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    Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8
    Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8
    Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8
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    Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8

    By George Graybill

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    Engage students in global climate change by personalizing their own carbon footprint. Our resource introduces students to the effects of global climate change and its human-related causes. Start with a detailed look at the greenhouse effect. Identify all the ways a kitchen uses energy. Break down the steps involved with farm to table and how each step adds to the carbon footprint. Calculate your travel footprint and learn ways to help reduce it. Understand that your carbon footprint doesn't lessen after throwing things out. Look at the bigger picture and calculate how your own carbon footprint fits with the community. Help reduce the carbon footprint by brainstorming ways to make environmentally-friendly rules part of the social contract. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, carbon footprint calculator, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCCP Interactive
    Release dateJan 12, 2009
    ISBN9781553199311
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      Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8 - George Graybill

      REDUCING YOUR OWN CARBON FOOTPRINT

      Climate Change Series

      Written by George Graybill, Ph.D.

      GRADES 5 - 8

      Reading Levels 3 - 4

      Classroom Complete Press

      P.O. Box 19729

      San Diego, CA 92159

      Tel: 1-800-663-3609/Fax: 1-800-663-3608

      Email: [email protected]

      www.classroomcompletepress.com

      ISBN-13: 978-1-55319-476-7

      eISBN: 978-1-55319-931-1

      © 2010

      Permission to Reproduce

      Permission is granted to the individual teacher who purchases one copy of this book to reproduce the student activity material for use in his or her classroom only. Reproduction of these materials for colleagues, an entire school or school system, or for commercial sale is strictly prohibited

      . No part of this publication may be transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities. Printed in Canada. All rights reserved.

      Critical Thinking Skills

      Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint

      Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy

      Contents

      Assessment Rubric

      Reducing Your Own Carbon Footprint

      Teacher Guide

      Our resource has been created for ease of use by both TEACHERS and STUDENTS alike.

      Introduction

      If students only knew the causes and looming effects of global climate change, they may think of it as something for them to worry about rather than to wait until it makes their lives miserable. Here they will find that the antidote to that anxiety is to become a

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