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\nGreen Buildings Virtual Tour\n

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\nYoung scholars fill out a worksheet after researching green buildings by taking a virtual tour. In this green buildings lesson plan, students use Google Earth to research green buildings.\n
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\n\"Going Green\": How We're Building a Better World\n

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\nStudents can learn about \"green\" building with these lessons and activities.\n
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\nWhat Makes a Building Green?\n

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\nStudents examine the concepts of green building used in constructing or renovating a building. They conduct an interview with someone who sells green materials, or designs or implements green building plans. They work in teams to...\n
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\nMATERIALS, Using What’s Local: Native Materials, Local Sources\n

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\nStudents consider the development of different societies. In this environmental building lesson, students consider local resources and how societies choose to use them. Students use their findings to design a 'green' building for use in...\n
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\nDesign a Green Rooftop Garden\n

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\nDesign and construct buildings with rooftop gardens. Junior engineers work in groups to build two buildings and then perform experiments to determine whether or not a garden affects the building's temperatures. They graph and interpret...\n
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\nGreen Building and Development\n

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\nIn this environment activity, students find the solutions to building an environmentally friendly home and they examine the long-terms costs associated with ownership.\n
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\nA Tour in Sustainability\n

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\nYoung scholars explore two LEED certified green buildings. They examine what is the LEED certification process and what constitutes a green building. They tour via the internet two LEED certified green buildings, while comparing and...\n
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\nWhat Makes a Home \"Energy Efficient\"?\n

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\nStudents research and report the costs and benefits of making their own homes more energy efficient. In this energy conservation lesson, students explore energy efficient technologies and design over several days. They complete a home...\n
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\n\"Greening\n\n
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\nGreening Your Middle School\n

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\nMiddle schoolers redesign their school to make it more energy efficient, and create a model of their design. Learners get together in groups of 5, and they take on the task of making their school more energy efficient. To do this, they...\n
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\n\"Energy\n\n
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\nEnergy Audit\n

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\nStudents collect data about energy usage and use mathematical calculations to analyze their data. In this energy conservation and statistics math lesson, students survey their homes to complete an energy usage worksheet. Students...\n
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\nHuman Impact on Ecosystems\n

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\nAn environmenta science unit includes three lessons plus a cumulative project covering the ecosystem. Scholars follow the history of the Ford Rouge Factory from its construction on wetlands and how it destroyed the...\n
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\nSustainability: Environmental Management and Responsible Manufacturing\n

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\nWhen you think about environmental sustainability, the Ford Motor Company probably isn't the first company to come to mind. A four-lesson unit introduces learners to the idea of sustainability and environmental stewardship. It describes...\n
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\nDraft-O-Meter\n

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\nStudents explore where there are drafts in their homes.  In this waste reduction lesson, students experiment with a students made draft-o-meter and record drafts on a worksheet.\n
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\n\"Water\n\n
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\nWater Meter Reader\n

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\nJunior high schoolers learn how to read a water meter, track their family water usage, and discuss the amount in class with other pupils. They will interpret real-world data and graph it. It is ideal for increasing awareness and...\n
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\nExtractive Industries\n

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\nHere is a chance for environmental studies classes to take a critical look at crises occurring around the globe by reading articles and viewing video clips. The human activities under scrutiny are the extraction of oil, logging, and...\n
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\nHow green is your school?\n

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\nLearners read about Sidwell Friends School and the Green School concept and develop coverage for their student media. They employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to...\n
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\nHow green is your school?\n

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\nYoung scholars read about Sidwell Friends School and the Green School concept. They develop coverage for their student media. Students interview administrators, janitors, teachers and young scholars. They present findings to the class.\n
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\n\"Decision\n\n
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\nDecision Making a Mock Town Meeting on a Proposed Tank Farm\n

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\nStudents identify the potential hazards to the water supply. In this ecology lesson, students role play a town hall meeting to discuss the proposal of a storage tank construction in their place. They present their arguments and...\n
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\nU.s. Green Building Council: Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design\n

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\nLEED is a program for green building certification. Buildings are rated on a points system in one of five categories, including building design and construction, interior design and construction, building operations and maintenance,...\n
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\nCalifornia Academy of Sciences: Green Building and Operations\n

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\nLearn about the California Academy of Sciences building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano.\n
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\nU.s. Green Building Council: Green School Buildings\n

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\nFind out what makes a building green. Featured resources provide information on exactly why green schools make for better students and teachers. Find out ways to become involved in the process of becoming green.\n
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\nScience Friday: Green Building\n

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\nA talk with the architect of Washington University's Tyson Living Learning Center, an environmentally sustainable building. Aired Mar. 12, 2010. [17:47] Links to a video about three minutes long.\n
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\nNasa: Climate Kids: Green Building Contractor\n

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\nThis conversation with Blaine Rowland highlights the work that goes into building green and the benefits of this practice.\n
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\nBuilding Green\n

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