Climate Change Metaphors . Grant and Littlejohn. 2001. Teach- ing About Climate Change: Cool Schools Tackle Global Warming. Toronto, Ont.: Extensions Green Teacher & Gabriola Have students determine • Island, B.C. New Society how far they travel to Publishers. school each day, then determine the Mussel, Severson-Baker and per of the ‘kilometers litre’ Diggins. 1999. Climate Change family car, city bus or Awareness and Action: A school bus they travel in. Multime- dia Education Kit. Using Drayton Valley, A.B.: Pembina this information, Institute for Appro- priate students calculate how Development. much fuel is used to bring them to and Wetland Metaphors in Project from school every day. Wild. 1993. Canadian Wildlife Students then combine their Fed- eration. Ont. individual fuel use to discover how much fuel is used every in order for Every time people use energy generated them to travel to school. from fossil fuels it creates greenhouse If students use a bicycle, • gases that contribute to climate change. they can determine how It is human activity that is causing the much they save every day. rise in global temperatures and it must If students come on the • be human activity that changes in order city bus, they should divide the fuel used by the to halt the increase. passenger capacity of the bus to determine their fuel use If students come on a school • bus, have them calculate for the bus and for individual cars to determine how much fuel they are saving. References
Climate Change Metaphors . Extensions • Have students determine how far they travel to school each day, then determine the ‘kilometers per litre’ of the family car, city bus or school bus they travel in. Using this information, students calculate how much fuel is used to bring them to and from school every day. Students then combine their individual fuel use to discover how much fuel is used every in order for them to travel to school. • If students use a bicycle, they can determine how much they save every day. • If students come on the city bus, they should divide the fuel used by the passenger capacity of the bus to determine their fuel use • If students come on a school bus, have them calculate for the bus and for individual cars to determine how much fuel they are saving. References Grant and Littlejohn. 2001. Teach- ing About Climate Change: Cool Schools Tackle Global Warming. Toronto, Ont.: Green Teacher & Gabriola Island, B.C. New Society Publishers. Mussel, Severson-Baker and Diggins. 1999. Climate Change Awareness and Action: A Multime- dia Education Kit. Drayton Valley, A.B.: Pembina Institute for Appro- priate Development. Wetland Metaphors in Project Wild. 1993. Canadian Wildlife Fed- eration. Ont. Every time people use energy generated from fossil fuels it creates greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. It is human activity that is causing the rise in global temperatures and it must be human activity that changes in order to halt the increase.
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