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Description
Carbon Footprints – What’s My Impact on Climate Change is the fourth video in the Keep it Cool Classrooms educational resource, addressing various important climate change aspects. This instructional video explains to students how to measure their carbon footprint using Project Neutral’s carbon footprint calculator. It offers an opportunity to understand how carbon is integrated into our society and daily lives through five categories: home, transportation, air travel, food and waste. Students discover how our carbon footprints can show us areas where we currently have the power to make changes and areas where we lack power and need to reclaim it. After calculating their carbon footprint, students can reflect on the category with the highest emissions and consider the changes they can make to reduce their carbon footprint.
General Assessment
Recommendation of how and where to use it
This video is an excellent tool for students who choose to complete the video series independently. The video presents a step-by-step on how to use the carbon footprint calculator. Once students have calculated their carbon footprint, they can brainstorm actions to reduce it and commit to those actions to create a climate-safe future.
Keep it Cool Classrooms is an educational resource of five videos that tackle a different yet important aspect of climate change. The resource aims to help students build climate literacy and resiliency, understand carbon emissions at a personal, community and global scale, learn coping strategies to deal with heavy climate emotions, and leave with practical tools for taking meaningful climate action.
A brief welcome video introduces students to the content and outlines what they can expect throughout the series. The resource can be completed as a class, or students can complete the lessons individually. The resource provides a student worksheet to jot down notes about the video, each video is approximately 10 minutes in length, with three questions at the end to provoke thoughtful class or small group discussion.
Relevant Curriculum Units
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- British Columbia
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- Grade 11
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- Science
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- Science for Citizenship 11: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally
- Grade 12
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- Science
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- Specialized Science 12: Climate change impacts biodiversity and ecosystem health
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Northwest Territories
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- Grade 10
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- Science
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- Experiential Science 10: Climatology and Meteorology
- Grade 11
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- Science
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- Science for Citizenship 11: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
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- Grade 7
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- Science & Technology
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- Earth and Space Systems: Heat in the Environment
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- Science
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- Science (Academic):Earth and Space Science: Climate Change
- Yukon Territory
- Step 2Select a grade level
- Grade 11
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- Science
- Step 4Relevant matches
- Science for Citizenship 11: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally
- Grade 12
- Step 3Select a subject
- Science
- Step 4Relevant matches
- Specialized Science 12: Climate change impacts biodiversity and ecosystem health
Themes Addressed
Air, Atmosphere & Climate (1)
- Climate Change
Citizenship (1)
- Ecological Footprint
