TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Kind of Footprint? Carbon Footprint
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...
Other
Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Green Energy
Carbon Footprint, Ltd. offers an overview of renewable energy and its use will help reduce your carbon footprint.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Calculation of Your Personal Carbon Footprint
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.
Other
Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Recycling
Use this site to see why recycling is so important. Learn how to reduce and reuse products to help lower your carbon footprint.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Carbon Footprint
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...
Other
Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Around Your Home
Learn how to reduce your carbon footprint around your home by reducing your energy usage and heat loss.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Carbon Calculator Activity
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...
Other
Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Car Travel
Learn what you can do to reduce emissions when you are traveling in your car.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Human Impact
In this comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn how we can reduce our carbon footprint by using alternate energy sources.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Patterns in Resource Consumption
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....