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Essential Questions:
How do people change the environment around them?
How can I help to stop the pollution problem?
Standards Addressed:
1) New Hampshire GE: 6:2.1 Describe the ways regions change.
2) New Hampshire GE: 6:3.4 Explain how human activities influence change in the ecosystem.
3) New Hampshire GE: 6:5:1 Understand the consequences of human modification of the physical
environment.
Objectives Assessments
At the end of the lesson, students will be able to . . . I will know they can do this because they will . . .
1) Cite examples of HEI from The Lorax Contribute to class discussion of HEI examples; write
examples in the cause part of a graphic organizer
2) Determine the effect that each example Contribute to class discussion of HEI effects; complete
has on the environment the effect part of a graphic organizer, including
inferences and hypotheses if story does not provide
enough information
3) Explain one way they can help to Write a personal pollution solution for homework
stop/solve a current pollution problem
2) Spectrum (10 min.): Read and display the following statement: When people decide to buy goods,
they think about the effect it has on the environment. (You may need to review what goods are and how
they are made.) Have students indicate their level of agreement with the statement by standing along a
spectrum, labeled Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree. Then have them take a
seat to write a brief explanation of their view and report it to the class.
At a few key points in the reading, stop to revisit the predictions the class made. Which predictions were
accurate? Which should be revised, and why? Which new predictions can the class offer about what will
happen later in the story? Other literary elements to discuss during story: present-past-present
sequencing of story; foreshadowing; change in color indicating progression of pollution; theme, and how
this theme is supported; symbolism of the Lorax, Once-ler, Thneed, etc.
7) Homework: Pollution solution (20 min.): Have students work alone to write a paragraph about
something that is causing a pollution problem in their own environment, and one way they can help to
stop the problem.