SUSTAIN DCSD

Resources

Student Resources - Calculate Your Environmental Footprint

Wether you are back in the classroom, hybrid or e-learning, these calculators will help your students find their impact on the environment. Use the results to build critical thinking skills by having students analyze their global impact and synthesize ways that they can positively impact the planet.

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Early Elementary:

Kids Calculator by Park City Green

A simple 10 question quiz gives tips on resource conservation and compares overall scores to other kids scores. Early readers can complete independently.

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Upper Elementary, Middle & High School:

Ecological Footprint by Global Footprint Network

Students answer questions about their diet, homes & travel to see how many planet Earths are necessary if everyone on Earth had the same footprint.

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Middle & High School:

Carbon Footprint Calculator by Conservation.org

Students answer questions about their homes, vehicles and travel to see how many trees it would take to offset their carbon footprint.

Energy resources designed to bring FUN to your virtual classroom!

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For the Elementary Classroom:

Energy Kids offers engaging online activities including:

- Puzzles

- Riddles

- Virtual Experiments

- Virtual Field Trips

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For the Middle School Classroom:

NASA knows how to make learning fun! Play games while learning about renewable energy and conservation.

-Power Up! - create enough energy to run a town

-OFFSET - Create a carbon neutral town in the game

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For the High School Classroom

PBS NOVA brings your students a virtual design challenge where they will use renewable energy to:

Green up the Las Vegas Strip

Decrease energy use in LA

Increase renewable energy production in Boulder

WASTE.......WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR WASTE

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Elementary Level

This musical clip shows the resources a strawberry uses from farming, transportation, marketing, home and eventually to the trash. An impactful intro for any food waste discussion!

The Life of a Strawberry 1 min

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Secondary Level

These video clips show how landfills and recycling processes work:

What does the process of recycling e-waste look like? 4 min

Single Stream Recycling - Tour a Material Recovery Facility 5 min

How Landfills Work - Waste Management 3 min

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Any Age

Massive Waves of Garbage - the worlds 10 largest dumps - 11 min.

How to reduce your waste 2 min.

BECOME AN ECO SCHOOL IN 2022

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In 2008, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) became the Eco-Schools host for K–12 schools in the United States. The Eco-Schools website contains excellent resources for greening a school. Make your 2021 a seven-step effort:

Eco-Schools Committee
Environmental review
Action plan
Monitoring and evaluation
Curriculum work
Informing and involving
Eco-code (a mission statement)

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SUSTAINABILITY WEBSITE!

Check out the DCSD Sustainability website for resources, tips, project examples, standards alignments, grants and more!

- Resources for student sustainability projects

- Grade-level teaching resources aligned to the 2020 Colorado Academic Standards

- Photos of school projects across the district

- Community partner organization information

- Operations information - building mods, energy savings, recycle programs and more

- Past newsletters

- Forum and chat

Click here to visit the DCSD Sustainability Website!

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DCSD OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Beth Church

Sustainability Coordinator

bachurch@dcsdk12.org

Kim Rankin

Sustainability Learning Specialist

Krankin@dcsdk12.org

Email: sustainability@dcsdk12.org
Website: https://www.dcsdk12.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=220484&pageId=5755442
Location: 2806 U.S. 85, Castle Rock, CO, USA
Phone: 303-387-0451
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sustain.dcsd

SUSTAIN DCSD

Resources

Student Resources - Calculate Your Environmental Footprint

Early Elementary:

Upper Elementary, Middle & High School:

Middle & High School:

For the Elementary Classroom:

For the Middle School Classroom:

For the High School Classroom

Elementary Level

Secondary Level

Any Age

SUSTAINABILITY WEBSITE!

DCSD OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY

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Communicate quickly and effectively with interactive newsletters.

SUSTAIN DCSD

Resources

Student Resources - Calculate Your Environmental Footprint

Early Elementary:

Upper Elementary, Middle & High School:

Middle & High School:

Energy resources designed to bring FUN to your virtual classroom! Energy resources designed to bring FUN to your virtual classroom!

For the Elementary Classroom:

For the Middle School Classroom:

For the High School Classroom

WASTE.......WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR WASTE WASTE.......WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR WASTE

Elementary Level

Secondary Level

Any Age

SUSTAINABILITY WEBSITE!

DCSD OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Created with

Communicate quickly and effectively with interactive newsletters.

Energy resources designed to bring FUN to your virtual classroom!

WASTE.......WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR WASTE