Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint: How Your School Uses Energy Gr. 5-8

Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint: How Your School Uses Energy Gr. 5-8
Author: George Graybill
Publisher: Classroom Complete Press
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre:
ISBN: 1771679956

**This is the chapter slice "How Your School Uses Energy Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint"** Bring climate change to the classroom by teaching students about their school's carbon footprint. Our resource helps students determine their school's carbon footprint and what they can do to make it smaller. Identify fossil fuels used at school and how they make your life more convenient. Brainstorm ways to reduce energy used in your school. Recognize the benefits of adding idle-free zones to your school. Explore events in the history of a slice of bread that caused the emission of greenhouse gases. Calculate the amount of carbon dioxide trees would remove from the atmosphere if they were planted around the perimeter of your school. Complete a project that will lead to a reduced school footprint. Find out how carbon offsets help reduce a school's carbon footprint. 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.

Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8

Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint Gr. 5-8
Author: George Graybill
Publisher: Classroom Complete Press
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1553199324

Bring climate change to the classroom by teaching students about their school's carbon footprint. Our resource helps students determine their school's carbon footprint and what they can do to make it smaller. Identify fossil fuels used at school and how they make your life more convenient. Brainstorm ways to reduce energy used in your school. Recognize the benefits of adding idle-free zones to your school. Explore events in the history of a slice of bread that caused the emission of greenhouse gases. Calculate the amount of carbon dioxide trees would remove from the atmosphere if they were planted around the perimeter of your school. Complete a project that will lead to a reduced school footprint. Find out how carbon offsets help reduce a school's carbon footprint. 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.

Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint: Study Green Gr. 5-8

Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint: Study Green Gr. 5-8
Author: George Graybill
Publisher: Classroom Complete Press
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre:
ISBN: 1771679964

**This is the chapter slice "Study Green Gr. 5-8" from the full lesson plan "Reducing Your School's Carbon Footprint"** Bring climate change to the classroom by teaching students about their school's carbon footprint. Our resource helps students determine their school's carbon footprint and what they can do to make it smaller. Identify fossil fuels used at school and how they make your life more convenient. Brainstorm ways to reduce energy used in your school. Recognize the benefits of adding idle-free zones to your school. Explore events in the history of a slice of bread that caused the emission of greenhouse gases. Calculate the amount of carbon dioxide trees would remove from the atmosphere if they were planted around the perimeter of your school. Complete a project that will lead to a reduced school footprint. Find out how carbon offsets help reduce a school's carbon footprint. 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.

Carbon Footprint Big Book Gr. 5-8

Carbon Footprint Big Book Gr. 5-8
Author: George Graybill
Publisher: Classroom Complete Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1553199340

Students will learn how they can improve the planet with our Carbon Footprint 3-book BUNDLE. Start engaging students in global climate change by personalizing their Own Carbon Footprint. Identify all the ways a kitchen uses energy. Calculate your travel footprint and learn ways to help reduce it. Next, bring climate change to the classroom by teaching students about their School's Carbon Footprint. Recognize the benefits of adding idle-free zones to your school. Find out how carbon offsets help reduce a school's carbon footprint. Finally, encourage students to make a difference on a larger scale by examining their Community's Carbon Footprint. Learn about the heat island effect caused by cities, and how this changes the local climate. Get inspired by reading about some green towns and cities all over the world. Each concept is paired with a carbon footprint calculator. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint At School

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint At School
Author: Jeanne Nagle
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2008-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1404217746

Discusses practical tips and strategies for students who want to reduce the impact of their schools on the environment.

Energy Efficiency and Energy Use in Schools

Energy Efficiency and Energy Use in Schools
Author: Stacey Tabert
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2012-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9783659184826

As the world faces the effects of climate change, countries are confronted with the challenge of how to adjust from a culture of excessive energy consumption and high greenhouse gas emissions to one of minimising their environmental footprint and achieving sustainability. Large-scale renewable energy infrastructure initiatives, such as solar school programs, are being promoted as a way to reduce national greenhouse gas emissions and increase awareness of the need for energy conservation. Unfortunately, little is known about the relationship between installing renewable energy technology on school buildings and the practice of energy saving strategies in schools. This work examines whether installing solar power systems is an effective catalyst for stimulating energy saving strategies in schools by investigating the findings from a mixed-methods study of a solar schools initiative in Australia. The question of whether schools with solar power installations come to view (attitudes) and use (behaviours) energy differently from schools without renewable energy technology is examined. A number of barriers to the implementation of successful solar school programs are a also identified.

Study of the Effects on Student Knowledge and Perceptions of Activities Related to Submetering the 6th Grade Wing of a Middle School, to Displaying the Carbon Footprint, and to Efforts to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gases

Study of the Effects on Student Knowledge and Perceptions of Activities Related to Submetering the 6th Grade Wing of a Middle School, to Displaying the Carbon Footprint, and to Efforts to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gases
Author: Rick Peck
Publisher:
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

The purpose of the study was to determine the effects upon student knowledge and perceptions regarding greenhouse gas emissions as a result of an intervention relying upon the submetering the 6th grade wing of a Middle School, displaying the information regarding electrical consumption and carbon footprint, and reducing the electrical consumption of the wing. The methodology was to compare pre-test and post-test responses of 97 students to an instrument designed to assess knowledge and perceptions. All the students were residents of Loudoun County, Virginia, and of mixed ethnicity. The results demonstrated significant effects in the following areas: knowledge that CO[subscript]2 is a greenhouse gas, that the US, with 5% of world population, emits more than 20% of worldwide CO[subscript]2 emissions, and that about 1 kg of carbon dioxide is emitted for every 1 kWh of electricity produced. Perceptions also changed, the most significant being that students changed from perceiving themselves as ineffective (50% pre-test, 25% post-test), that they believed that they had reduced greenhouse gases, and that they no longer believed that relying on solar energy was the principal action to reduce greenhouse gases. Conclusions: Submetering the 6th grade wing of Seneca Ridge Middle School combined with collective actions of the students caused significant gains in learning and significant shifts in perceptions by students. Recommendations: That other schools consider submetering both to save energy and to increase student learning. That the Departments of Energy and Education consider implementing programs to encourage school design to include metering at discrete levels within a school. Additional Data: Instrument for student completion. (Contains 1 table and 1 exhibit.).

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Author: Bill Gates
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0385546149

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.