Green Transportation: ELA Unit
Unit Plan
About 2 hr 55 min3 lessonsGrades5English Language Arts
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About this unit
This unit plan teaches students how green transportation methods can reduce carbon emissions and how reading informational texts can help them to build evidence to support an opinion.
Lessons in this unit
- 1ELA Lesson: Green Transportation Opinion WritingStudents learn about carbon emissions and form an opinion on the best way to reduce carbon emissions related to transportation in their community.Inquire: Stude...Lesson Plan · 1 hr · Grades 5
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- 2ELA Lesson: Air Pollution and Electric VehiclesStudents use reading comprehension skills to learn about asthma, air pollution, and electric vehicles and analyze data from their interview results.Inquire: Stu...Lesson Plan · 50 min · Grades 5
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- 3ELA Lesson: Presenting on Green TransportationStudents create and present an informational poster on the method of green transportation that they think is best for their community and the environment.Inquir...Lesson Plan · 1 hr 5 min · Grades 5
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