Grade 3 Science TEKS 3.11C:Conserve Natural Resources

Learning Target: I can name ways to conserve natural resources by reducing, reusing, and recycling.

Focuses On:

• Ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle natural resources.

Builds On:

This is students' first introduction to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Next Level:

4.11B:

explain the critical role of energy resources to modern life and how conservation, disposal, and recycling of natural resources impact the environment

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This lesson is designed to support students' understanding of what it means to reduce, reuse, and recycle natural resources.

The lesson goes through each of the three conservation methods in depth.

This is the first time students are introduced to the terms reduce, reuse, and recycle. In this lesson, they focus specifically on natural resources, which prepares them for learning about ways to conserve natural energy resources in standard 4.11B.