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Here you'll find lesson plans related to the materials presented in this site, for the educational use in the classroom. It's very flexible, you can add your own entries, or use the entries provided to arrange a more relevant entry to your situation. These entries are designed to start critical thinking session and creative real-life applications. Organized in table, choose any plans by firstly referring to the Content Area column. You can involve yourself by contributing your own lesson plans in the Knowledge Base's Teacher's Corner.

Content Area Foundation Thinking Application
Air Pollution
  • The overview
  • Sources and methods of air pollution
  • Facts and visualizations
Investigate what leads to air pollution

What is the difference between air pollution caused by natural sources and man-made sources?

Go to a nearby highway or crowded street, and observe how the pollution level of the area and examine how it affects your body

 

Water Pollution
  • The overview
  • Sources and Methods
  • Facts and Visualizations
Investigate what leads to water pollution

In your opinion, which pollutants are the deadliest and contributes the greatest devastation to the riverine system and explain why.

Go to a nearby river or water sources to observe them, how it affects nearby living environment
Land Pollution
  • The overview
  • Sources and Methods
  • Facts and Visualizations
Investigate what leads to land pollution

Where does your rubbish go after you dispose it?

Explain what is meant by reduce, reuse and recycle?

What do excessive use of chemicals in agriculture lead to?

How do you describe 'improper sanitation system'?

Draw a structure of a landfill

Go to nearby landfill and interview the authority there about landfill mechanisms and condition

Compost your own disposals 

Clean up your neighborhood

 

 

Noise Pollution
  • The overview
  • Sources and Methods
  • Facts and Visualizations
Investigate what leads to noise pollution

Describe what is decibel

Calculate the difference between intensities of 10-10watts/m2 and 102watts/m2. In your opinion, explain whether at this intensity, can any living organisms survive, and if so, what kind of organisms?

Define loudness and frequency. In your opinion, which of this contributes more to noise pollution?

Put yourself in a situation of heavy noise around you and examine what happens to your psychological mood
Radioactive Pollution
  • The overview
  • Sources and Methods
  • Facts and Visualizations
Why radioactive pollution is one widely concerned type of pollution?

How to best store nuclear waste?

What do you know about atom fusion alternative? Will it be a good alternative?

Investigate nuclear accidents map in this site, and analyze

Visit websites about nuclear energy or radioactivity

From visiting the websites above, discuss what are the impacts of radioactive waste to the surrounding environment

Investigate nuclear accidents

Carbon and nitrogen cycle Observe the carbon and nitrogen cycle in our website. Investigate carbon cycle and/or nitrogen cycle and explain how does it contribute to the support of life on earth Draw a diagram about carbon cycle and nitrogen cycle

 

 

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