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Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint: Your Footprint At Home Gr. 5-8

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Your Footprint At Home cover, a chapter slice from the Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint series, item CCP5778-2
Chapter slice cover page
Critical thinking skills chart matching Bloom's levels 1–6 to the unit's seven readings and hands-on activities
Teacher guide skills chart for the full unit
Contents: teacher guide, Your Footprint At Home reading, carbon footprint calculator, quiz and answer key
Table of contents listing pages 4–24
Assessment rubric scoring understanding, analysis, creativity and own interests at levels 1–4, with next steps
Teacher assessment rubric for student work
Teacher guide introduction on climate change, how passages, before and after you read pages and the answer key work
Teacher guide: introduction and organization
Bloom's Taxonomy six levels of thinking, plus a vocabulary list: atom, carbon footprint, kilowatt-hours and 27 more
Teacher guide: Bloom's levels and unit vocabulary
Before You Read: 5 true/false items on home energy, then multiple choice on kilowatt-hours, fossil fuels and CO2
Pre-reading questions for the home footprint reading
Reading passage part 1: home energy sources, kWh and therms, with an average US household energy use pie chart
Page 1 of the two-page reading passage
Reading passage part 2: direct vs. indirect footprint and ways to cut it, like using a clothesline and full loads
Page 2 of the reading passage, with reduction tips
After You Read: match six appliances to ways to cut their footprint, plus 5 true/false items on the reading
Follow-up questions after the reading
Attributes
Subject

Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Science

Grades

Grade 5, 6, 7, 8

Types

Teacher Tools, Lesson Plans

File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
Classroom Complete Press
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About This Product

Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint: Your Footprint At Home Gr. 5-8

Product Description:

A unique teaching resource aimed at educating students about global climate change, its effects and the role humans play in it. This particular resource is a slice from "Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint" named "Your Footprint At Home Gr. 5-8".

Main Features:
  • Explanations on greenhouse effect in extensive detail.
  • Promotes critical thinking by making students evaluate everyday energy consumption.
  • Briefs upon how our carbon footprints persist even after waste disposal.
  • Inspires change with ways to implement environmentally friendly resources in daily routines.

Bonus Benefits:

  • We provide tools such as graphic organizers to facilitate note-taking ability and creative mapping for better engagement.
  • Your students get access to exciting educational games including crosswords and word searches enhancing interactive learning experience!
Educator's Special - An Effective Comprehension Quiz : A comprehension quiz allows educators to measure understanding levels of their students with ease.

*Throwable Answer Key*

: An added token along serving to verify answers accuracy assuring an all-around learning experience.
Our well-crafted product comes ready-to-use, and it aligns perfectly with Bloom’s Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives,. Recommended Grades: 5 through 8.

This resource includes 30-pages—all available in a print-friendly PDF format—a fitting addition for teachers seeking engaging ways of conveying environmental science lessons—ideal for whole group lessons, small group activities or even homework assignments! Perfectly suitable for various teaching settings, built with public school teachers and homeschooled students in mind.

What's Included

1 PDF with 30 ready to print pages

Resource Tags

carbon footprint environmental science reading passage science quiz

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