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ISBN: 978-0-66364-070-6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 15 14 13 12 Table of Contents Table of Contents LESSON 1 LESSON 8 What Is Environmental Citizenship? 1 We Can Make a Difference! 35 My Plan to Make a Difference for the Climate 39 LESSON 2 What Is Good Citizenship? 3 LESSON 9 Good Citizenship and Community 5 Nine Things You Need to Know about Rights and Responsibilities T-chart 7 Global Warming: And how it’s affecting Environmental Citizenship Vocabulary 8 animals and the planet 41 LESSON 3 LESSON 10 Time to Volunteer: Cleaning up is in Review of Lessons 1–9 47 the bag for one student 11 Review of Important Learning 48 My Opinion of Samantha 13 LESSON 11 LESSON 4 What Is Groundwater? 49 Climate and Weather 15 Groundwater Diagram 52 Climate vs. Weather T-chart 17 LESSON 12 LESSON 5 Kids Can Protect Groundwater Too! 53 Climate Change: What It Is … 19 Water Protection Web 56 What’s Up with Global Warming? 21 Global Warming Questions 23 LESSON 13 Water Worries 57 LESSON 6 Ways I Use Water 58 Can We Change the Climate? 25 Be Water Wise All Week 59 My Activities That Require the Use of Fossil Fuels 28 Water Use Journal 62 LESSON 14 LESSON 7 Pollution Patrol: Children help clean So, What’s the Big Deal? 29 up polluted river near Portland, What I Have Learned about the Oregon 63 Environment and Climate Change 33 Neighborhood Nature 68 Getting Involved 69 FOUNDATIONS: COMPREHENDING TEXTS—LEVEL A | i Table of Contents LESSON 15 LESSON 25 Underground Adventure: There’s more Review of Renewable Energy 119 to soil than meets the eye 71 Renewable Energy Matrix, Part 3 120 Healthy Soil, Healthy Critters 76 Opinion Rubric 121 Best Renewable Energy for My LESSONS 16–17 Community 122 Clean Air and Dirty Air 77 Your Health and the AQI 87 LESSON 26 Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: Three great ways you can eliminate waste LESSON 18 and protect your environment 123 What Is Renewable Energy? 89 Jigsaw Activity 132 Energy Graphic Organizer 91 LESSON 27 LESSON 19 Dirty Job, Great Rewards 133 Wind Power 93 Tracing Pronouns to Referents 137 How Wind Becomes Electricity 96 LESSON 28 LESSON 20 Tackling the Trash 139 Hydropower 97 Writing a Summary 143 Renewable Energy Matrix, Part 1 99 How Flowing Water Becomes Electricity 100 LESSON 29 Protecting Our Planet 145 LESSON 21 Venn Diagram 148 Solar Power 101 Overview of Earth Day 149 Renewable Energy Matrix, Part 2 104 LESSON 30 LESSON 22 Culminating Project 151 Sun-Powered Speed 105 Project Planning Sheet 154 Catching Some Rays: Build a solar oven 107 Opinion Rubric for Culminating Project 155 Using Solar Power: Now and Future 109 MY NOTES N1 LESSON 23 Geothermal Energy 111 CREDITS LESSON 24 Biomass Energy 115 ii | LITERACY NAVIGATOR Table of Contents Table of Contents My Notes: A Reader’s Comprehension of the Texts INTRODUCTION N1 LESSON 10 My Notes on Review of Lessons 1–9 N11 LESSON 1 My Notes on “What Is Environmental LESSON 11 Citizenship?” N2 My Notes on “What Is Groundwater?” N12 LESSON 2 LESSON 12 My Notes on “What Is Good Citizenship?” My Notes on “Kids Can Protect and “Good Citizenship and Community” N3 Groundwater Too!” N13 LESSON 3 LESSON 13 My Notes on “Time to Volunteer” N4 My Notes on “Water Worries” and “Be Water Wise All Week” N13 LESSON 4 My Notes on “Climate and Weather” N5 LESSON 14 My Notes on “Pollution Patrol” N14 LESSON 5 My Notes on “Climate Change: What LESSON 15 It Is …” and “What’s Up with Global My Notes on “Underground Adventure” N14 Warming?” N6 LESSON 16 LESSON 6 My Notes on “Clean Air and Dirty Air” N15 My Notes on “Can We Change the Climate?” N7 LESSON 17 LESSON 7 My Notes on “Clean Air and Dirty Air” N16 My Notes on “So, What’s the Big Deal?” N8 LESSON 18 LESSON 8 My Notes on “What Is Renewable Energy?” N17 My Notes on “We Can Make a Difference!” N9 LESSON 19 LESSON 9 My Notes on “Wind Power” N17 My Notes on “Nine Things You Need to Know about Global Warming” N10 FOUNDATIONS: COMPREHENDING TEXTS—LEVEL A | iii Table of Contents LESSON 20 My Notes on “Hydropower” N18 LESSON 21 My Notes on “Solar Power” N18 LESSON 22 My Notes on “Sun-Powered Speed” and “Catching Some Rays” N19 LESSON 23 My Notes on “Geothermal Energy” N19 LESSON 24 My Notes on “Biomass Energy” N20 LESSON 25 My Notes on Review of Renewable Energy N20 LESSON 26 My Notes on “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle” N21 LESSON 27 My Notes on “Dirty Job, Great Rewards” N22 LESSON 28 My Notes on “Tackling the Trash” N22 LESSON 29 My Notes on “Protecting Our Planet” and “Overview of Earth Day” N23 LESSON 30 My Notes on the Culminating Project N24 iv | LITERACY NAVIGATOR Table of Contents Reading Passage for Lesson # Reading # Title Reading Passage for Lesson #1 ReadingWhat Is Environmental # Title Citizenship? 