Understanding Ecological Footprints
What is an Ecological Footprint?
Today's challenge is to understand the importance of ecological footprints. Below are five questions with links that will guide you in formulating your answers. Use this document to record your answers.
What is carbon and why is it important for mankind to understand it?
What's the Deal with Carbon?
Carbon Cylcle Game
In The Carbon Cycle Game, you will travel the carbon cycle. Your objective is to get to all the places that carbon is stored along this map.
Greenhouse Effect
Have you ever asked, "What is the Greenhouse Effect?" This is the place to get that question answered.
What is a Carbon Footprint? How can knowing your carbon footprint help the environment?
simpleshow explains the Carbon Footprint
Human Footprint part 1
Describe your Carbon Footprint? How will your choices hurt the environment? What can you change to help planet Earth over time?
Use the Eco Footprint Calculator. Be sure to visit the Eco Campus after your calculator quiz for an interactive experience.
Use Park City - Kid Footprint Caluculator and see how big your footprint is and what you can do to reduce your own emissions of greenhouse gases that lead to climate change.
Zero Footprint Youth Calculator helps you understand how much your daily activities contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. When we understand the effects of our choices, we have the power to do something about them.
Virtual Forest
In the Virtual Forest game, you are a virtual character going through a typical day. You regularly are faced with having to make choices between decisions that are ecologically helpful and ones that are not — you have to make the call.
There are many things you can do to help reduce climate change and its effects on people and the environment. Use this Global Climate Change Kid Calculator to learn about some simple steps you can take to reduce your impact on the planet.
Water Wiz allows you to figure out the water costs of common household items.
Do my food choices matter to the environment?
The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers
The Eat Low Carbon website tests your knowledge of which foods are planet friendly. You'll be presented with pairs of meals. Click on the image of the one that you think has a lower CO2ei score.
The Eat Low Carbon website wants you to know how your meals add up? Move your cursor over these familiar food items to see how they score in grams of CO2ei points.
Food’s Carbon Footprint is the greenhouse gas emissions produced by growing, rearing, farming, processing, transporting, storing, cooking and disposing of the food you eat.
How have elected representatives played a role in the history Earth Day?
Find out more about the history of Earth Day with this timeline including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more.
Read Scholastic's article The History Of Earth Day.