5. Managing Resources Day#2. Lesson plan
Teaching AICE Environmental Management can be challenging, especially when aiming to achieve high exam passing rates. With the right strategies and engaging lesson plans, you can help your students understand complex concepts and excel in their exams. This blog post will focus on how to outline the impacts of food insecurity and describe and evaluate strategies for managing food security, providing you with practical tips to enhance your teaching methods.
Objectives
- 5.1 Food security-cont.
- outline the impacts of food insecurity
- describe and evaluate strategies for managing food security
Vocabulary
- Homogeneous: Describing things of the same kind, e.g., the crops produced by a farmer may be all of the same kind
- Malnutrition: Lack of adequate nutrition, caused by not having a balanced diet, or enough to eat
- Starvation: Suffering or death caused by lack of food
- Famine: The extreme scarcity of food
- Genetically modified crops: Foods derived from organisms in which DNA has been changed by humans
- Selective breeding: When humans grow plants and animals for specific characteristics, e.g., high yields or drought tolerance
- Irrigation: the supply of water to land or crops to help plants grow
- Fertilizer: a chemical or natural product that can be added to soils to increase the nutrients available for plants.
Bellringer
- Bellringer#2
- Alternative: How are food insecurity and malnutrition connected?
Lesson Outline
Hook
- Start your lesson with a thought-provoking question to capture your students’ attention: “What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and had no access to food?” This question sets the stage for discussing food insecurity and its impacts, making the topic relatable and urgent for students.
Instruction
- Lecture/Notes – Lecture/Notes (PPT – slides 6-17)
- Discuss the effects/impacts of food insecurity on individuals, communities, and countries, including malnutrition, health issues, social unrest, and economic instability. (slide 6 of PowerPoint)
- Present strategies for managing food insecurity such as: using GMO’s (describe advantages and disadvantages of GMO’s), control plant growth limiting factors such as water (through irrigation) and the lack of nutrients (fertilizers), increase productivity, improve transportation of food, hydroponics and aquaponics. (slides 7-17 of PowerPoint)
- Small group activity – The cost of a plate of food Activity (5.1)
- Have students will use the data they collected the day before for this activity.
- Divide students into small groups and provide them with computers and a handout of the activity. If you are interested, the activity can be found HERE.
- Students record all the food items they had yesterday in Data Table 1 and calculate the cost and number of calories of their food for one day.
- Have students share their findings with the class.
- Students work on choosing food items for a day using a set budget. This activity sparks engaging conversations.
- Second part of the activity has students graph data – percent of income people pay for a basic plate of food in different countries.
- Exit ticket
- If you opt to have students complete their notes using the Student Guided Notes format during your lecture, then use the bellringer as the exit ticket activity in class.
- If you opt to have students complete their notes using the Student Guided Notes format at home (homework), then use the following exit ticket activity:
- Students answer the analysis questions.
By incorporating these strategies into your AICE Environmental Management lessons, you can create an engaging and informative learning environment that helps your students better understand the complexities of food insecurity and management strategies. These methods will not only improve their exam performance but also inspire them to think critically about global environmental issues.
Homework
- The sole homework task assigned to my students revolves around meticulously transcribing notes in the Student Guided Notes format. They meticulously replicate content by hand from the Lecture/Notes (PPT – slides 18-24) presentation.
- This approach ensures that during class time, while I continue to deliver lectures and expound on topics, students have their notes already compiled. Consequently, they can actively engage, ask questions, and delve deeper into understanding rather than merely being preoccupied with note-taking. This strategy efficiently liberates valuable class time, allowing for engaging activities and practice Cambridge style questions.
Implement these teaching strategies in your classroom and share your experiences in the comments below. Together, we can elevate the quality of AICE Environmental Management education and help our students succeed in their exams and beyond.
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