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Planet Connecticut

Description

Students engage in hands-on scientific experiments, explain the carbon cycle, photosynthesis, and respiration and how these apply to the formation and use of fossil fuels, respond to a video on climate change, and analyze how their transportation choices can help reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Students and their families research, analyze, and compare how to reduce greenhouse gas pollution by (1) changing transportation choices, (2) choosing to use vehicles with greater fuel efficiency, or, in the long run, (3) choosing an alternative-fuel vehicle.

Planet Connecticut is flexible enough for a teacher to integrate its activities into their middle school-level science curriculum or for environmental education organizations to use as they work with teachers and students in exploring issues of transportation and the environment. 40 pages

Availability

Lessons: The Planet Connecticut unit can be downloaded from the Planet Connecticut web site. To order a copy phone 1-800-FIND-RIDE (346-3743) or email info@planetconnecticut.org.

Video: The EPA video Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands can be ordered by contacting Karen Scott, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, at (202) 343-9468 or Scott.Karen@epa.gov.

Funded By:

Planet Connecticut is a service of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, the curriculum was written to meet Connecticut Department of Education Science Standards and was written by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.