1 The environment is the natural world around us, including the air, water, soil, plants, and animals. Environmental citizenship is the idea that each of us is an important part of the environment in which we live, and that our future depends on acting responsibly and positively toward that environment. Sounds good, doesn’t it? But what exactly does that mean to you? 2 Environmental citizenship means learning about our environment, planet Earth. Earth is a large ecosystem—a group of living and nonliving things that work together. Plants and animals, including humans, depend on each other and the environment around them for food and shelter. If the sun, air, land, water, or any other part of the ecosystem changes, other parts are affected. When we learn about the ecosystem, we are better able to protect it from negative changes. 3 Environmental citizenship means becoming aware of the dangers to our ecosystem. We must understand the effects that our daily Photos: © iStockphoto.com/Morgan Lane Studios (left); © iStockphoto.com (above) FOUNDATIONS: COMPREHENDING TEXTS—LEVEL A | 1 What Is Environmental Citizenship? Reading Passage for1 for Lesson Lesson # 2 lives have on the environment. One of the biggest dangers to our pollution contamination of the environment is pollution—pollution caused by humans. Pollution air, land, or water that is ReadingWhat Is Good # Title Citizenship? usually caused by human threatens the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the land on carelessness which we live—all of which are essential to our survival. essential 4 Environmental citizenship means getting involved in finding important or necessary; vital solutions to the threats to our environment. We need to find ways to help reduce waste and stop pollution. We have the right to live in a healthy environment with clean air, fresh water, and unpolluted soil. As environmental citizens, we also have a responsibility to protect the environment and keep it clean for others. 5 Environmental citizenship means raising the awareness of individuals, communities, and governments so that everyone takes environmental rights and responsibilities seriously. We must talk and work together in our homes and schools, in our communities, and in our workplaces. We must take action to care for the Earth. We must share ideas and begin to work together to become good environmental citizens. 6 Environmental citizenship means making changes in our daily lives so that Earth will be a healthy place for the plants, animals, and people of tomorrow. We must embrace the challenge of reducing pollution and acting positively toward our environment. As we study environmental citizenship we will learn about the water, air, and soil. We will explore the problems facing the environment and investigate possible solutions to the problems we face. 2 | LITERACY NAVIGATOR What Is Environmental Citizenship? Reading Passage for1 for Lesson Lesson #2 2 ReadingWhat Is Good # Title Citizenship? Citizenship is man’s basic right for it is nothing less than the right to have rights … —Earl Warren, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1 As citizens, people who live in a community, city, state, or country have certain rights and responsibilities. Good citizens know their rights and understand their responsibilities. Good citizens actively participate in matters that are important to themselves, as well as to their family, friends, neighbors, community, and country. democracy 2 As a citizen living in a democracy, you have many rights. But government by the people rights also come with responsibilities. For example, you have the right to have your own beliefs. However, you also have the responsibility to respect the rights of other people.