Energy Sciences

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.04.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. Content Objectives
  3. Teaching Strategies
  4. Teaching Activities
  5. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  6. Teacher Resources
  7. Bibliography
  8. Endnotes

Assessing Chicago's Carbon Footprint One Step at a Time

Taissa Leann Lau

Published September 2019

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Endnotes

  1. Chicago Climate Action Plan, 2008; pp. 5-6
  2. Cook et al, 2013, p. 1
  3. Duncan et. al, 2017, p. 55
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  11. U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2018
  12.  U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2018
  13. Lewis, 2007, p. 11
  14. Dhar, Michael. "How Do Solar Panels Work?" LiveScience. December 06, 2017. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.livescience.com/41995-how-do-solar-panels-work.html.
  15. Lewis, 2007, p. 9
  16. David Biello, "How Wind Turbines Affect Your (Very) Local Weather," Scientific American, October 04, 2010, accessed July 14, 2019, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wind-turbines-affect-temperature/.
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  21. MacKay, 2013, p. 6
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  23. Yergin, 2012, pp. 443-447
  24. Duncan et. al, 2017, pp. 212-213
  25. U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2018
  26. Duncan et. al, 2017, p. 211
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  28. Plastrik, 2018, pp. 32-33
  29. Douglas W. Duncan and Eric A. Morrissey, The Concept of Geologic Carbon Sequestration, PDF, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey, March 2011.
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  31. Bernstein et al., 2008, p. 4
  32. Wuebbles, Donald J., Katharine Hayhoe, and Julia Parzen. "Introduction: Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Chicago and the Great Lakes." Journal of Great Lakes Research 36 (July 1, 2010): 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2009.09.009.
  33. Wuebbles, Donald J., Katharine Hayhoe, and Julia Parzen. "Introduction: Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Chicago and the Great Lakes." Journal of Great Lakes Research 36 (July 1, 2010): 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2009.09.009.
  34. "How Does "Bad" Ozone Affect Human Health and the Environment?" How Does "Bad" Ozone Affect Human Health and the Environment? – Rabbit Air, 2012, , accessed July 15, 2019, https://www.rabbitair.com/pages/how-does-bad-ozone-affect-human-health-and-the-environment.
  35. Wuebbles, Donald J., Katharine Hayhoe, and Julia Parzen. "Introduction: Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Chicago and the Great Lakes." Journal of Great Lakes Research 36 (July 1, 2010): 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2009.09.009.
  36. Chicago Climate Action Plan. PDF. Chicago: Chicago Climate Task Force, 2008.

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