Topic: Why do we protect nature?

Target group

High school / technical school student

Core curriculum

General requirements

V. Reasoning and applying the acquired knowledge to solving biological problems. Pupil:

1. interprets information and explains causal relationships between processes and phenomena, formulates conclusions.

Specific requirements

XI. Biodiversity, its threats and protection. Pupil:

3. shows the influence of human activity (intensification of agriculture, urbanization, industrialization, development of communication and tourism) on biodiversity.

General aim of education

The students discuss the main motives and legal basis for nature conservation in Poland.

Key competences

• communication in foreign languages;

• digital competence;

• learning to learn.

Criteria for success
The student will learn:

• to indicate the aims of nature conservation listed in the Polish Nature Conservation Act;

• to define the nature conservation specified in the Polish Nature Conservation Act;

• to indicate and describe the reasons for protecting nature.

Methods/techniques

• expository

  • talk.

• activating

  • discussion;

  • brainstorming.

• programmed

  • with computer;

  • with e‑textbook.

• practical

  • exercices concerned.

Forms of work

• individual activity;

• activity in pairs;

• activity in groups;

• collective activity.

Teaching aids

• e‑textbook;

• notebook and crayons/felt‑tip pens;

• interactive whiteboard, tablets/computers.

Lesson plan overview

Before classes

• The teacher instructs students to familiarize themselves with the content of the abstract and pay special attention to the definition of nature protection in the Polish Nature Conservation Act of April 16, 2004, as well as to the reasons of nature conservation..

Introduction

• The teacher explains the aim of the lesson and together with students determines the success criteria to be achieved.

• The teacher writes the topic of the lesson on the blackboard or interactive whiteboard. Students write it in notebooks..

Realization

• The persons designated by the teacher discuss the following issues learned before the classes: nature protection in Poland; motives for nature conservation;.

• The teacher completes the students' statements and then discusses the themes of nature protection: existential, economic (economic), aesthetic, ethical, scientific.

• The teacher asks the students to vote in favor of each one of them in favor of nature protection resulting from their personal beliefs. The class together with the teacher counts the votes and then analyzes the results. Based on them, students, using the brainstorming method, develop proposals for activities aimed at educating the widest possible public in the area of the need to protect nature.

• Students, working individually or in pairs, carry out interactive exercises to check and consolidate knowledge learned during the lesson. Selected people discuss the correct solutions for interactive exercises. The teacher completes or corrects the statements of the proteges.

Summary

• At the end of the class, the teacher asks the students questions:

  • What did you find important and interesting in class?

  • What was easy and what was difficult?

  • How can you use the knowledge and skills you have gained today?

  Willing/selected students summarize the lesson.

Homework

• Listen to the abstract recording at home. Pay attention to pronunciation, accent and intonation. Learn to pronounce the words learned during the lesson.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Why do we protect nature?

The Polish Nature Conservation Act of 16 April 2004 defines the nature conservation as a set of actions aimed at the maintenance, the sustainable management and the recovery of resources, formations and elements of nature. Among them, there are:

• wild species of plants, animals and fungi, especially the protected ones;

• migratory animals;

• natural habitats (especially those of plants, animals and fungi endangered with extinction);

• animated, inanimate and forms of nature and fossilised remains of plants and animals;

• landscape;

• trees and the greenery landscape in towns and villages.

The Act also specifies the most important aims of nature conservation. These are:

1. maintenance of ecological processes and the stability of ecosystems;

2. conservation of biodiversity;

3. maintenance of the geological and paleontological heritage;

4. ensuring the continuity of species' existence, including plants, animals and fungi and their habitats, by means of their maintenance, or restoration of the proper state of nature conservation;

5. protection of trees and the greenery landscape in towns and villages;

6. maintenance or restoration of the proper protection of natural habitats and other resources, forms and elements of nature;

7. shaping of the proper attitude of people towards the nature conservation by means of education, explanation and promotion concerning the nature conservation.

There may be various reasons for which people undertake activities aimed at nature conservation. The nature abounds in non‑renewable and renewable resources, which we can use provided that we take care of them. Among the reasons for nature conservation, there are: existential, economic, aesthetic, ethical and scientific reasons.

• The nature conservation are all actions aimed at the maintenance of animated and inanimate nature in an unchanged state, the sustainable management of its resources and the provision of a possibility of their recovery.