Tools, Media & Our Earth Home
Objectives
- D10.S1.03.01 Name a simple machine, such as a lever, wheel, or ramp, and tell how it makes a job easier.
- D10.S1.03.02 Describe how one tool or machine changed the way a job was done long ago compared with today.
- D10.S2.03.01 Tell the difference between an advertisement and information, and give one clue that something is an ad.
- D10.S2.03.02 Explain that a message has a purpose and an audience, and name both for a simple message.
- D10.S3.03.01 Build or draw a simple food chain with a plant and an animal and show the direction energy moves.
- D10.S3.03.02 Explain that green plants make their own food using sunlight, and that all living things depend on plants or on animals that eat them.
- D10.S4.03.01 Tell the difference between a natural resource that can run out and one that comes back, such as sunlight, with an example of each.
- D10.S4.03.02 Name one resource people use every day, where it comes from, and one way to use less of it.
Essential questions
- How do tools and media work, and how can I tell what a message is for?
- How does energy move through living things, and how do we care for Earth's resources?
Big ideas
- Tools make work easier, and messages have purposes and audiences I can read.
- Life is linked through food chains, and Earth's resources need careful use.
Lessons
- 1 Simple Machines — Lever, Wheel, and Ramp 45 minutes
- 2 One Job, Then and Now 45 minutes
- 3 Advertisement or Information? 45 minutes
- 4 Every Message Has a Purpose and an Audience 45 minutes
- 5 A Food Chain — Where Energy Moves 45 minutes
- 6 Plants Make Their Own Food 45 minutes
- 7 Runs Out or Comes Back 45 minutes
- 8 One Resource — Where It Comes From, and Using Less 45 minutes
- 9 Our Care Message — Purpose, Audience, and Help 50 minutes
- 10 Our Earth Home: Tools, Media, Living Things, and Care 50 minutes
Assessment plan
A simple-machine "how it helps" note, an ad-versus-information sort, and a food-chain drawing as portfolio artifacts; a "resource that runs out vs. comes back" chart.
Unit 11 — Tools, Media & Our Earth Home
Overview
This unit meets the tools, media, and living Earth we are stewards of, building on Grade 2’s tools-that-solve-problems, telling information from selling, and caring for places. Learners name a simple machine, such as a lever, wheel, or ramp, and tell how it makes a job easier; describe how one tool or machine changed the way a job was done long ago compared with today; tell the difference between an advertisement and information and give one clue that something is an ad; explain that a message has a purpose and an audience and name both for a simple message; build or draw a simple food chain with a plant and an animal and show the direction energy moves; explain that green plants make their own food using sunlight and that all living things depend on plants or on animals that eat them; tell the difference between a natural resource that can run out and one that comes back; and name one resource people use every day, where it comes from, and one way to use less of it. Technology is taught with critical judgment, neither worship nor fear.
Essential questions
- How do tools and media work, and how can I tell what a message is for?
- How does energy move through living things, and how do we care for Earth’s resources?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| L.03.011.01 | Simple Machines — Lever, Wheel, and Ramp | D10.S1.03.01 |
| L.03.011.02 | One Job, Then and Now | D10.S1.03.02 |
| L.03.011.03 | Advertisement or Information? | D10.S2.03.01 |
| L.03.011.04 | Every Message Has a Purpose and an Audience | D10.S2.03.02 |
| L.03.011.05 | A Food Chain — Where Energy Moves | D10.S3.03.01 |
| L.03.011.06 | Plants Make Their Own Food | D10.S3.03.02 |
| L.03.011.07 | Runs Out or Comes Back | D10.S4.03.01 |
| L.03.011.08 | One Resource — Where It Comes From, and Using Less | D10.S4.03.02 |
| L.03.011.09 | Our Care Message — Purpose, Audience, and Help | D10.S2.03.02, D10.S4.03.02 |
| L.03.011.10 | Our Earth Home: Tools, Media, Living Things, and Care | D10.S1.03.01, D10.S1.03.02, D10.S2.03.01, D10.S2.03.02, D10.S3.03.01, D10.S3.03.02, D10.S4.03.01, D10.S4.03.02 |