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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Kind of Footprint? Carbon Footprint

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students determine their carbon footprints by answering questions about their everyday lifestyle choices. Then they engineer plans to reduce them. Students learn about their personal impacts on global climate change and how they can help...
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Carbon Footprint : Carbon Footprint Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out your carbon footprint with this easy-to-use calculator. See the difference in your carbon emissions depending on which mode of transportation you use.
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Other

Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Green Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Carbon Footprint, Ltd. offers an overview of renewable energy and its use will help reduce your carbon footprint.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Calculation of Your Personal Carbon Footprint

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This worksheet walks the young scholars through the steps for calculating their personal carbon footprint. Additionally it helps them consider options for reducing their carbon footprint and the potential costs of those reductions.
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Other

Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Recycling

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to see why recycling is so important. Learn how to reduce and reuse products to help lower your carbon footprint.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Carbon Footprint Exercise

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A three-step assignment for students in introductory geoscience that asks them to calculate their carbon footprint during one specific week. The goal of the assignment is to increase student awareness of the various sources of energy...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Estimating Our Carbon Footprint

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a three-part algebra activity focusing on food-related carbon dioxide emissions.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Footprint

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students investigate how much greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide and methane) their family releases into the atmosphere each year and relate it to climate change. To address this, students use the Environmental Protection...
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Other

World Land Trust: Personal Carbon Balanced Calculators

For Students 9th - 10th
You will find a series of calculators here for exploring what your carbon footprint on the Earth is, based on your use of air travel, your regular means of transportation, your household habits, and fixed carbon dioxide emissions for the...
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Other

Scic: Ecological Footprints From Around the World [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, learners will discover their own ecological footprint and will be able to compare it to that of people in various developing countries. They will also explore how their actions can impact the earth.
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Nature Conservancy

Nature Conservancy: Carbon Footprint Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Calculate personal and family carbon footprints using this interactive site. Lots of information and links that focus on the preservation of animals, plants, and natural communities.
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Other

Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Around Your Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to reduce your carbon footprint around your home by reducing your energy usage and heat loss.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Carbon Calculator Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this learning activity, students use a web-based carbon calculator to determine their carbon footprint on the basis of their personal and household habits and choices. Students identify which personal activities and household choices...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Population Growth, Ecological Footprints, and Overshoot

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this three-part activity, learners apply linear, exponential, and rational functions to explore past and projected U.S. population growth, carbon footprint trend, ecological overshoot, and effectiveness of hypothetical carbon dioxide...
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Best Foot Forward: Ecological Footprint Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Measure your ecological footprint, and see how many land and resources you use in your everyday life. Find out how your choices affect the natural world, and then find ways to make changes in your lifestyle to help the environment.
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Carbon Footprint: Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why the overall climate is changing due to global warming. Also, see what will happen if humans do nothing to stop this from happening.
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PBS

Nova: The Big Energy Gamble

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students conduct an energy audit to determine how much carbon dioxide their family is producing, and then make recommendations for lowering their family's carbon footprint.
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Other

Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Car Travel

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what you can do to reduce emissions when you are traveling in your car.
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State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

Seco: Environmental Pollutants From Electricity Production [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Facts about some major environmental pollutants produced by power plants, and what consumers can do to lower the carbon footprint from their energy use.
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Breathing Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Breathing Earth layers data about rates of carbon dioxide emission along with birth and death rates onto a map of the world in a real-time simulation of one of the principal greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, CO2.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: The Lifestyle Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a three-week project that has young scholars explore and assess their personal lifestyle and how their habits impact on the environment. In the process, they learn that they too have a responsibility to minimize any negative...
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Other

Carbon Detectives: Find Out About Climate Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about climate change with video clips and interactive animations.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Environment for Kids: Global Warming

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about global warming and changes in the Earth's climate. What are some causes? Teach greenhouse gasses and carbon footprint.
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Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Climate Science Info Zone

For Students 9th - 10th
Media-rich interactive explores Earth's climate, investigating what might be causing the climate to change and how to prepare for it in the future.

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