Kim Roedema and Emilee D’Angelo

1. Title or Topic of the Lesson and Grade Level: 5th grade, Lack of Natural Resources

2. Lesson Essential Question(s): How can we preserve water? Can natural resources run out?

3. Standards:
6. 1. 4. B. 4. Describe how landforms, climate and weather, and availability of resources
have impacted where and how people live and work in different regions of New Jersey and
the United States.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when
drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.B

Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other
information and examples related to the topic.

4. A. Learning Objectives and Assessments:

Learning Objectives Assessments

Students will be able to make predictions about To pre-assess the students we will be having
each statement showing their background them each fill out an anticipation guide stating if
knowledge. each statement is true or false.

Students will be able to quote accurately from Students will quote from the text on their
the text, showing their understanding of it and anticipation guide, confirming or changing their
making conclusions about the statements from it. minds about each statement.

Students will be able to express and defend their Students will quote from the text on their
opinion to their group members. anticipation guide, confirming or changing their
minds about each statement.

5. Materials:
● TIME Kids Magazine: Countdown To Day Zero, by Brian S. McGrath
● Anticipation Guide

“Countdown to Day Zero” Anticipation Guide

Statements True/ Reason for Choice True/Fals Evidence
False e After for Choice
Before Reading (Quotes from the
Reading Article)

Water is an
unlimited
natural
resource
that will
never run
out.

Every
country
uses the
same
amount of
water as
the United
States.

When
South
Africa runs
out of
water,
there will
be a limit
on how
much water
each
person can
take.

There are
no ways to
help South
Africa
maintain a
large
enough
water
supply.

There are
laws in
South
Africa
against
using water
to fill a
swimming
pool.

It is
possible to
completely
shut off
water
supply to a
home or
business.
6. Pre-lesson assignments and/or prior knowledge: Students have learned about natural resources
before and know some examples of them. They also have learned about saving water in science.

7. Lesson Beginning: The students will complete an anticipation guide. We will explain what anticipation
guide is and give students 5 minutes to make predictions about each statement on the guide. This will
pre-assess the students, as well as get them thinking about the article’s contents.

8. Instructional Plan:
After students fill out the prior knowledge portion of the anticipation guide, we will have them discuss
with their table, defending their choices until each group member is on the same page.

They will then come back to their seats and all read the article. They will reread the statements on their
sheet and either support or dispute each statement on the anticipation guide by finding a quote from
the article. They will then talk with their group again to see if they all have the same answers. If they
don’t, they will try to convince them again by sharing their quotes.

Then we will discuss as a class what each answer is and why through the text.

o Differentiation: For students who can’t read the article, we will have them buddy read so they can talk
about each article while they read.

o Questions: Why are our natural resources running out? Can natural resources run out? What will we
do when our natural resources run out? Can we change anything to help prevent waste/scarcity of
water?

o Classroom Management: The paper passer will distribute the anticipation guides out when we are
introducing the lesson. We will have the students discuss with the tables they are already sitting at. We
will have copies of the article for each student. We will use the whole class method to gather their
attention in between discussions.

9. Closure: We will have students write a paragraph proposing a solution for Africa’s water scarcity.
They will have to include quotes, facts and lots of details from the article. After, we will have a class
discussion about some of the solutions they came up with.