How Can We Decrease Our Impact on the Earth's Climate at our School? | CEEE

How Can We Decrease Our Impact on the Earth's Climate at our School? In this design challenge lesson students explore the Denver Public School District's solid waste plan and discuss how their school can save or decrease emissions by reducing solid waste at our school. Context for Use This is the first lesson in the Climate Resiliency Education Design Challenge Unit. These design challenges are meant to follow the middle or high school Climate Resiliency Education units and to have students come up with real world solutions. A large truck dumps trash into a landfill. Resource Type Lesson Design Challenge Action Project Topics Colorado-Based Climate Change Community Resilience & Climate Action Climate and Weather Atmospheric Science Energy Balance Earth's Systems Community-focused Middle School High School Instructional Time 45 minutes NGSS Disciplinary Core Idea(s) ESS3C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems ETS1B: Developing Possible Solutions ETS1C: Optimizing the Design Solution Published Date April 7, 2018 Goals Header What Students Will Do Students will come up with a plan to reduce their school's solid waste. Teaching Materials Climate Resiliency DC1 - Teacher Guide File Climate Resiliency DC1 - Teacher Guide.pdf Climate Resiliency DC1 - Teacher Guide Climate Resiliency DC1 - Student Activity Sheet File Climate Resiliency DC1 - Student Activity Sheet.pdf Climate Resiliency DC1 - Student Activity Sheet Climate Resiliency DC1 - Slides File Climate Resiliency DC1 - Slides.pptx Climate Resiliency DC1 - Slides Description (10 minutes) Video: Watch CNN's Colorado is using piles of rotten food for fuel video and discuss Notice and Wonderings. (10 minutes) Sharing Initial Ideas Discussion: Generate ideas for this lesson based while looking at the DPS key strategies slide. (15 minutes) Introduce DPS solid waste plan and generate questions. (10 minutes) Categorize and prioritize the questions in order of importance. Similar Resources How Does Our School Food System Create Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Design Challenge 2