Example of Student Work on Ecological Footprint
Resources, Population, and the Future Through Literature
Guiding Question: How will population and consumption affect the future?
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Some of the Concepts, Standards, and Skills Addressed by this Activity:
- Reflecting on scenarios of the future presented in poems, literature, and films
- Prioritizing needs and wants and debating the role of media in shaping them
- Researching global demographic trends
- Evaluating possible causes and implications of global inequities
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- Creating concept maps of the resources needed to support human needs
- Students diagrams focused on 'sources' (the natural resources that suply all materials, such as petroleum and water) and 'sinks' (the 'receptacles' for our wastes, such as plants that absorb carbon emissions)
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- Using software to calculate students' Ecological Footprint: the amount of resources needed to support
ther lifestyle
- Generating ways to reduce individual footprints
- Writing about desired scenarios for the future and how to bring them about
- Identifying barriers and opportunities for implementing these actions
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