Read the text from a coursebook on social sciences. How can you elicit information if you are teaching this part of the textbook? When you have finished, click below for some ideas.
Maybe the word “environment” makes you think of trees, mountains, animals, plants and rivers, or even clouds, rain and wind. These are examples of the natural environment. The natural environment is everything around us that was not created by humans. Perhaps you also think about things made by people, like towns, cities, roads and bridges. These are also examples of the environment. They are part of the human-made or “built” environment.
Click here for some ideas of how to elicit information from students
- Ask the students to give some examples of things that can be found in the natural environment.
- Write the word environment on the board and ask students to draw pictures connected to that word.
- Show pictures of trees, mountains, roads and bridges and ask students to classify which are human made and which are natural.