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Footprint Calculator
Provided by: Global Footprint Network |Published on: June 17, 2021
Interactive Media Grades 6-8, 9-12, 3-5
Synopsis
- This interactive tool guides students through questions about their daily activities and living conditions to provide an estimate of their carbon emissions.
- Students can see how their activities affect their footprint by changing their answers to gain insight into actions they can take.
Subjects: Science, Social Studies
Authors: Global Footprint Network
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This resource provides insight into the many activities and choices we make each day that require energy, space, and resources.
- Students will see that they can make a difference every day.
Additional Prerequisites
- It would be beneficial for students to have a basic understanding of what an eco-footprint or carbon footprint is and know how to read a bar graph or pie chart.
- Students will see their results in a pie chart, bar graph, in the number of Earths, and in their personal "overshoot" day.
Differentiation
- This is a quick online "quiz" that can be accessed without signing up, and it can be retaken over and over to see the impacts of different choices.
- Other footprint calculators include the Foodprint Calculator by Harvard University, Calculate Your Carbon Footprint by the Nature Conservancy, and Carbon Check by Biointeractive.
- For a lesson plan about carbon footprints, check out The Carbon Footprint of Food.
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Resource Type and Format
All resources can be used for your educational purposes with proper attribution to the content provider.
