Objective:
Students will understand the concept of carbon footprint and learn how to calculate both their personal and school’s carbon footprint.
1.Warm Up:
- Ask students if they have heard of the term “carbon footprint.”
- Briefly explain the concept in simple terms.
- Ask students to give examples of daily activities that produce a carbon footprint (e.g., transportation, electricity use, food consumption).
2. Explanation:
- Show the presentation to the students (online or downloaded version).
- Demonstrate how to calculate a carbon footprint by using one student as an example.
- Then, guide students to estimate the school’s carbon footprint using simple data (e.g., electricity use, number of students, transportation habits).
3. Discussion and Homework
- Discussion: Ask students:
“What can we do to reduce our carbon footprint and our school’s carbon footprint?”
- Encourage students to suggest practical and realistic solutions.
- Homework:
- Students scan the QR code provided in the presentation.
- They calculate their own carbon footprint using the online tool.
- They record their results and bring them back to class for sharing and comparison.
4. Follow-up
- Students create a simple chart comparing their carbon footprint results.
- As a class, they set one collective goal to reduce their footprint (e.g., reduce plastic use for one week).