Environmental Education: Action Plan in School

Involve Community

Educate the community about the impacts of air pollution, and how to reduce personal contributions to air emissions.

Create an anti-idling education program. Develop a woodstove education program. Creation of a Biodiversity Action Plan that includes aquatics and wetlands. Restore and protect significant areas identified through the plan.
Increase community awareness and support for the protection

and enhancement of the biodiversity and ecology of the Urban forest, waterways and corridors. Develop, implement, and provide sustained funding for a comprehensive Urban Forest Master Plan that integrates people, trees, environment and their continual change and interaction with each other. Use best management practices to develop and maintain an inventory of trees. Identify and protect heritage trees. trees. Increase green space within the community. Sustained funding for the coordination of the Tree Stewardship Program.
Integrate Protect and enhance the survival rate of existing

the identification, restoration, and protection of and the concept of

Environmental Protection Areas planning process, and documents.

biodiversity and ecosystem function into the Citys Official plan, Consult with all sectors of the community to determine the feasibility of regulating tree cutting on private land Develop an integrated food waste management system that minimizes the environmental impacts of food production and consumption. Expand municipal composting initiatives.
Continue to subsidize and support education for individual

Composting units.

 Investigate intensive food waste management

Provide disincentives for litter-producing food, for example tax disposable plates and cups Whole School Approach In practice, this approach means that a school will learning for sustainable incorporate teaching and

development not only through aspects of the

curriculum, but also through sustainable school operations such as integrated governance, jstakeholder and community involvement, long-term planning, and sustainability monitoring and evaluation. The integration of sustainable development throughout the curriculum and through the management and operations of school facilities, such as: Paper Plants Food Electricity Green Audit Approach The first phase was the development of the environmental program, which provided information for learners and educators on how to do an eco audit at their schools. This considered elements such as waste reduction, water conservation, energy efficiency and promoting natural biodiversity. The Green Audit Programs will comprise of the following: An Activity and Information Booklet for learners that outlines what a green audit entails (background information); Information on Waste, Water, Energy, Biodiversity and Carbon e.g. what excess carbon emissions mean for the planet, how individuals contribute. A Teachers Guidebook that provides guidance to teachers which will enable learners to do audits and make the curriculum links.

A set of Audit Sheets that can be copied for learners to audit their schools. A set of Activity Sheets to support learners and teachers to do the audits.

Example of Environmental Lesson Plan Lesson Plan for Reading Comprehension Class Date Time Theme Topic Focused Skills Integrated Skills Learning Outcome : 3 Gemilang : 20.09.2010 : 8.00 8.30 : World of Knowledge : (Sea World) Dolphin : Reading : Writing and Spelling (learn new vocabulary) : By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:1.3 Acquire vocabulary and understand the meaning of words and Phrases in context 1.5 Obtain information from texts listed to, in relation to main ideas Specification, details and sequence 2.3 Give relevant information politely in response to enquiries made 3.3 Read and understand phrases, sentences, paragraph and Whole text Curriculum Specification pictures and the : 1.3.3 Listen and match the meaning of words to Spoken words 1.5.3 Listen and understand simple factual texts 2.3.1 Respond to Wh question 3.3.3 Read and understand simple sentence Lesson Objectives : By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:i) Understand the meaning of words and phrases in

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Obtain information from text given and get the main idea of the text Read and understand simple factual text

iii) Thinking Skills Moral Values Teaching Aids and white board Stage / Time Set Induction +-3 mins Content Student will recite a doa translated in English, and Surah Alam Nasrah and they will sing a song from Barney I Love You

: Cognitive skills : Keep the sea clean : Power point, MP3, Picture card, word card, hand out Teaching/Learning Strategies i. Student are asked to recite doa every time before start the class ii. Student also will sing a different song for every class but for today they will sing I Love You song because it will relate with the topic that we will discuss in class Rationale i. To educate the student that we need to start everything with doa before we do anything else ii. Music will make them feel enjoy and have fun in English class Remarks

Stage 1 15 minutes

1. What can find in the sea, have you even been scuba or went to any underwater world before or watch any documentary about sea creatures? 2. Before we start watching this video I need you to list down, names of any sea creatures in the video that you will watch after this, OK Student? Notes : Teacher will pass one blank paper for pupils to list down all the sea creatures that they knows. 3. Have you ever watch that kind of videos and did you recognised anything inside that video?

