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Go Green: Preserve & Protect Teacher Resources

2009 / 2010 School Year Online Resources For Study And Action

Click on the links below for lesson plans and resources for your classroom. To order additional copies of the Go Green tabloid publication or copies of The Orlando Sentinel electronic or print editions, e-mail nie@orlandosentinel.com

Click here to read Publix Sustainability information to learn how to green your routine.

Click here to download the Go Green Teacher's Guide (PDF). The guide includes five lesson plans and modules and State Standards for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Click on the links below to download interactive lesson plans to be used with electronic editions of The Orlando Sentinel, IWB'S and/or classroom computers.

Lesson 1: Weather Tracking
Lesson 2: Calculating Your Carbon Footprint
Lesson 3: Bags: Paper or Plastic?"

Click here to download dynamic interactive flip charts developed to run with Interactive White Boards.
Lessons were built on Promethean ACTIVboards 2.3MB (If you have difficulty running on SMARTBoard and Mimeo Boards please contact your local school district Digital Education Department for conversion directions)

Click here to download "Climate Change": Connections and Solutions Interdisciplinary Curriculum Guide for Middle School


A complete two week curriculum from - Facing The Future
Grade Level: 6-8
Copyright (c) 2007 Facing the Future


Subject Areas

  • Science
  • Social Studies
  • Mathematics
  • Communications
  • Technology
  • Language Arts
  • Health
  • Business/Finance

Key Concepts:

  • Carbon cycle
  • Carbon dioxide trends
  • Carbon footprint
  • Climate change policy
  • Ecosystems
  • Emissions trading
  • Energy use and conservation
  • Environmental justice
  • Environmental regulations
  • Equity, poverty, and scarcity
  • Global connections
  • Greenhouse effect
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Personal and structural solutions
  • Regional climate impacts
  • Renewable and nonrenewable energy sources
  • Temperature trendsudent Objectives
  • Explain the science behind the greenhouse effect and rising global temperatures
  • Investigate current and historic carbon dioxide trends
  • Understand the impacts of climate change on living communities
  • Assess personal carbon emissions

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