Ashley R. Singer
Students can begin looking at and researching in provided books at any time during this unit. Students should be looking for any information relevant to themselves. They should be focusing on information about the impact they have on the environment. This information will be useful when it comes time to make a plan for them to live more sustainably.
Now that students have had a chance to talk about renewable resources and the ways they use energy as well as the garbage they create, ask them to represent their current usage graphically. Once all the students have a representation of their own usage, ask them to come up with a plan to use and waste less. This plan should be backed up with information researched out of provided books. Have students make predictions about the data and graphically represent his or her own usage after he or she implements the plans.
