Human Impact on the Environment: POLLUTION ACTIVITIES BUNDLE

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Engage students with CRITICAL THINKING and DATA ANALYSIS as you cover many aspects of pollution:

• Air Pollution (Information Stations)
• Water Pollution (Practice Data Analysis)
• Land Pollution (Practice Graphing)
• Basics of Biomagnification (Engaging Text and Questions)

And, every included activity includes both PRINT and GOOGLE SLIDES options to assign!

Individual Product Descriptions:

Air Pollution Stations: Print-and-go information stations! Students practice different skills at each station all while learning about different aspects of air pollution. Station cards include text passages to read, diagrams to analyze, data and graphs to analyze, a map to interpret, and a timeline. Students answer questions for each station on a corresponding student sheet.

Graphing Garbage: In this activity, students will:

• Read an introductory article about landfills, waste-to-energy facilities, composting, and recycling.
• Graph 5 different sets of waste-related data. Line graphs, bar graphs, and a pie chart are included.
• Answer analysis questions based on the data.

Water Pollution Data Analysis Stations: Students practice different reading and data analysis skills at each station all while learning about different aspects of water pollution. Station cards include text passages to read, data and graphs to analyze, or a map to interpret. Students answer questions for each station on a corresponding student sheet.

“Flying Cats” Biomagnification Lesson: In this activity, students will:

• Read the engaging article “Flying Cats” about how cats had to be parachuted into Borneo to control rats, all because of DDT (Based on a true story!)
• Answer text-dependent analysis questions
• Learn a brief and middle school-level lesson on bioaccumulation and biomagnification as it relates to the article

Teacher Notes:

• Please note that these resources are not editable.
• All answer keys included.
• No supplies are needed for any of these activities – just copies!
• Go paperless! Each activity includes a version in Google Slides.
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