Link 1 - Garbology
Link 2 - Garbage Dream: Recycling
Link 3 - Garbage Dream Game
If you have time consider looking through the following:
- Student talking about Bottled water
- Read about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Watch some movies about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Monday, March 31, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
Ecological Footprint
Online Activity:
1. You will be taking a quiz to determine your ecological footprint. In this activity the calculation will show you how much land and resources it would take to support your lifestyle. Click here for the Quiz. Start my selecting your country. Answer the questions for the different lifestyle categories, try to use the more detailed questions at the bottom. At the end of the quiz please record in your spiral notebook:
2. If you have time, you can "edit your footprint" to see how different responses might change your total score or "explore scenarios" to see how different choices might impact your score. However, please read the document on the ways we can reduce our carbon footprint. It discusses general ways to be "green" and then how that change can reduce your footprint. Click here for the document.
3. Next explore how your scores compare to averages for your country as well as for other countries, click here for the link. Please read the description before continuing. Select 5 countries, including yours, from the map and record the trends for both ecological footprint and Biocapacity. Also, if the country is more of an ecological creator or debtor. Put your recorded information into your spiral notebook, it should look something like:
Video Links:
1) Ecological Footprint: Do we fit our planet?: ~ 6 minutes. Is a great recap of the class period and activity
2) Human Footprint Movie ~ 10 video segments ~ each close to 10 minutes long. Following two children through their life. It takes a look for an average life span what a person will use, eat, throw away, etc.
1. You will be taking a quiz to determine your ecological footprint. In this activity the calculation will show you how much land and resources it would take to support your lifestyle. Click here for the Quiz. Start my selecting your country. Answer the questions for the different lifestyle categories, try to use the more detailed questions at the bottom. At the end of the quiz please record in your spiral notebook:
2. If you have time, you can "edit your footprint" to see how different responses might change your total score or "explore scenarios" to see how different choices might impact your score. However, please read the document on the ways we can reduce our carbon footprint. It discusses general ways to be "green" and then how that change can reduce your footprint. Click here for the document.
3. Next explore how your scores compare to averages for your country as well as for other countries, click here for the link. Please read the description before continuing. Select 5 countries, including yours, from the map and record the trends for both ecological footprint and Biocapacity. Also, if the country is more of an ecological creator or debtor. Put your recorded information into your spiral notebook, it should look something like:
Video Links:
1) Ecological Footprint: Do we fit our planet?: ~ 6 minutes. Is a great recap of the class period and activity
2) Human Footprint Movie ~ 10 video segments ~ each close to 10 minutes long. Following two children through their life. It takes a look for an average life span what a person will use, eat, throw away, etc.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Welcome!
Click here for a copy of the syllabus
Click here for the instructions to get the Remind 101 alerts
Click here for the lab contract
Click here for the instructions to get the Remind 101 alerts
Click here for the lab contract
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