06c..Dr+Seuss+Info

Dr. Seuss


 * Book: The Lorax**
 * Content area: Science**
 * Content Objectives:**
 * Language Objectives:**
 * Language Objectives:**

Essential Question: Who's responsiility is it to protect the environment?


 * Introduce Vocabulary:**
 * **Nonsense words**
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 * **Grickle-Grass**
 * **Lerkim**
 * **miff-muffered**
 * **moof**
 * **Snuvv**
 * **gruvulous**
 * **Slupp**
 * **snergelly**
 * **Swomee-Swans**
 * **Truffula**
 * **rippulous**
 * **tufts**
 * **ga-Zump**
 * **Thneed**
 * **Once-ler**
 * **Bar-ba-loots**
 * **snuffled**
 * **snargled**
 * **cruffulous**
 * **smorgulous**
 * **gluppity-glupp**
 * **gummed**
 * **Science Vocabulary**
 * **Lorax**
 * **pond**
 * **clouds**
 * **tree**
 * **whiffed**
 * **smog**
 * **Word Family**
 * **ish**
 * **shortish**
 * **oldish**
 * **brownish**
 * **sharpish**
 * **Story Vocabulary**
 * **hacking**
 * **crummies**
 * **tummies**
 * **biggered**
 * **nuisance**
 * **gripes**
 * **dreary**
 * **weary**
 * **smeary**
 * **woefully**
 * **heisted**
 * **unless**
 * **unless**


 * Make Connections to the Environment**
 * Importance of Trees**
 * Rainforest**
 * Depend on forests for their water,
 * Fuel or livelihoods.
 * At the current rate of deforestation, tropical rain forests will virtually disappear as functioning ecosystems within 100 years. **Deforestation also degrades important natural resources, like supplies of clean fresh water. In addition, the massive burning of forests can lead to severe air pollution both locally and thousands of miles away.**
 * Up to 50 percent of pharmaceuticals on the market today have an origin in natural products**, and 42 percent of the top 25 selling drugs worldwide are derived from natural products.**
 * Indigenous areas prevent deforestation better than other types of protected areas.
 * Recycling**
 * Earth Day - April**


 * Reading Strategies**
 * **Make Connections Text to World, Text to Media**
 * **Picture Walk for meaning**
 * **Make Predictions**
 * **Simple Inferences based on pictures**
 * **Using Questioning before, during and after**
 * Character Traits**


 * Resources**

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Lorax for Sustainability: [] @http://www.ie.unc.edu/erp/resources/Lorax_and_Sustainable_Development.pdf
 * Tropical forests cover only 12 percent of the planet but are home to more than one-half of the Earth’s known plants and animal species.
 * [|South American] forests are home to the greatest plant biodiversity in the world, and are the source of essential pharmaceutical ingredients.
 * Large tracts of the world’s remaining forests are on indigenous lands, and a 2009 study found
 * Large tracts of the world’s remaining forests are on indigenous lands, and a 2009 study found

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