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Teach Engineering: What Kind of Footprint? Carbon Footprint Lesson PlanTeach Engineering: What Kind of Footprint? Carbon Footprint Lesson Plan
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Teach Engineering: What Kind of Footprint? Carbon Footprint

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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 the environment.

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environmental engineering, environmental engineering concepts, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, carbon footprint
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5th - 8th
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Science
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