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3. develop earth-friendly habits; and 4. advocate for protection of the environment. II. SUBJECT MATTER Acid Rain and Air Pollution III. MATERIALS Paper Pen IV. REFERENCE Salaguinto, Grade 1, Vol. 17, No. 6, SY 2007-2008 V. STRATEGIES A. Opening Activity You may ask your students, “Have you ever seen a dead lake or a dirty pool of water? Describe how it looks like.” B. Development Activity Read and discuss the article. Elicit from your students the problems cited in the article. Write cause and effect. For example, because of indiscriminate logging, a mudslide occurred. This mudslide resulted in the lake filling up with soil and the fish dying. Trace back the source of the problem. Guide your students in realizing that humans are the culprit in abuse of the environment. And if humans are the culprit, what then should be done about it? Have a discussion. C. Summary/Generalization Man has been most indiscriminate in his activities. Illegal logging has led to mudslides and death. Forests have been cut down with very few trees left standing. Bountiful lakes are dead or dying. Acid rain caused by air pollution from industry exhaust now fall from the sky. It poisons bodies of water and causes respiratory damage to people. People must change their ways and promote earth-friendly habits. Stopping air pollution is one of the ways which we can protect the earth and ourselves. D. Assignment Come up with 10 Earth-friendly habits in your notebook. Be sure to follow them. VI. QUESTIONNAIRE List the results of man’s abuse of his resources. Possible Answers: 1. Floods 2. Mudslides 3. Dead lakes or dead bodies of water 4. Acid Rain Young Learners 5. Polluted Air 6. Sickness and disease VII. EVALUATION Test your students’ understanding of the topic with these questions: 1. In the story, why were there were very few trees in the area? 2. What killed the fish in the lake? 3. Why can rain sometimes be dangerous? Answers: 1. The trees were cut down by illegal loggers. 2. The fish were killed by acid rain. Also, the soil from the mudslide filled up the lake. 3. Acid rain looks, feels, and tastes like clean rain. But the pollutants in acid rain, when inhaled, can damage the lungs VIII. OTHER TEACHING IDEAS 1. Have a tree-planting activity. Name your trees after your students. They can water these every day after class. 2. Make Save the Earth posters. Post these around the school. You can also make bookmarks and give them out to friends and family. Regular Features Story for the Young: The Super Outbreak (pp. 3-4) Watch a movie with a tornado in it. Twister is a good movie that depicts tornadoes. Observe the intensity of it and identify where it belongs in the Fujita Scale. If you have the resources, watch a documentary about tornadoes. You can also access YouTube.com and see clips of actual tornadoes in different countries. I am Learning: Tornado Trail (p. 5) Josh is playing a game. He needs to trace the path of a tornado. To do this, he should identify which statements below the objects are telling the truth. Help Josh find the tornado trail. Color the object GREEN if it is telling the truth. Color the objects RED if it is not telling the truth. Then, connect the green objects to show the tornado trail to Josh. Earth Care: Hot and Cold Go Green (pp. 14-15) Join Teacher Sarah’s game! Write your own list on how to save the Earth on both hot and cold days. Share these tips with your family members so you can also follow these at home. My Hands at Work: Spot an Acid (pp. 16-17) Find acid in your everyday food. Collect the materials needed for the experiment. Follow the instructions and observe 4 Vol. 17 No. 6 SY 2007-2008
what happens. Draw your own conclusions. Marvel at the science behind. Let’s Play a Game: Weather Wonders/Kyle’s Closet (p. 18-19) Here are two games you can play with your students. Get out your crayons for a coloring and mind exercise. These games will help you find out how much your students learned from this issue of Salaguinto. Read and Answer: Winter in Batanes (p. 20-21) Winter in Batanes, Philippines? Read the article to find out why the title of the article is so. Have volunteers act out the dialogue in the article. Elicit from your students what they have learned from reading the story. In Real Life: Be Prepared (p. 22) The article teaches us to always be prepared. We have different things to be prepared about. Ask your students to write down 3 things that they need to prepare for in their future. To do this, they will need to identify their long term goals early on. Fun Time: Earth Care Tips (p. 23) It is important to take care of earth. Color the picture that shows how to take care of earth. Then identify if the picture shows an earth care tip for a hot day or cold day. Write your answers in the blanks. Mindgames: Picture Perfect (p. 24) Candy will show her friends what she learned about the weather. She collected cutouts of different pictures. She wants to label each picture. Help Candy label the pictures. Check out the pictures on the page. Encircle the correct word to complete the label. ANSWERS TO THE ACTIVITY MAIN ARTICLE 1: Why Don’t We Have Snow? (pp. 6-7) The colored liquid will move up the straw when the bottle is warmed. Hands have heat that can warm the bottle. MAIN ARTICLE 2: Cotton Candies in the Sky (pp. 8-9) Cloud number 4 should be colored gray. It is not telling the truth about clouds. Stratus clouds are not fat and dark. Stratus clouds are flat and come in layers. MAIN ARTICLE 3: Is It Going to Rain? (pp. 10-11) Make a weather journal and use a thermometer to measure differences in temperature for a week. Young Learners MAIN ARTICLE 4: Why Is the Lake Dead? (pp. 12-13) 1. Mudslide- No more trees to hold soil 2. Air pollution- Smoke from cars and factories 3. Poisoned water- Acid rain I am Learning: Tornado Trail (p. 5) The following statements should be colored GREEN. They are telling the truth. 1. Meteorologists are people who study the weather. 3. The Fujita scale is based on the damage of a tornado. 4. An F5 tornado is called Incredible tornado. 6. An F4 tornado is called Devastating tornado. The following statements should be colored RED. They are not telling the truth. 2. There were 148 tornadoes during the Super Outbreak in April 1979. (April 1974) 5. Tornadoes do not happen in the Philippines. Tornado Trail: JOSH 2 5 TORNADO Let’s Play a Game: (p. 18-19) Weather Wonders (p.18) The following should be encircled using color green- Thermometer (temperature), hygrometer (humidity) The following should be encircled using color red- Barometer (air pressure), anemometer (wind direction) Solve This- Weather journal Kyle’s Closet (p. 19) The following objects should be colored BLUE (used during wet or rainy day)- Raincoat, boots, jacket, umbrella The following objects should be colored YELLOW (used during hot or dry days)- Shirt, sunglass, hat Read and Answer: Winter in Batanes (p. 20-21) 1. What are the people who live in Batanes called? - The people who live in Batanes are called Ivatan. 2. When does “winter” happen in Batanes? – Winter does not happen in Batanes, but cool weather, which the people call winter. This happens in the months of July to February. 3. What’s the weather in Batanes during the months of July to February? – The weather in Batanes during the months of July to February is cool. 4. Why is Batanes often mentioned in a weather report? - Weather forecasters use information from the weather station in Batanes. 5 Vol. 17 No. 6 SY 2007-2008
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