View largerPollution and conservation poster for kids
Describing kinds of pollution and ways communities protect resources
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Pollution and Conservation Worksheets
Kinds of pollution, choices that help or harm, how communities use science to protect resources, and designing a solution.
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Pollution and conservation
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View all 2 pagesHelping or harming the environment sort worksheet
Classifying human actions that help or harm Earth's resources
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How communities protect the Earth
View all 2 pagesPollution problems and solutions matching worksheet
Matching environmental problems to ways communities solve them
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View all 2 pagesThe river that caught Fire: pollution reading passage
Describing how a community used science and laws to clean up a polluted river
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2 pages41 KB
View all 2 pagesTrash audit bar graph Worksheet: reduce and recycle
Analyzing trash data to find ways to reduce waste
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2 pages38 KB
View all 2 pagesConserving resources Worksheet: which choice saves More?
Comparing choices that conserve water, energy and materials
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2 pages38 KB
Design and review
View largerDesign a Solution: environmental problem worksheet
Defining a design problem and comparing solutions that protect the environment
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View all 2 pagesPollution and conservation vocabulary worksheet
Using vocabulary about pollution and conservation
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View all 2 pagesPollution and conservation quiz for 5th grade
Reviewing pollution and ways communities protect resources
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About these pollution and conservation worksheets
Pollution is anything harmful people add to the air, water or land. Conservation means using resources wisely so they last. Communities use science to find problems and choose solutions, from cleaning up rivers to recycling programs.
These pollution and conservation worksheets begin with a poster and a help-or-harm sort. Children match problems to community solutions, read how the Cuyahoga River was cleaned up, read a trash audit graph, compare everyday choices and design their own solution with criteria and constraints.
Every page is black and white, prints on US Letter or A4, and every page with right answers has an answer key on page 2.
Standards
NGSS 5-ESS3-1Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.4Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
How to use them
- Start with the poster. Ask children to name one kind of pollution they have seen.
- Do a real trash audit of the classroom for one day before the graph page.
- Read the Cuyahoga River passage and ask what science and laws each did.
- Finish with the design a solution page.
Teaching tips
- Keep the focus on what individuals and communities can do, and on how science helps them decide.
- Every solution has costs and benefits; the design page asks children to compare two ideas.
- The trash audit numbers are made-up practice data.
Questions teachers and parents ask
What are the main kinds of pollution?
Air pollution (smoke and gases), water pollution (trash, oil, chemicals and fertilizer in water) and land pollution (litter, landfills and chemicals in soil).
How can kids help conserve resources?
Turn off water and lights, reuse containers, recycle and compost, walk or bike for short trips, and help with cleanups.
How do communities protect the environment?
They test air and water, pass laws such as the Clean Water Act, build treatment plants, plant trees along streams and run recycling programs.