1-2.2 Links To Information For Teachers

Vocabulary

• natural resources
• compare ways people use land differently
• basic resources (food, shelter, education, health, sanitation
• scarce
• natural environment
• industrialized countries
• environmental problems
• conservation problems

Suggestions

• This is an overwhelming concept for first graders. First start talking about how a child can conserve at school and at home.
• Talk about the basic needs that the children often take for granted. Make sure that you are understanding of students social statis and family situation.
• Talk about any problems that might be going on in the world—current events—that might allow the students to see others without the conveniences that we have in this country. Use CNN and the internet for current pictures.
• Refer back to pictures that are used in k-5.4 Links To Information For teachers and ask the students how these pictures could be changed by polution.
• First Grade Dictionary For Vocabulary

Pictures of Polution

• polution
• polution
• polution
• polution

Streamline SC

• Learning About Natural Resources
• Citizenship In the Community

Books

• Natural And Human-Made ByCarol Lindeen
• Earth's Natural Resources, Can They Last? By
• The Great Kapok Tree A Tale of the Amazon Rain forest Lynne Cherry
• Nature Museum by Angela Leeper
• Water by Hazel Richardson
• Air by Jane Walker
• Death Valley: A Day In The Desert by Nancy Levinson
• Earth by Jen Green
• The Rocky Mountains by Marion bauer
• Books of the states names