High School Curriculum Launch A Success
Thank you to all of the educators who attended Saturday’s My Carbon Footprint High School Curriculum launch. It was great to see how excited the participants were to receive new resources to support climate change education in their classrooms, and we can’t wait to hear how the curriculum is used with students.
During the workshop, educators not only participated in inquiry-based activities from the curriculum, they also had a chance to discuss and share potential modifications they plan to make when implementing the lessons with their students. Here are a few ideas to get you started, but we hope that there will be many more in the weeks to come.
Ideas for Carbon Cycle Jenga
- Instead of painting the game pieces, label them with words.
- Have students create their own game cards.
- Have students play the game at the start and end of a unit about the carbon cycle to see how their approach to the activity changes.
Ideas for Acids and Bases: Ocean Acidification
- Tie in images of changes in ocean pH with a discussion about currents.
- Add a graphing component to this lesson.
- Link this lesson with the lesson Scientific Modeling
Ideas for Hydroelectric Power
- Have students create both wind turbines and water turbines to compare and contrast which design works best in the different scenarios.
- Use small pieces of a plastic straw to anchor the dowel on the sink while still allowing it to spin
We hope that you find the My Carbon Footprint High School Curriculum a useful resource, and we also hope that you’ll share your experiences using the curriculum with other educators.
Thank you again to all of the dedicated teachers who are working so hard to educate the next generation about climate change.
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