they will help protect the earth. To familiarize yourself with the program, begin by reading the Martha's True Stories Buddies Program: Overview.

Content Standards

Science (2015) Grade(s): KG

SC15.K.6
Identify and plan possible solutions (e.g., reducing, reusing, recycling) to lessen the human impact on the local environment.*

Unpacked Content

Vocabulary

Identify
Plan
Solution
Human impact
Local
Environment
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Causes
Create
Ask
Imagine
Improve

Knowledge

Students know:

Human impact can have both positive and negative impact on the environment.
We can create possible solutions to reduce the negative impacts on the environment.

Skills

Students are able to:

Identify possible solutions to lessen human impact on the environment.
Plan possible solutions to lessen human impact on the environment.

Understanding

Students understand that:

Human impact has a positive and negative effect on the local environment.
There are solutions that can lessen the negative impacts on a local environment.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts

Cause and Effect

Science (2015) Grade(s): 5

SC15.5.16
Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment (e.g., terracing land to prevent soil erosion, utilizing no-till farming to improve soil fertility, regulating emissions from factories and automobiles to reduce air pollution, recycling to reduce overuse of landfill areas).

Unpacked Content

Vocabulary

Natural Resource
Scientific idea
Individual
Community
Terracing
Erosion
Soil
No-till farming
Fertility
Emissions
Pollution
Recycling
Landfill

Knowledge

Students know:

Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life can have major effects, both positive and negative, on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space.
Individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments.

Skills

Students are able to:

Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain how individuals and communities can protect Earth's natural resources and its environment.

Understanding

Students understand that:

Individual communities interact with components of environmental systems and can have both positive and negative effects.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts

Systems and System Models

Interdisciplinary Connection(s)

Link to Resource

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/msts14.ela.wastewant/waste-not-want-…

Content Type / Source

CR Resource Type

Interactive/Game

Resource Provider

PBS

Accessibility

License

License Type

Custom

Custom License Type (URL)

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/help/terms-of-use/#permitted

Comments or Notes

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Approved Date

2021-03-30

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