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Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint: How To Make Your Footprint Smaller And Why You Should Gr. 5-8

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Chapter slice cover: How To Make Your Footprint Smaller And Why You Should, about reducing carbon footprints
Cover of the carbon footprint chapter slice
Critical thinking reference maps carbon footprint readings and hands-on activities to six Bloom's levels
Critical thinking skills reference for the resource
Contents lists teacher guidance, the selected chapter, footprint calculators, puzzles, quiz, and answer key
Contents identifying the chapter and support materials
Assessment rubric rates understanding, analysis, creativity, and application of interests across four levels
Four-level rubric for assessing student work
Teacher guide explains before-and-after reading activities, hands-on work, assessment, and answer key use
Teacher introduction and resource organization guide
Teacher reference explains Bloom's six thinking levels and lists vocabulary such as carbon footprint and methane
Bloom's taxonomy guidance and vocabulary reference
Before-reading activity sorts eight actions into Home, Food, Travel, or Everything Else and asks two questions
Before-reading classification and multiple-choice activity
Reading passage introduces the social contract and argues that avoiding unnecessary CO2 emissions should be normal
First reading page: social contracts and emissions
Reading continuation asks students to define social contract and lists footprint reductions for home, food, travel
Second reading page: ways to reduce carbon footprints
After-reading check has five true-or-false statements and three multiple-choice questions on carbon footprints
After-reading true-or-false and multiple-choice check
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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Author
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About This Product

Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint: How To Make Your Own Footprint Smaller and Why You Should Gr. 5-8

A comprehensive educational digital resource aimed at teaching students of grades 5 to 8 about climate change, its causes and their own environmental impact.

The Greenhouse Effect

This tool assists in teaching students about the greenhouse effect, exposing them to its causes and outcomes. It encourages critical thinking by identifying energy consumption in a common household space – such as the kitchen.

Farm to Table Carbon Output

An overview of all steps involved in farm-to-table food production—building connections between everyday actions and global carbon output.

Travel-Evoked Carbon Footprint

  • Understand how modes of travel contribute heavily to one's carbon footprint.
  • A provision for tools that calculate learners' travel footprints with suggestions on reducing the impact..

Waste Management vs Recycling

> "Recycling isn't always enough", hence, this resource provides practical ways learners can manage their waste footprints.

Moulding Environmentally-Conscious Communities

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Influencial materials equipping educators to help students understand their place within an environmentally oriented society encouraging them towards contributing actively.

Bonus Resource: This digital guide challenges students problem-solving skills via examples showing how 'green' rules can be part of social contracts effectively reducing a shared carbon footprint.
  1. Pdf based format convenient for use on any device.
  2. Bloom's Taxonomy framed graphic organizers along with STEAM focused materials – Underlining environmental science.
  3. An interactive carbon footprint calculator
  4. Puzzles and games like a word search game and crossword puzzle.
  5. A comprehension quiz with an answer key to assess understanding.

Note: This resource is curated specifically for science teachers, homeschooling educators. It can be used flexibly in full-classroom sessions or assigned as smaller group activities such as homework projects.

You need the right tool for teaching students their relationship with the environment? Look no further because "Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint: How To Make Your Own Footprint Smaller" is available just for you!

What's Included

1 PDF with 30 ready to print pages

Resource Tags

science workbook reading passage environmental carbon footprint science assessment

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