Lesson Plan
Grades 6-8, 9-12
Watch Your Step!
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Students take an online ecological footprint quiz to determine their resource use and test how changes to their daily actions impact its size.
Students will be able to:
- Calculate their own ecological footprints as a measure of the impact they have on the Earth.
- Identify ways human lifestyles affect the environment and the Earth’s carrying capacity.
- Suggest ways to reduce individual and global ecological footprints.
Features of This Resource
- Students identify ways human lifestyles affect the environment and the Earth’s carrying capacity
- Lesson covers local and global scale of consumption issues
- Students suggest ways to reduce individual and global ecological footprints
How Do I Get This Lesson Plan?
This lesson plan must be purchased as part of a lesson packet or as part of a full curriculum that is available in our store.
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