I .Before watching a sea video, teacher want to know some background knowledge about what sea creatures do they know anything about it

Sea creatures videos, pictures card with spelling and blank paper for pupils to list down all the sea creatures name

ii. Teacher want to know do they know some of the names of the see creatures because teacher want to know how much is their vocabulary on the sea creatures video iii. Student will list down sea creatures name and teacher will get to know how much vocabulary they have in minds on sea creatures names iv. Student will check in the list names of the sea creatures that they have seen

v. Teacher will first explain new vocabulary that they will 4. Teacher give some names from the learn from the text e.g. mammals, octopus, squid, video that they have shark, dolphin, seen 5. Whose have ever heard this word? Mammals, octopus, squid, shark, dolphin vi. Teacher will show few pictures card of sea creatures like whale, dolphin, octopus, squid, & shark

6. Can you recognise these pictures? dolphin, whale, turtle, octopus, squid, shark,

v. Teacher pronounces the words, pupils listen, pupils repeat after teacher. Teacher spell: dolphin, whale, turtle, octopus, squid, shark,

seahorse, fish.

seahorse, fish. and ask student to spell it together with teacher

7. Please repeat after me kids : dolphin, whale, turtle, octopus, squid, shark, seahorse, fish.

vi. Teacher paste dolphin, whale, turtle, octopus, squid, shark, seahorse, and fish spelling on the board and ask student to paste the picture on the board

8. Teacher shows the picture cards in front of class and ask pupils to match the name card and pictures card on the board

1. Can you tell me what is dolphin, where can we find dolphin, what colour dolphin has? What makes dolphin different from other fish?

Stage 2

2. What is a mammal? 3.Teacher will explain dolphin body parts and introduce Snouts means

i. Teacher will explain what is dolphin

Bottlenose dolphins are small, toothed whales that have a long, beaklike snout, a sickle-shaped dorsal fin, and sharp teeth. Dolphins breathe air through a single blowhole. They grow to be at most 12 feet (3.3 m) long. Dolphins live in small groups of up to 12 whales; these groups are called pods. Dolphins make high-pitched whistles, clicks, moans, squeaks, and other sounds. Bottlenose dolphins have a life span of about 25 years. They mammals and not fish. Swimming: Like other whales, dolphins swim by moving their tail (called flukes) up and down. Fish swim by moving their tail left and right. Diet: Bottlenose dolphins are hunters who find their prey at the surface of the water, eating mostly fish and squid. Distribution: The bottlenose dolphin is found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters. Some live offshore and others live near the coast. Echolocation: Like other toothed whales, dolphins use echolocation, a way of sensing in which they emit high-pitched clicks and sense them as they bounce back off objects (including prey).

Pictures of mammals animals such as cats, dogs, tigers, mice, elephants, gorillas, pandas, horses, whales, and dolphins.

ii. Teacher will explain types or mammals animals and is mammals example: Mammals are animals that have hair, are warm-blooded, and nourish their young with milk. Some modern-day mammals include cats, dogs, tigers, mice, elephants, gorillas, pandas, horses, whales, and dolphins. iii. Teachers will explain

dolphin body part

Stage 3

1. Teacher pass the handouts and the reading texts and present to pupils by using power point 2. Teacher reads the texts to pupils and they listen the text carefully 3. Then pupils read the story by them self (handouts are given) 4. Teaches ask student to works in pairs, read the instruction, discuss and answer the question on the worksheets given

i. student will answer the Text (handouts) , question after reading the text power point :presentation 1. The bottlenose dolphin is one of the ____________ marine animals. A) Fastest B) Smartest C) Longest D) Warmest 2. This word starts with an "M." Dolphins belong to this group of animals that are warm-blooded, have hair, and nourish their young with milk. What is this group called? ____________________ 3. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a mammal? A) They have hair on their

skin B) They are cold-blooded C) They are warm-blooded D) The female produces milk for its young 4. In the sentence, The bottlenose dolphin gets its name from its bottle-shaped snout, what does the word snout mean? A) Tail B) Fin C) Head D) Nose 5. This word starts with a "S." Dolphins have these in their mouth - they are used to catch their food. What are they called? _______________________ 6. This word starts with an "F." What type of animals do dolphins eat? ___________________

5. Food that bottlenose

dolphin likes to eat

Closure

1. Is dolphin a fish? 2. What is a mammal? 3. Where can we find whale, dolphin, octopus, squid, and

i. Teacher ask student to what is dolphin, what is mammals and where can we find whale, dolphin, octopus, squid, shark and snout means

shark? 4. What is snout means? 5. What will happen to all the sea creatures if we did not take a good care of the seas?

ii. Teacher infuses moral values