Pollution
- Students should be introduced to the idea of pollution.
- Students should learn that litter is a form of pollution as well as learning about solutions to the problem of litter.
- Students should be helped to understand how recycling is helpful, necessary, and how many ways it can be done. They should know the difference between the three terms reduce, reuse, and recycle.
- Students should understand what composting is, how it is done, which food scraps are appropriate for composting, and why it is a better choice than throwing food scraps in the trash.
- Students should be made aware of shat Earth Day is and how it came about.
- Students should be introduced to the idea of air pollution being substances in the air that can be harmful to living things. They also should become aware that air pollution can be generated by people or by natural occurrences.
- Discussions should include the consequences of air pollution as well as focus on shat we can do to help to keep our air clean.
- Students should have some understanding of water pollution, how water comes to be polluted, and should begin to think of solutions to the problem.
- Students sold understand how oil pollution comes about,how it is hazardous to aquatic life and all parts of a food chain and/or web, and the extreme difficulties people face in its removal.
- Students should understand the difference between hard and soft water, that mineral content in water poses no direct threat to living things, but that it causes people to use more soap which in the end does have a significant environmental impact.
- Students should become familiar with some other chemical pollutants we can become exposed to daily.
- Students should become aware of what acid rain is, how it forms, and what the consequences are of acid rain.
- Students should be made aware of the fact that the Earth's increased population, use of different types of resources, as wall as increased amounts of resources has damaged land over the last century and what is being done to reverse this damage.
- Students should be aware of what makes up noise pollution and light pollution.