{"id":9819,"date":"2019-10-05T22:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plato-philosophy.org\/?p=9819&#038;post_type=teachertoolkit&#038;preview_id=9819"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:43:39","slug":"environmental-ethics-2","status":"publish","type":"teachertoolkit","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/teachertoolkit\/environmental-ethics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Ethics Using Hey, Little Ant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Environmental Ethics?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Environmental Ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the value of the environment and its non-human contents as well as their moral relationship to human beings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials Needed:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Hey, Little Ant <\/em>by Hannah Hoose and Phillip Hoose<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Activity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Warm-up discussion: Respect<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who or what do we respect?<\/li>\n<li>Do we respect people? Animals? Insects?<\/li>\n<li>How do we show our respect?<\/li>\n<li>Do we respect these people, animals, objects equally or in the same way?<\/li>\n<li>Are there things or beings we do not need to respect that deserve to be respected? Should we respect them? If so, how so?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After reading the book, you can take the students&#8217; questions or supplement with the questions on the &#8220;Discussion Questions&#8221; tab in this lesson plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post Reading Activity<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Give each student a plastic bag that contains a printed picture of an ant, spider, ladybug, and bee.\u00a0 (Alternatively, other pictures of animals may be provided.)<\/li>\n<li>Instructions to provide to students: Each of you has a bag that contains a printed picture of an ant, spider, ladybug, and bee. You can choose whether you want to squish the insects by ripping them up or not to squish by leaving the picture intact.<\/li>\n<li>Extend their thoughts on the topic.\n<ol>\n<li>In a classroom, continue the discussion with the new bugs and whether there are differences between how we treat different bugs and why. See more questions below.<\/li>\n<li>If this activity is for homework, give students a choice of questions and have them write down their reflections. Here are some suggested questions:\n<ol>\n<li>Did you choose to squish the bugs? And why? Do you think you did the right thing?<\/li>\n<li>Did you treat all of the bugs the same? Or did you treat them differently? What are your reasons for different treatment of the bugs? Do you think your treatment of them is fair?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever squished or harmed one of these bugs in the past? What did you do, and what were you thinking at that time? 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