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American Cleaning Institute: Information on Health and Safety
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Activity Description
This site offers a world of information about laundry and all types of cleaning tips, understanding products, sustainable cleaning as well as industry priorities. The example website includes a section called Cleaning Tips where you can apply learning to home, school, or work. "Information sheets" found in teacher resources are in a printable format such as PDF. The section on Soaps and Detergents History with a timeline offers another way to organize a lesson.
Preparation
- Preview the site.
- Check out the publications catalog to find topics to use as springboards for discussion or collaborative oral presentation or writing assignments.
- The Example Document, Cleaning Institute--Clean Living Summary sheet offers students a place to write a summary about one of the articles. Print or send the article to students digitally.
How-To
- Preview site with the students.
- Discuss topics available at the site.
- Assign small groups to study one of the topics and use the Example Document summary sheet to record what they learned.
- Groups can then present to the class.
Teacher Tips
The site may need prior class work with vocabulary. Have students make vocabulary lists of new words.
More Ways
The section Healthy Schools, Healthy People has information sheets, brochures, fact sheets and posters
Under Teacher Resources there is a fun lesson you could share with students to use with their children on the Art and Science of Bubbles
A publication catalog includes fact sheets on cleaning products, hygiene, against disease, asthma, prevent accidents and much more.
Program Areas
- ABE: Adult Basic Education
- ESL: English as a Second Language
- ASE: High School Diploma
Levels
- Intermediate
- High
- Intermediate High
- Advanced
Lesson Plan
Ask the question, What are all the things we clean in a day? Take two minutes to have students turn to their partners and make a list of five to ten examples. Share the list with the class
Why is it important that we clean and maintain a clean environment? Take two minutes to have students turn to their partners and discuss. Share as a class.
Introduce the American Cleaning Institute website. Notice the menu across the top: Cleaning Tips, Understanding Products, Sustainable Cleaning, Industry Priorities. Open several links showing examples of what is available. As pairs, have students explore the website. Find practical cleaning tips to share with the class. Take notes on the chosen tip, including key points. Gather the class to share cleaning tips.
As pairs, students select a topic at the website, American Cleaning Institute that interests them. Take notes on the topic. Prepare a summary of the topic. Use collaboration tools such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word
Student pairs use the website American Cleaning Institute to learn about cleaning tips. The class prepares a Google Slide Presentation or Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Each student pair creates one slide on the presentation. On the slide include an image, the cleaning tip they learned about, and the names of the student team members.
Each pair presents what they learned to the class using their slide. Encourage student pairs to answer questions asked by their classmates.
As part of the presentations, students evaluate each other's slides and presentations. Go over the rubric before the presentations. Discuss as a class, what makes a good presentation. Points to consider:
- Did they make eye contact with the audience
- Did they speak loud enough to be heard
- Did they include a graphic
- Were they able to answer students' questions
- any other presentation points you would like to include
Students take what they have learned and implement it in their homes.Begin the dicussion by sharing with their partners the responses they received. As a class, discuss what they taught and learned from others in their homes.
Documents
- Cleaning Institute Clean Living Summary.docx - Cleaning Institute Clean Living Summary
Subjects
- Language Arts - Reading
- Comprehension
- Language Arts - Writing
- Organization of Ideas
- Reading
- Consumer Skills
- Critical Thinking/Decision Making
- Health
- Writing
- Basic Sentences
- Paragraph Skills
Standards
- Reading
- CCR Anchor 1 - Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
- CCR Anchor 2 - Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
- CCR Anchor 4 - Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
- Writing
- CCR Anchor 2 - Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
- CCR Anchor 4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- Speaking and Listening
- CCR Anchor 2 - Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
- CCR Anchor 3 - Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
- CCR Anchor 4 - Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.