- explain what composting is,
- identify the importance of treating organic material,
- strengthen your reading skills,
- become aware that you are part of the solution to environmental issues, and
- continue developing your "go-green campaign"
Average offline time: 10 min
Step 1. Taking a poll.
Step 2. Reviewing vocabulary.
Please click here to play a fun vocabulary game.
Step 3. Reading about what compost is and its importance.
After finishing the reading, you need to be able to answer the following questions:
a) What is organic material?
b) What do decomposers do?
c) How is humus produced?
d) What is compost?
e) What are some of the benefits of producing compost?
As you read these strategies might help you out to get the most out of the reading:
■ Before begining, think about what the purpose of this reading is.
■ Pay attention to the title, subheadings, and pictures.
■ Take notes as you read.
■ If you don't understand a word look it up on a dictionary or guess its meaning by analyzing the complete sentence.
Hands on reading :)
Step 4. Checking understanding.
Please click here to take a short test about the reading you just did.
Step 5. Finding out more information about the topic.
Check one of these three sites and write down on your notebook useful information regarding composting. You will use these ideas in Step 6.Step 6. Writing together.
We will use PrimaryPad to share our ideas about composting and write together a newspaper article. Each one of you should write at least 40 words. Before starting consider the following points:
■ Assessment Criteria
■ Using PrimaryPad
■ If you have any further questions or experience any technological problems please send an email to abogoya@rochester.edu.co
