Small Feet, Big Footprints.
Let’s find out how our lives contribute to warming up the atmosphere!
The first web address allows you to input your energy use in terms of a yearly amount. You may need help from mum and dad to accurately calculate your family’s global footprint. A quick look at the last electricity bill will tell you how many kilowatts your household used. Then calculate your use on a yearly basis. Similar calculations can be made with household waste etc. How many tonnes of carbon did your household contribute to the atmosphere?
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/carboncops/calculator.htm
The future climate calculator gives you the option of calculating your households carbon emissions and a businesses’ carbon emissions if mum or dad own a business.
http://calculator.futureclimate.com.au/
Do you arrive at the same carbon emissions output when you use both calculators?
So what does this mean for our planet?
Have a look at what is happening to the coral reefs around Lord Howe Island.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/03/24/2854581.htm?topic=enviro
Can your family reduce its global footprint by decreasing the total amount of carbon emissions ?
How do you think you could work together to slow down global warming?
Make a list of ten ideas that you could do to help our planet.
Share these ideas with your class and make a global emissions idea wall chart.