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...
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Best Foot Forward: Ecological Footprint Calculator
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.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Climate Science Info Zone
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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Skidmore College: Lifestyle Project
A copy of an article published in the Journal of Geoscience Education. It describes how the Lifestyle Project got started, and how it is used with students to help them develop an awareness of how their daily habits and actions have an...
King's Centre for Visualization in Science
Explaining Climate Change: What Now? Responding to Climate Change
This is the ninth lesson in a series of learning modules on the topic of climate change. It examines what humans can do to lessen the impact of climate change. Students will look at global data for carbon dioxide emissions now and...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Human Impacts on the Environment
Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water. These...
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1 Sky: The Basics of Climate Change
Understand the basics of climate change and how it affects our planet. Learn ways to take action that can impact how our government deals with climate change
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Carbon Detectives: Find Out About Climate Change
Learn about climate change with video clips and interactive animations.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Carbon Lab
An interactive lab simulation demonstrates the effects of increased carbon in the atmosphere and how that increase contributes to climate change. A data table for student records is available for download.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Population Growth, Ecological Footprints, and Overshoot
For this three-part activity, students 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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Urgent Need for Understanding and Implementing Sustainability
Using statistics from a web-based sustainability resource, students investigate the need for improving their own sustainability practices.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Dairy Cows: Ecological 'Hoofprint'
Article discussing research that supports having dairy cows live outside year-round rather than in a barn, as this practice produces a much smaller ecological footprint. (Updated: July 11, 2012)
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Carbon Footprint
An explanation of how a carbon footprint is calculated. Includes graphs comparing countries, sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and individual activities. (Updated: April 5, 2013)
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Carbon Footprint : Carbon Footprint Calculator
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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Carbon Footprint: Co2 Reduction: Green Energy
Carbon Footprint, Ltd. offers an overview of renewable energy and its use will help reduce your carbon footprint.
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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...
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...
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Breathing Earth
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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Environmental Defense Fund: Tips to Fight Global Warming
Read and take action to fight global warming with these 6 tips, complete with links and other climate change resources.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Carbon Footprint Exercise
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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Calculation of Your Personal Carbon Footprint
This worksheet walks the students 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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Resource Usage Project and Journal
Learners pick a resource and track their use of it over the course of one week. Students record their data in a spreadsheet, write a summary of it, and draw conclusions from their usage patterns. A detailed student handout is provided.
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: What Can We Do to Help?
Read about five ways to become a steward of the environment, and to stay involved with conservation.