The Classroom Carbon Game
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Objective
Students will understand carbon concentrations in the atmosphere using data from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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Activity
Students count their households’ car miles, air miles, natural gas and electricity bill for one period.
The class totals its carbon footprint, measured in pounds of CO2.
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Objective
Students will understand actions that lower carbon concentrations: conservation, renewable energy, and carbon mitigation.
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Activity
Students pledge to educate 5 people outside of their household.
Students set a goal to help mitigate the classroom’s carbon footprint through carbon offsets.
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Objective
Students will understand how carbon mitigation efforts around their home town and the world add up to change.
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Activity
Data from classrooms around the world is aggregated, shared and graphed for comparison. Students can become Carbon Game ambassadors and introduce the game to another school.
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