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“Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained” Informational Earth Science Bundle

4th Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

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
    • Integrate text features in order to create a new "layout" for the text
    • 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)
  • “Brainstorming 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

Perfect for multilingual students learning English, this series of lessons includes strategic scaffolding with sentence frames for building vocabulary through collaborative conversations.  Using the informational Earth Science text, “Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Your Energy Use Explained” your students will:

  • Segment 1: Develop vocabulary and understanding through strategic partner talk in order to practice moving from a literal interpretation of informational text to evaluation and synthesis by asking and answering text dependent questions
  • Segment 2: Practice the skills of  compare and contrast with the topic of renewable and nonrenewable resources
  • Segment 3: Create a new layout for the informational text that incorporates select text features.
  • Practice the skills of  compare and contrast with the topic of renewable and nonrenewable resources
  • Bonus Segment 4: Demonstrate their understanding of the informational text on renewable and nonrenewable resources by creating a crossword puzzle

The text used in these 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.

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.