ENVIRONMENTAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF WORKING FROM HOME - Distance Learning

- Grades
- Grades 7–10, Middle School, High School
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Science
- Topic
- tags: telecommuting, green city development
- Preparation
- Print ready
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This is an online video-based lesson plan developed to engage educators and students in understanding the transformative implications of remote working globally. The study tool delves into how teleworking is spawned as a revolution that intrigues environmentalists seeing it as a platform for urban development, reducing carbon emissions, and fostering communal living.
The resource encourages students to discern the many dimensions of this global shift:
- Understanding that reduced driving implies lower carbon emissions.
- Fathoming employees' freedom to work from anywhere.
- Visioning cities transforming into greener habitats.
- Gauging better communal experiences due to work evolution.
- Evaluating if cost-saving by businesses via remote working could mean higher pay for workers.
Note:
This digital learning package caters ideally to Grade 7-10 Environmental Science students. However, given its broad topic range, it can also benefit larger audiences. The module incorporates approximately a half-hour teaching slot filled with healthy discussions that are easily adaptable within regular classroom intervals or flexibly set aside as homework tasks.
Digital PDF Layout:
The content comes formatted in fillable PDF worksheets facilitating completely paperless classrooms or options for easy printing depending on different classroom settings requirements. The centerpiece ensuring active learner engagement is an instantly accessible hyperlinked (6 minutes) video crisply discussing these dynamic shifts reshaping our world's perspective about work recently. Accompanying this complete resource offering is an answer key serving as an essential assistance tool enabling educators’ seamless transition while delivering courses keeping them at the forefront all the time. To put it succinctly, this learning asset is bundled comprehensively in ZIP format containing three loaded PDFs that can be easily accessed anytime.
Summary:
This educational tool functions as a thought-stimulating agent fostering deep contemplation regarding swiftly changing paradigms not just relevant within Environmental Science curriculum confines but also aligning with real-world transformations to generate a significant learning impact.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Explain environmental and psychological effects of remote work presented in a video
- Support an opinion about working from home in an essay
Teaching tips
- The questions follow an externally hosted video and the Google copy opens from a link, so students need internet access and a Google account.
Skills covered
- Video comprehension — answering questions about the video's main points
- Organizing information — filling in a comparison table from the video
No reviews yet
Downloaded this resource? Tell other teachers how it went.
Resource details
Concepts & topics
Core concepts
- Telecommuting
- Remote work
- Environmental impact
- Opinion writing
Explore related searches
More to explore









