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Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint: A Footprint On Your Dinner Plate Gr. 5-8

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A Footprint On Your Dinner Plate cover, a Chapter Slice from the Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint series
Cover of the dinner plate chapter slice
Critical thinking skills chart linking Bloom's six levels to seven reading topics and the hands-on activities
Skills chart for the full carbon footprint unit
Contents: teacher guide, the Dinner Plate reading on page 7, organizer, calculator, crossword, quiz and answer key
Table of contents for this chapter slice
Assessment rubric rating understanding, analysis, creativity and own interests at Levels 1 to 4
Teacher guide rubric for grading student work
Teacher guide intro on carbon footprints, how reading passages and activities are organized, and picture cues
Teacher guide introduction and organization notes
Bloom's Taxonomy six levels of thinking pyramid and vocabulary list: atom, carbon cycle, methane, therm and more
Bloom's Taxonomy overview and unit vocabulary
Before You Read: six true-or-false food statements and word bank: fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, seasonal
Before You Read page for the dinner plate passage
Reading passage part 1: farming makes about 10% of the US carbon footprint; food travels 1,500 miles on average
Part 1 of the 2-page reading passage
Reading passage part 2: packaging, organic food, meat vs. vegetarian diets, home gardens, and a STOP question
Part 2 of the passage, with a STOP check-in question
After You Read: multiple-choice questions on the food footprint and ordering six farm-to-table steps for meat
After You Read comprehension page
Attributes
Subject

Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Science

Grades

Grade 5, 6, 7, 8

Types

Teacher Tools, Lesson Plans

File

PDF

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About This Product

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:

  • A travel footprint calculator is included for students to compute their own travel-related carbon emission situations.
  • An elaboration on waste management dynamics post-consumption stage also forms a key part of this resource, instilling an essential sense of responsibility in students beyond just safe disposal ethics.
    • Creative Exercise for Community Eco-friendly Practices:
    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.

    What's Included

    1 PDF with 30 ready to print pages

    Resource Tags

    carbon footprint agriculture environment graphic organizers electricity

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