We Measure
Learning Objectives
- Learn how all human activities make an impact on the environment.
- Learn about ways to measure the environmental impact of products and systems.
- Learn about carbon foot printing as a tool to measure carbon emissions.
- Gain awareness that we can all take actions to reduce our own impact on the environment.
- Explore ways in which you can take action to reduce your carbon footprint.
Lesson Description
Teaching about how we can measure our carbon footprint?
This resource explores how all human activities have an impact on the environment, and looks at how we can measure this impact. It then challenges students to consider how they can take action to reduce their personal carbon footprint and explores how they can measure their progress, and show the impact of their positive climate actions.
The PowerPoint helps students build knowledge about how activities and products impact the environment, considering the lifecycle of a T-shirt and the impact it might have on the land, water, and air in its lifetime. Using an online carbon calculator, they’re asked to consider their own carbon footprint and to think about actions they could take to reduce it, and how they can measure the change.
Members of The Emirates Great Britain SailGP team share insights about how they measure their impact and are taking positive climate action.
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#WeMeasure been designed to support teachers working with students aged 8-14years, but activities can be adapted if working with younger or older students. The materials can be delivered as part of the formal school curriculum, through school assemblies, tutorial time and/or as a cross-curricular enrichment activity.
#Wemeasure enables students to learn about the importance of measuring environmental impact before and after taking action to reduce a carbon footprint. The materials can be integrated into the following National curriculum areas in England:
- Citizenship: Pupils will, meet and talk with people (for example, people who contribute to society through environmental pressure groups or international aid organisations.
- Geography: Pupils will, understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments, and the climate.
- Science: Pupils learn about earth and atmosphere, including the production of carbon dioxide by human activity and the impact on climate.
Whilst the materials meet National Curriculum requirements for schools in England, the materials can be adapted for use elsewhere.
The resourced is designed to support teaching about environmental impacts carbon footprinting.
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