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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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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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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

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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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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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Human Impact

For Students 9th - 10th
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn how we can reduce our carbon footprint by using alternate energy sources.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Patterns in Resource Consumption

For Students 11th - 12th
This collection of three learning modules looks at issues related to resource consumption. It examines theories about how population size affects consumption, the changing patterns of energy consumption, and ways to minimize consumption....