Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint: A Footprint On Your Dinner Plate Gr. 5-8
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Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint: A Footprint On Your Dinner Plate Gr. 5-8
Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint: A Footprint On Your Dinner Plate Gr. 5-8 is an impactful teaching resource designed for grades 5 to 8. It guides students through the global issue of climate change, illustrating the human influences and their correlated environmental impacts.
Main Features:- Designed in consideration of Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives
- An integrative blend of scientific theory and practical application
- A deep dive into the carbon footprints associated with our food consumption patterns
The resource primes students with extensive information about the greenhouse effect - a critical background to comprehend how typical human actions can augment global warming. It then explores domestic energy use, specifically in kitchen scenarios.
Kitchen to Farm Journey:
New insights are explored about each step involved in transporting food from farm fields up to your dinner plates - pointing out every step that broadens carbon footprints along this journey.
Sustainable Practices Discussion:Emphasizing contrasting methods used in sustainable agricultural practices versus conventional ones.
Travel & Waste Management Components:
Exploring feasible ways of embedding eco-friendly norms into community life encourages social contract development. This offers engaging group collaboration opportunities or homework assignments. Downloadable Resource:
This teaching resource comes in a convenient downloadable PDF format. Loaded with 30 pages of printable material including graphic organizers, crossword puzzles, comprehension quizzes (with answer keys), and word searches, it makes the learning process interactive yet straightforward.
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1 PDF with 30 ready to print pages
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