Elementary – Our Environmental Footprint - Transportation Situation
This resource uses active learning to teach young children concepts associated with understanding their ecological footprint. Students explore how people move around their community and consider how travel choices may impact the environment.
Middle Years - Getting to School the Green Way
In this hands-on activity students conduct a class survey to identify modes of transport to school and use this information with Google Maps to calculate distance and duration of various routes and travel methods. As pupils compare options such as walking or driving, they will develop their understanding of how active transportation choices can support a healthier planet and healthier people.
Middle/Secondary – LSF’s No Idling Action Toolkit
After learning about the negative effects of vehicle idling, students monitor traffic at their school to determine if idling is an important local issue. Students analyze their data and assuming idling is an issue, document their findings through movie shorts or a photography project in an effort to educate the school community and help bring about behavioural change. Once projects are ready to go, students organize a showing of their work and later try to determine the effectiveness of their message on their audience. (Bilingual)