Nuestro Medio Ambiente
Our Environment
Environmental Spanish with local stakes: problems, causes, and solutions — se debe, hay que — applied to the student’s own street, school, and watershed.
Unit objectives
- Describe environmental problems and causes
- Propose solutions with se debe / hay que
- Interpret an authentic environmental campaign
- Run a one-week personal impact experiment
Can-Do targets
- I can describe an environmental problem and its causes.
- I can propose solutions using impersonal expressions.
- I can understand a real environmental campaign.
Vocabulary scope
el medio ambiente, la contaminación, la basura, reciclar, reducir, el cambio climático, se debe, hay que, el impacto, cuidar
How this unit builds
Grade 4’s habitats gain agency: from describing nature to defending it. Impersonal obligation (hay que) extends the modal ladder built since Grade 5.
What this unit will contain
Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.
Los problemas — naming what’s wrong
Las soluciones — hay que
La campaña — authentic materials
Mi experimento — the impact week
IPA: Medio ambiente
Costa Rica’s big bet
Costa Rica runs on ~99% renewable electricity and reforested a deforested nation within a generation — proof that environmental stories can bend. Students study how they did it.