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Game Board, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Lesson Plan - How Do Humans Impact The Production Of Greenhouse Gases?, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

The purpose of this lesson is for students to consider where they currently obtain their energy from and their subsequent impact on the carbon cycle. The goal is to help students understand that humans extract energy from a variety of sources including carbon based resources (e.g. wood, coal and petroleum). Many of the activities and decisions that humans make everyday impact the amount of greenhouses gases (particularly carbon dioxide) that they produce. The lesson begins by having students compare the energy usage and subsequent carbon dioxide production from an incandescent light bulb and a compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb. Then …

Carbon Calculator, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Student Pages - How Much Difference Can A Bulb Make?, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Student Pages - Answer Key, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Lesson Plan - Food Choices And Climate Change, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

Students will review concepts of the energy pyramid focusing on the loss of usable energy as it moves through food chains from producers to consumers. These ideas will then be used to explain pricing variations relative to vegetables and meats. Because more land is required to support a pound of animal vs. a pound of plants and there are limits to land that can be used for agriculture, the importance of food choice will be explored. As a concluding activity, students will calculate the distance that food ingredients for a standard lunch. In this way, students will also account for …

Powerpoint - Food Choices And Energy, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Student Pages - Google Earth, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Student Pages - Google Earth - Answer Key, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Student Pages - Maps, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Student Pages - Maps - Answer Key, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Lesson Plan - Powering Our City: Exploring Renewable Energy Sources, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

The goal of this lesson is for students to explore their greenhouse gas emissions and potential alternative energy sources. Using an online simulation, students explore the economic and environmental impacts of these different sources and recognize that no single alternative energy source will currently provide enough power for a city. However, by combining power from a number of sources, they can minimize the impact on the environment. Students will also discuss the strengths and limitations of this simulation. Finally students will discuss what alternative energy sources might be most viable in their own area.

Powerpoint - Impact Of Trees, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Reading - Renewable Energy, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Student Pages - Powering Our City: Exploring Sources Of Energy, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Lesson Plan - Climate Change And The Ecosystem Services Model, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

Students will learn about the process and importance of carbon sequestration by trees. In this process, excess carbon is removed from the carbon cycle by trees. Next, students engage in a series of review activities in which they recall the major concepts that were covered throughout the climate change module and connect them in groups to the lenses/aspects/parts of the Ecosystems Services Model as described in Lesson 6 of Module 1. Students will also participate in a round robin to discuss and explain the reasoning behind why they categorized these concepts the way they did to other groups.

Reading - Carbon Sequestration, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Host Q&A, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Student Pages - Climate Change And The Ecosystem Services Model, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Lesson Plan - Performing Personal Energy Audits And Creating A School Wide Action Plan, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

In this lesson, students will use their knowledge about major and alternative sources of energy to create a public service announcement (PSA) that makes a convincing argument for increasing their community’s use of alternative energy sources. In constructing the argument, students must refer to specific scientifically-based evidence and facts that support their claims about alternative sources. The main point of this lesson is to highlight how the understanding science and envisioning possibilities steps of the action plan process can be utilized to take action. After completing their PSA, students will present their work to the class

Rubric, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Student Pages - Public Service Announcement (Psa) Worksheet, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 03: Energy & Climate Change

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Temperature Scale Influence On Perceptions Of Climate Risk, Chelsea Spaman

Honors Theses

This study explored how the use of the temperature scales Fahrenheit and Celsius in climate science communication affects climate change concern. The study specifically targeted Americans due to their familiarity with the Fahrenheit scale, which is not the primary temperature scale used in scientific communication. The study employed a survey, in which the anonymous participants read a short introduction about climate change and temperature rise and then answered a series of questions regarding levels of climate change concern. These questions covered concerns about climate change in general and its potential to harm individual survey participants, flora and fauna, future generations, …

Powerpoint - Acting On Urban Ecology, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 01: Introduction to Urban Ecology

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Student Handout - Action In Urban Ecology, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 01: Introduction to Urban Ecology

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Ecosystem Structure And Function_Answer Key, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 01: Introduction to Urban Ecology

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Action In Urban Ecology - Action Plan Process, Center For Urban Resilience

Module 01: Introduction to Urban Ecology

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Increasing Soil Carbon With Rapid Regenerative Agriculture, Nash Leef, Rachel Gerdes, Trevor Kohrs

Environmental Engagement in the Community (ENVR 319): Student Projects

Environmental Engagement in the Community projects, spring 2021

Poster titled Increasing Soil Carbon with Rapid Regenerative Agriculture with client City of Lincoln, Nebraska (Frank Uhlarik).

Community Crops Composting Project, Kelly Emery, Tess Foxall

Environmental Engagement in the Community (ENVR 319): Student Projects

Environmental Engagement in the Community Projects, spring 2021

Poster titled Community Crops Composting Project with client Community Crops (Amy Gerdes).

Net-Zero Affordable Housing, Nash Kelly, Calee Martin, Morgan Davis

Environmental Engagement in the Community (ENVR 319): Student Projects

Environmental Engagement in the Community projects, spring 2021

Poster titled Net-Zero Affordable Housing with client City of Lincoln, Nebraska.