Learn how to turn an ordinary lesson into a GREEN experiment!
Give your students insight and understanding of the future of science by Going Green! Join us for an exciting day of hands-on activities.
We'll fill the day with opportunities for you to experiment with hands on activities to bring back to your classroom!
Learn how to calculate your carbon footprint. Students collect information about their daily lives, calculate their carbon footprint and compare their results to average carbon footprints around the world! We'll also discuss oil spills, climate change, invasive species and more!
Sample lesson plan:
Experiment with rubberbands to determine one effect of plastic garbage pollution on sea animals.
1. Hook one end of the rubberband around your little finger. Stretch the rubberband across the back of your hand and hook the free end on your thumb.
2. Try to remove the rubberband without touching anything. Seals and fish do not have hands. How can they remove the plastic rings from six-packs of beverages if they get these around their bodies.
Sample lesson on oil spills: In this lesson, students will:
·Explore the causes and effects of events such as oil spills and contaminations. ·They will then experience first-hand the feel of oil spills, determine an environmental problem that affects their community, and develop an "action plan" to minimize the risk to one form of wildlife. ·Finally, they will examine ways in which public and private organizations partner to keep the environment, and its wildlife, healthy.
Workshop agenda:
8:00 Registration & Coffee
8:30 Session 1 - Calculate your carbon footprint 10:00 Session 2 - Oil spills - Cause, effect and solutions - LIVE experiment! Recreate the effects of an oil spill 11:00 - No Fossils in this Fuel - LIVE experiment! 12:00 Lunch (provided) 1:00 Session #3 - Waste & Recycling - Test your recycling sense - hands on activity!
2:00 Invasive Species - Ideas and strategies
3:00 Conclude for the Day
As educators we are one of the first lines of defense in the environmental movement. In a few short years, the upcoming generation will decide the fate of this planet.
Today's students live in a world where environmental issues -- global warming, organic farming, and recycling, to name a few -- exist all around us.
Teaching students to embrace a Green philosophy is exciting!
There are many ways to incorporate green investigations and solutions into your classroom.
Join our workshop and raise your students' awareness of the POWER we have to create lasting change
Did you know.....
· For every ton of paper that is recycled, the following is saved: 7,000 gallons of water; 380 gallons of oil; and enough electricity to power an average house for six months.
· You can run a TV for six hours on the amount of electricity that is saved by recycling one aluminum can.
· By recycling just one glass bottle, you save enough electricity to power a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
· A carbon footprint is the measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide equivalents.
