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- Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8
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Engage students in global climate change by personalizing their own carbon footprint. Our resource introduces students to the effects of global climate change and its human-related causes. Start with a detailed look at the greenhouse effect. Identify all the ways a kitchen uses energy. Break down the steps involved with farm to table and how each step adds to the carbon footprint. Calculate your travel footprint and learn ways to help reduce it. Understand that your carbon footprint doesn't lessen after throwing things out. Look at the bigger picture and calculate how your own carbon footprint fits with the community. Help reduce the carbon footprint by brainstorming ways to make environmentally-friendly rules part of the social contract. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8
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Bring climate change to the classroom by teaching students about their school's carbon footprint. Our resource helps students determine their school's carbon footprint and what they can do to make it smaller. Identify fossil fuels used at school and how they make your life more convenient. Brainstorm ways to reduce energy used in your school. Recognize the benefits of adding idle-free zones to your school. Explore events in the history of a slice of bread that caused the emission of greenhouse gases. Calculate the amount of carbon dioxide trees would remove from the atmosphere if they were planted around the perimeter of your school. Complete a project that will lead to a reduced school footprint. Find out how carbon offsets help reduce a school's carbon footprint. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Reducing Your Community's Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8
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Encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their community's carbon footprint. Our resource illustrates the causes and effects of global climate change on communities and habitats. Identify the cause and effect events between a commuter driving to work and a distant island becoming smaller. Explore the evolution of living in cities to moving to the suburbs and how this affected a community's travel footprint. Find out how Cuba transformed their farming system to one that uses no fossil fuels in just 10 years. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Brainstorm what recycled items will become in their next life. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Explore ways in which you can help your community see a green future. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Carbon Footprint Big Book Gr. 5-8
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Students will learn how they can improve the planet with our Carbon Footprint 3-book BUNDLE. Start engaging students in global climate change by personalizing their Own Carbon Footprint. Identify all the ways a kitchen uses energy. Calculate your travel footprint and learn ways to help reduce it. Next, bring climate change to the classroom by teaching students about their School's Carbon Footprint. Recognize the benefits of adding idle-free zones to your school. Find out how carbon offsets help reduce a school's carbon footprint. Finally, encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their Community's Carbon Footprint. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Each concept is paired with a carbon footprint calculator. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
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