Materials:  Answers to the Throw Away Quiz transparency, Landfill Factoids transparency   and of world populations growth.

Objectives: 1.  Students will justify their predictions on the Throw Away Quiz.
2.  Students will recognize facts of landfills and amounts of pollution they   contain.
3.  Students will predict and write the effects of pollution in years to come.
4.  Students will develop a plan on ways to reduce land pollution.

Procedures: 1.  Students will be given the answers to the Throw Away quiz by volunteering   their answers, being shown the correct answers and having a class discussion   on why. (5 minutes)
2.  Students will be asked to predict answers to questions based of the landfill   factoid sheet on a scrap paper. (1. How many pounds of solid waste does a   college students produce? (2. How many 1,000 landfill do you think the U.S.   had in 1992? (3.  Make a bar graph demonstrating these figures (write on the   board) 67% in 1992, 81% in 1980, and 62% in 1960. The answers to these   questions will be given by various volunteers and the graph will be drawn on   the board by a volunteer.  Then the answers will be shown on the overhead.
3.  The transparency of world population will be shown.  The teacher will read   highlighted sections from Land Pollution(sheet included).  Based on this    information, students will write their predictions of what will happen to the   world's waste as the population continues to increase.  They will also write   what can be done to stop this problem. (15 minutes)
 

Assessment: 1.  Students will be given a check plus, check minus, or check on their writings   of predictions and ways to solve the pollution problem.  Students will need to   come up with realistic ideas and use explanations for their solutions.

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