Energy Sciences

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.04.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Objective
  5. Concepts
  6. Strategies
  7. Activities
  8. Lessons
  9. Resources
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography
  12. Appendix Implementing Next Generation Science Standards

It Ain't Easy Being Green

Patricia Moncrief

Published September 2016

Tools for this Unit:

Resources

Student

Books

Amazing Carbon Footprint Facts. New York: Dover Publishing Co. 2010.

Lynas, Mark. Carbon Counter. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2007.

Websites

www.kidskeeptheearthcool.org/funfacts   

www.energystar.gov/gogreenactivities  

www.meetthegreens.pbskids.org/info

www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator  

www.windows2universe.org/earth/climate/carbon_  cycle.html

Teacher

Books

Berners-Lee, Mike. How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2011. 

Gove, Susan E., Kids Get It: Shrinking Our Carbon Footprint Bloomington, IN: Author House. 2010

Hunter, Nick. How Carbon Footprints Work U.K.: Franklin Watts Publishing Company April 2015

Websites

www.concord.org/stem-resources-what-future-earths-climate

www.ecologicalfootprintnetwork.org

www.energystar/gogreenactivities

www.3epa.gov

www.meetthegreens.pbskids.org/info

www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator

www.teachengineering.org/lessons  “What Kind of Carbon Footprint”

www.windows2universe.org/earth/climate/carbon_cycle.html  

“Carbon Cycle Game”

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