The+Sea,+the+Storm,+and+the+Mangrove+Tangle+Reinforcing+Activity

__**Objectives:**__ The students will be able to explain how humans relied on the Mangrove tree and relate the reliance on the environment to current events.

__**Materials Required:**__ -The book,//The Sea, The Storm, and The Mangrove Tangle// -Overhead projector -Current articles/newspapers for each group

__**Procedure:**__ //Reading the book and discussion// -Preview the book by going over new vocabulary from the book such as mangrove and propagule. -Read aloud //The Sea, The Storm, and The Mangrove Tangle// to the class. -Place the map from the resource section of the the book, on the overhead so that the students can see where mangrove trees grow and point out the fact that there are even some in the United States. -Do a guided discussion with the whole class on the importance of the mangrove tangle in the book. -Have students discuss what would have happened if the fishermen would have happened during the hurricane if the fishermen decided to cut down the mangrove tree. -Make a list on the board of all of the livings things that relied on the mangrove tangle in the book. -Then, make a list of all of the things that we as humans need in order to survive (trees, warmth, air, food, water, etc).

//Activity// -Have the students each bring in a current online or newspaper article that has to do with the physical environment influencing human activities and that alter the physical environment. -Examples of such articles could be about global warming, deforestation, recycling, etc. -Group the kids into 3 or 4 students and have them summarize their articles to one another. -Then the students will choose one article they found to be the most influential to our environment and/or humans. -Next the groups will write a three-paragraph reflection together. -The first paragraph is a summary of the article, the second paragraph explains how the issue in their article affects or is affected by humans, and the last paragraph is a connection to the article to //The Sea, The Storm, and The Mangrove Tangle//. -The students will then present their article to class and highlight the important parts.

__**Other Ohio Standards:**__ Grade 4 Geography, Human Systems 12. People have modified the environment since prehistoric times. There are both positive and negative consequences for modifying the environment in Ohio and the United States.