Humans and the Earth
Step One:
With your team, make a list to answer each of the following 2 questions (you will share your lists with the rest of the class):
1) How and in what ways do humans depend on nature and the environment?
2) How and in what ways does nature and the environment depend on humans?
Step 2:
What is the author trying to say in the poem? Is there a common theme found within both the video and the poem? If so, what is it? If not, what are each of the video and the poem trying to express? Discuss this within your groups.
With your team, make a list to answer each of the following 2 questions (you will share your lists with the rest of the class):
1) How and in what ways do humans depend on nature and the environment?
2) How and in what ways does nature and the environment depend on humans?
Step 2:
- Click on the "Video" tab on the tool bar to view "When Humans Disappear". Return here after the video!
- Click on the "Poem" tab on the tool bar to read Shel Silverstein's poem "Where the Sidewalk Ends". Return here after the poem!
What is the author trying to say in the poem? Is there a common theme found within both the video and the poem? If so, what is it? If not, what are each of the video and the poem trying to express? Discuss this within your groups.
Step 3:
Time to share what you have learned! With your team of 3, decide on one issue/theme/idea that came up in your discussion about the video and poem. Create a concept map to help you organize all you know about the issue/theme/idea that you decide to work with. Consider each of your own experiences with the topic you have chosen to work with and include these experiences within your concept map. We will share these team concept maps with the rest of the class.
Listen carefully to each team as they share their topic concept map as you will each be assessing your peers according to clarity and detailed discussion of their presented map. After all the teams have shared, go back to your own team's concept map and change or add any new ideas you may have learned from the other teams' presentations.
Time to share what you have learned! With your team of 3, decide on one issue/theme/idea that came up in your discussion about the video and poem. Create a concept map to help you organize all you know about the issue/theme/idea that you decide to work with. Consider each of your own experiences with the topic you have chosen to work with and include these experiences within your concept map. We will share these team concept maps with the rest of the class.
Listen carefully to each team as they share their topic concept map as you will each be assessing your peers according to clarity and detailed discussion of their presented map. After all the teams have shared, go back to your own team's concept map and change or add any new ideas you may have learned from the other teams' presentations.