The below links are resources you will use throughout the course as well additional resources that could be helpful to you. For Lesson 2 you can either download the Living Planet Report or preview it. Either way the page numbers refer to the actual document and not the pdf page numbers. The Glossary contains definitions of terms used throughout the course. The terms are highlighted throughout so you can directly link to the glossary definition.
In lesson 3 you will examine ways individuals and groups can take action to improve well-being while reducing their footprints. Systemic and policy-level changes are also important for lowering the global Ecological Footprint.
This lesson focuses on the following NGSS standard:
MS-ESS3-3.Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.* [Clarification Statement: Examples of the design process include examining human environmental impacts, assessing the kinds of solutions that are feasible, and designing and evaluating solutions that could reduce that impact.
Assignments may include an activity or reading with guiding questions to respond to in your own personal journal, through an online forum, and/or to include in the Lesson 3 Response form, if you are taking this course for credit, which will submitted electronically by Sunday, July 26, 2015.
Note: Page numbers for readings refer to the actual page numbers of the document, not the pdf page numbers.
Read through and complete activities 1 and 2. Then read activity 3.
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Read through and complete activities 1 and 2. Then read activity 3.
**Users of this file may copy, distribute, or make derivative works for noncommercial purposes only. The original document or any derivatives must identify Creative Change Educational Solutions as the author.
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