Lesson Package | Think Earth Third Grade Unit

The Trashbot curriculum focuses on creating less pollution. Students learn that waste from the production, distribution, consumption, and disposal of products can pollute our land, water, and air.

In the Grade 3 unit, students are introduced to pollution in the environment:
• where pollution comes from
• what effects pollution has
• what we can do to create less pollution

How to Teach Think Earth

Download all the materials onto your computer OR use them directly from the website.

The Teacher’s Guide contains links to all the materials, so if using the Guide online, you can access the materials directly as you are teaching.

The Posters and Practice Exercises can be used in any of the following ways:
• Project pages directly from a computer with a projector or smartboard.
• Print pages and display them with a document camera.
• Load pages onto students’ tablets or computers.
• Print and distribute pages to students.

The Videos and Songs can be used in any of the following ways:
• Stream from this page to project video and play audio.
• Download the files and play from your computer.
• Load the files onto students’ tablets or computers, or provide links for streaming.

Think Earth Third Grade Unit Materials

PDFs

Teacher's Guide
Our Community Color Poster
Our Community Black & White Poster
Pretest
Posttest
Practice Exercise 1
Practice Exercise 2
Family Activity Sheet
Trashbot Story Cards
A Little Means a Lot Story Cards
Think Earth Poster

Videos

Think Earth Narrated
Think Earth Narrated (CC)
Think Earth Unnarrated
Story: Trashbot
Story: Trashbot (CC)
Story: A Little Means a Lot
Story: A Little Means a Lot (CC)

Songs

Think Earth Vocal
Think Earth Instrumental

Curriculum Resources

Standards Correlations
Summary of Unit Objectives
Literature Recommendations

Download All Unit Materials

Grade 3 Unit Materials (zip, 91mb)
Think Earth Videos (zip, ~103mb)