Assessment
Quia: Renewable vs. Nonrenewable Resources Quiz
The Changing Earth: SOL 3.10 Test
Projects
Earth's Resources
Research the efficiency and cost of different types of energy resources (renewable and/or nonrenewable). Compare and contrast the findings. Present or discuss findings with the class.
Disaster Collage
Students will create a two page collage of one type of disaster. One page will show information about the disaster and the second will show it's effects and necessary saftey precautions.
Natural Resources Project
Conservation Persuasion Poster
Tell the students that it would be helpful for them to share their information and ideas about conserving water with others so that even more people can conserve water. Explain that it is called persuasion when you want to convince other people to do something. Explain that they will be creating a poster to persuade people to conserve water. They must choose one method of water conservation. Their poster must show and tell the reader how to conserve water. Ask a few children to share ideas of what could be done. (for example: Write "turn off the water while you are brushing your teeth" and draw a picture of someone brushing his/her teeth with the water not running at the same time.) Provide the students with drawing paper and writing instruments. Give the students ample time to complete a poster. Allow the students to display their posters throughout the school or perhaps in local businesses.
The Changing Earth: SOL 3.10 Test
Projects
Earth's Resources
Research the efficiency and cost of different types of energy resources (renewable and/or nonrenewable). Compare and contrast the findings. Present or discuss findings with the class.
Disaster Collage
Students will create a two page collage of one type of disaster. One page will show information about the disaster and the second will show it's effects and necessary saftey precautions.
Natural Resources Project
- Identify natural resources - such as plants, land, minerals, water - on a walk.
- Enumerate your family’s conservation efforts.
- Compare and contrast living and non-living natural resources.
- Compare and contrast uses of natural resources that use them up and that don’t.
- Make a diagram showing things that influence air or water quality in your area.
- Start a list of what products and uses plant resources provide for humans. Continue to add to it as new items come to light (consider air, food, medicine, pigment, clothing, preventing soil erosion, etc.)
- Choose the five plants that you think are most important to people and the Earth and tell why.
- Define the role that natural resources play in defining an environment.
- Use photographs to contrast natural and human-made resources.
- Make a map showing your state’s natural resources.
Conservation Persuasion Poster
Tell the students that it would be helpful for them to share their information and ideas about conserving water with others so that even more people can conserve water. Explain that it is called persuasion when you want to convince other people to do something. Explain that they will be creating a poster to persuade people to conserve water. They must choose one method of water conservation. Their poster must show and tell the reader how to conserve water. Ask a few children to share ideas of what could be done. (for example: Write "turn off the water while you are brushing your teeth" and draw a picture of someone brushing his/her teeth with the water not running at the same time.) Provide the students with drawing paper and writing instruments. Give the students ample time to complete a poster. Allow the students to display their posters throughout the school or perhaps in local businesses.