LACE
LACE is a set of culminating activities that educators can effortlessly tie into their current curriculum practices. LACE offers the necessary resources for educators to implement standard-based lessons which coincide with ChicoBag® fundraising opportunities. These real-world strategies provide students with the tools they need in order to take action within their community through awareness, research and dialogue. These lessons can aid in reducing the negative impact plastics have on our environment and supports the notion of using reusable bags, as opposed to plastic bags.
LACE offers students engaging lessons that provide them with the necessary skills they need in order to meet state and national standards. These activities also provide students the opportunity to go beyond national and state standards by giving them the ability to use what they have learned, in order to begin taking action within their community. The LACE curriculum is created in a flexible manner which provides educators the opportunity to incorporate all or some of the real-world strategies which they feel meet the needs of their learners. The flexibility of the lessons gives educators the advantage of using what they feel is effective not only in regards to their students’ achievement, but also aids in managing what lessons educators choose to use based on their availability of instructional time.
RATIONALE
National Science Education Standards and state standards require educators to implement lessons which provide students the opportunities to investigate, experiment, and take action using real-world strategies in order to increase student achievement. These lessons provide educators the ability to tie in real-world lessons that meet the needs of all learners.
These lessons provide students the ability to go beyond the “normal” curriculum and become active in a cause locally. LACE offers students the necessary steps to teach them how to become advocates not only for the environmental concerns contributed by plastics, but gives students the necessary skills to advocate for future causes they wish to take a stance on.
STANDARDS
LACE lessons act in accordance with the Investigation and Experimentation section of the California Content Standards and the National Science Education Standards.
OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to:Express why promoting awareness about reducing the use of plastics is important.
Identify some of the negative impacts the uses of plastics have on our environment.
State the importance of reducing the use of plastics.
Describe the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Discuss the harmful effects of plastics on our environment.
Write a letter to a local official or business that addresses the negative impact plastics have on our environment.
Test the amount of plastics used in our community.
Question the status quo in regards to the amount of plastics used by their community.
Design a poster that creates awareness in regards to reusable bags.
Create awareness within their community about reducing the use of plastic bags.
Develop a fundraising pitch that helps them take action in regards to reducing the use of plastics within their community.
Propose an alternative method or program that can help reduce the negative impact plastics have on our environment by addressing these issues within their home, school, or community.
Evaluate the harmful impact plastics have on our environment and take positive steps in reducing the use of plastics.
