Through a role-playing game, students discover the inequalities between countries with respect to wealth and greenhouse gas emissions.
Through documentary research and / or an artwork / ar- tistic performance, students learn about the cultural importance of the ocean and cryosphere for human populations across history.
The students realise that there are many solutions to deal with climate change, either through adaptation or mitigation, and that many people and organisations are already taking action.
The students use a carbon footprint calculator to assess their carbon footprint and discuss what they can do to reduce it.
The students discuss topics that raise the issue of climate justice.
Through a role-playing game, students discover the inequalities between countries with respect to wealth and greenhouse gas emissions.
The students realise that there are many solutions to deal with climate change, either through adaptation or mitigation, and that many people and organisations are already taking action.
In early 2021, 80 Washington citizens from all walks of life gathered virtually to learn from 40 presenters to make recommendations to the Washington state legislature about how to mitigate climate change in our state. Specifically, the Assembly addressed was:How can Washington State equitably design and implement climate mitigation strategies while strengthening communities disproportionately impacted by climate change across the State?This series uses videos of the Assembly speakers to help teachers increase their climate change background knowledge, explore teaching resources and consider ways to bring this learning to students. Each session of the series includes 1 - 3 related recorded presentations from the Climate Assembly, plus accompanying materials, and activities.
This activity allows students to examine graphs of sea level rise data as well as global temperature data. They calculate amounts and rates of sea level rise for various time periods and answer questions discussing the data. They then compare the sea level rise trends to those in a graph of temperature data.
Recycling is important! Wednesday is recycling day, licensed by CC by 2.0, is adopted byHyungji Yang from photo by Kevin Dooley. Dooley, K. (2009, October 14). Wednesday is Recycling Day. Flickr. Retrieved November 20, 2021, from https://www.flickr.com/photos/12836528@N00/4011467596.
In this course, we explore how new mobility systems can be leveraged to promote equity, improve health outcomes, and increase accessibility. Lectures by transportation professors from Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the United States are supplemented with interviews with preeminent entrepreneurs, city planners, community development experts, and mobility justice advocates.
Topics covered include land use and urban form; new mobility business models, pricing, policy, technology, and data; the importance of designing new mobility systems for equity, health, and the environment; and racial justice within the transportation field.
This course is part of the Open Learning Library, which is free to use. You have the option to sign up and enroll in the course if you want to track your progress, or you can view and use all the materials without enrolling.
This Reference Guide will provide the information you need for planting your pollinator garden box, maintenance on your mason bee house, suggestions for your Bee A Freind To Pollinators family event, and links for all of our lesson plans!
Your neighborhood Whole Foods Market Southern Region believes that Libraries Need Bees Too! Through this grant, we hope to help you make small changes to improve pollinator habitats and promote even bigger changes in your community while supporting pollinator literacy. We’ve provided the tools that you need to create your own Bee A Friend to Pollinators Community Event this year. Read on to learn more!
In this activity, students conduct a life cycle assessment of energy used and produced in ethanol production, and a life cycle assessment of carbon dioxide used and produced in ethanol production.
This non-fiction favorite explains all about the honey bee. From egg to bee and everything in between, Micucci answers questions for young readers about honey production, bee dancing, and beekeeping practices. Learn what the bees are doing around the world and what bees have done throughout history! Lexile Level: IG910L Guided Reading Level: N Genre: Nonfiction
The Lifestyle Project is a way for students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles. It is a three-week exercise for students to reduce their impact on the environment by changing the way in which they live from day to day. The project has fairly rigid parameters, allowing students to achieve a gradual but definitive change in their everyday habits. Students choose three categories from a list of six: heat, garbage, electricity and water, driving, eating, and activism. For each category the rules are clearly defined, such as turning down the heat three degrees or eliminating the use of the car. Each week the project becomes more rigorous, because students will have to meet the requirements more frequently. They write about their experiences in journals, which are incredibly insightful, illustrating just how profoundly the project affects them.
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The project is used in two courses, both with the theme of understanding the environmental implications of our use of energy, exploring personal energy use, and learning about the types of energy available to Canadians. One is a face-to-face course for Education majors, the other is an on-line course available to all upper-level (3rd and 4th year) students.
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Students take what they are learning in an introduction to environmental studies course and through a series of writing assignments, they can explore and choose an array of potential approaches to personal and social change.
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How can we show the ways our society prioritizes environmental issues? Life on Land, Life below water, Clean Water and Sanitation, and Climate Action .... Do surrounding communities prioritize the solving of environmental issues differently? How do communities unite individuals to be part of the solution to these environmental problems?
This project relates to Ecology Standards and Literacy Goals. I have combined several different levels of this project so that the activity can be adapted for different levels. I have used the activity primarily with High School students and introductory-level biology with college/university students. The content could also be adapted for middle and elementary students. I would choose a book for the students on these lower levels but that is also an option at the higher levels as well.