What is the Environment?
Lesson Objectives:
At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:
Define the term “environment”
Identify what makes up the environment
Explain the ways humans change the environment
Essential Questions:
What does the word environment mean?
What is the environment made of?
How can people change the environment?
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Take-Home Guide
Information for parents & legal guardians (available in English and Spanish).
Información para padres de familia y tutores legales (disponible en Inglés y Español).
Standards Alignments
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Additional Video Resources
Watch and learn how to better take care of our environment!
Sensory Activity
Sensory-based play activity with natural materials.
Coloring Page
Kids around the World Coloring Page.
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Social Emotional Learning
Bringing together the worlds of social and emotional learning (SEL) and STEM, this calming and colorful picture book illustrates how we are all connected.
Reading Resources
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FPC Reading List Picks
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Read-Along
Read-along with CiS Educator Kylie as she reads Outside In.
Read-Along
Read-along with CiS Educator Kylie as she reads What If Everybody Did That?.
Lesson Reflection
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Background Information
What is the environment? While that question might seem simple, to a kindergartener, the word "environment" can be confusing! Does the environment include roads, cars, and houses? What about my pet dog or all the animals in the forest? In this lesson, we discuss how the environment includes all the natural formations on Earth, and all the human-made formations as well. Change is Simple considers people to be the most important part of the environment because we have the power to change and impact the environment for the better or the worse. This introduction to Change is Simple and the environment serves as a foundation upon which every other CiS lesson is built.