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“Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained” Informational Earth Science: Compare and Contrast & Crossword Puzzle

4th Grade • 1 Lesson Plan
$2.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: 1 Lesson Plan

Skills:

  • Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice
  • Ask and answer text dependent questions in order to...
    • Identify key details and determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary using context clues
    • Practice comparing and contrasting
    • Create a crossword puzzle demonstrating their understanding of the information

Materials Needed:

  • Blank & lined pieces of paper
  • Pencil & crayons/colored pencils
  • Document camera or whiteboard.

Printable Resources: Required:

  • copies of Informational Text: “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained” by Jennifer Kaul (1 copy per student)
Optional:
  • “Comparing Design” graphic organizer (1 per students or project using document camera for students to copy)
  • Crossword Puzzle (1 per students or project using document camera for students to copy)

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, & RI.4.8

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Multilingual learners feel supported with guided collaborative conversations using sentence frames to demonstrate their understanding of this complex read based around Earth Science Standards.  In this 4th Grade fully scripted 1 hour lesson plan using the informational Earth Science text, “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained” your students will:

Part 1: Practice the skills of  compare and contrast with the topic of renewable and nonrenewable resources
Part 2: Demonstrate their understanding of the informational text on renewable and nonrenewable resources by creating a crossword puzzle

The text used in this lessons addresses the NGSS: ESS3.A:

  • Natural Resources Energy and fuels that humans use are derived from natural sources, and their use affects the environment in multiple ways. Some resources are renewable over time, and others are not.

**Purchasing both this 1 hour and the ELA Bundle: “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained” Informational Earth Science Bundle,” will result in duplicate content.