Earth and Environmental Science · Week 18 · Climate and Extreme Heat
Semester Reflection: Footprint and Handprint
Students reflect on how their thinking about the environment changed and set a spring goal for a positive handprint.
- Students will
- Students use evidence from the semester to explain how human activity has affected their environment, calculate a simple carbon dioxide footprint for a real or imagined student, and set a goal for a positive handprint that shows how much it would cut.
- SEL skill
- Compare what you used to think with what you think now and set a goal that fits your strengths
- What it looks like
- Students recognize how their thinking and feelings about the environment have changed this semester.
- Content focus
- Semester Reflection: Footprint and Handprint
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is knowing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and how they affect your actions. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-ESS3-6: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle II: People influence natural systems
- Literacy in science: WHST.11-12.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
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- Reading Climate Clues Self-awarenessAnalyzing ice core and tree ring evidence of past climates and noticing the feelings that arise when data points to change.
- Soil Is Alive Self-awarenessInvestigating how water and organisms build soil and reflecting on what helps students put down roots in a new semester.
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