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Green Spaces Lesson: Health Benefits

Created by Teacher(s): Lindsey Pockl, Amber Medina|Published on: September 30, 2021
Lesson Plan Grades 3-5 Created by SubjectToClimate teachers

Synopsis

This lesson asks students to consider how their communities would look and feel with and without green spaces. 


Step 1 - Inquire: Students draw a community without any green space. Students think, notice, and wonder about this community and how it might feel for humans and animals to live in that community.


Step 2 - Investigate: Students learn about a community activist named Ken Sparks who turned his patio into a green space and inspired others to do the same. Then students listen to a read aloud of Bee and Me.


Step 3 - Inspire: Students conduct research to further explore the relationship between green spaces and mental health, physical health, ecosystem health, and climate change. Teacher collects student notes on a word wall. Finally, students draw another map of their community featuring as many green spaces as they would like to include.

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Subjects: Geography, English Language Arts
Duration: 45 minutes
Region: North America, USA - West, United States
Posted on Sep 30, 2021

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