Ecological Footprint Handouts
Click on a link to open a single document from the training manual.
Section 1: Overview
Section 2: Handouts and Transparencies
1- Human
Needs
2- Sources
and Sinks
3- Land
Use Types
4-7 Conventional
Potato Diagrams
8- Organic
Potato Diagram
NEW: Coffee
Diagrams
9- EF Definition
10- EF
Quiz Excerpts
11- Condensed
Quiz Results
12- Land
Use Definition
13- Renewable
vs. Non-Renewable Resources
14- Overshoot
Definition
15- Sustainability
Definition
16- Population
Trends
17- Global
Distribution of Income
18- Critical
Thinking Graphs
19- Factors
Affecting the EF
20- Population
and Poverty Cycle
21- Food
System A
22- Food
System B
23- Modern
Agriculture Footprints
24- Food
Chart
25- Food
System History
26- Changing
to a Sustainable Food System
27 and 28- Sustainable
Food Policies
Section 3: Connecting the Ecological
Footprint to History
29- Connecting
the EF to History
31-32 Integration
Plan
33- Stipend
Requirements
34- Identifying
EF Connections to Standards
35- Sample EF Activities
36- Sample
Research Activities
37- Lesson
Plan Overview
California State History/Social Studies Standards and the Ecological Footprint
Elementary
School (K-5)
Middle
School (6-8)
High
School (10-12)
Section 4: Lesson Plans
Food
Footprints through Time
Columbian
Exchange
Let
Them Eat Cake (www.facingthefuture.org)
When
the Chips Are Down: GUIDELINES
When the Chips Are Down (www.facingthefuture.org)
Section 5: Reading and Resources
Seeds
of Change Article
Boston
Globe Article
"Hamburger,
French Fries, and a Cola"
Food
Timeline
List
of Resources
FAQs
Frequent
Debates
Eating
Up the Earth
Energy
Footprints
What
about Population?
Evaluation Forms
Pre-test
Post-test
Evaluation
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Lesson
Plans and Sample Student Work
Learn more about integrating the Ecological Footprint into your classroom from K-12 Educators who have attended the “Thinking Critically about Environmental Impacts throughout History” workshop.
Teachers submitted online evaluation forms after using the Footprint in the curriculum. They offered their integration strategies, what standards they addressed, barriers to integration, student reactions, and success stories.
Click a link to download a PDF file with sample lesson plan or student work.
Sample Lesson Plans
1st
Grade
7th
and 8th Grade History
Geography
Natomas High School teacher Serenity Vontroba restructured her geography unit to focus on the Ecological Footprint and the Impact of Human Societies. She has provided a detailed outline of the unit, sample student work, and her observations on student learning and interest.
- UNIT
OUTLINE- Objectives, Lessons, and Observations
- Objective
1- Human Progression from Hunter/Gatherer to
Industrialized Societies
- Objective
2- Calculating Personal Ecological Footprints
- Objective 3- Determining Footprints of Products
- Objective
4- Population and Consumption Trends
- Objective
5- Global Inequity
- Objective 6- Impacts of Globalization
10th
Grade History
11th
Grade History
Economics
AP
Environmental Science
Mary Kahl-Redman, Natomas High School, integrated the footprint throughout 8 units in her class. Click here to see the units she taught and the materials she used.
9-12
Environmental Science
Tish Tablan, Excelsior Education Center, created a unit and her own lesson plans to conclude her environmental science class, summing up all their work in an action plan.
Sample Student Work
When
the Chips Are Down Posters
Students in an AP Environmental Science class at Piedmont High School learned about the social implications of national Ecological Footprints in Facing the Future's activity, “When the Chips Are Down.”
Ecological
Footprint of Transportation- Poster/Research Project
This student from Meg Gorman's Economics class at
San Francisco Waldorf School researched the Ecological
Footprint of transportation throughout history.
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